Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings: A Feminist Anthology / Edition 1

by Joya Misra, Mahala D. Stewart, Marni Alyson Brown

Overview

This innovative reader contains foundational and cutting-edge articles representing a range of primary feminist research by established and early-career scholars. Editors Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart, and Marni Alyson Brown have carefully selected, edited, and introduced the selections with undergraduate students in mind, and address many key 21^st century approaches to feminist scholarship throughout, including intersectional perspectives, global and transnational perspectives, a focus on transgender, and an emphasis on masculinity. Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings is also supported by a dynamic blog, where the editors connect the readings to current events and related online articles, films, short videos, and podcasts.

Go beyond the text with the Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings blog here: https://gendersexualityreader.wordpress.com/

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506329345
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Joya Misra is a professor of sociology and public policy at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research primarily explores labor market inequality and poverty. She has published in leading journals, including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Social Forces.

Mahala Dyer Stewart is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts. She has been a teaching assistant and instructor for several courses covering gender. She serves as one of the managing editors for Gender & Society, and has successfully directed the journal's use of blogging and social networking to increase circulation, promote awareness of its content, and build a community of readers.

Marni Alyson Brown is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She has been teaching gender for several years and has experience with teacher training programs and undergraduate curriculum development. She has been published in Teaching Sociology, Sociology of Sport, and contributed to the reader Sex Matters. She is engaged in a few writing projects, including a project examining the exploitation of graduate students and adjuncts at colleges and universities as well as a project on student’s attitudes towards the pedagogy of race and gender in the classroom. Furthermore, she is working on a project that explores the everyday intersectional experiences of gay men and women.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
PART I: THEORIZING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
1. Doing Gender - Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman
2. Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations - Cecilia L. Ridgeway
3. Defining Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
4. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Possibility of Change in Gender Relations - Claire Duncanson
5. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression - Jane Ward
6. Globalizing Gender Issues: Many Voices, Different Choices - Christine E. Bose
PART II: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND THE METHODS OF FEMINIST RESEARCH
7. Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities - Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree
8. Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race - Andrew M. Penner and Aliya Saperstein
9. Becoming a “Trusted Outsider”: Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Ethnographic Research - Sandra Meike Bucerius
10. Studying Each Other: On Agency, Constraint, and Positionality in the Field - Tey Meadow
11. The Sociology of Gender in Southern Perspective - Raewyn Connell
PART III: BODIES AND IDENTITY
12. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools - Karin A. Martin
13. Perilous Patches and Pitstaches: Imagined Versus Lived Experiences of Women’s Body Hair Growth - Breanne Fahs
14. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons - Miliann Kang
15. Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders - Tristan S. Bridges
16. Body Modification and Trans Men: The Lived Realities of Gender Transition and Partner Intimacy - Katelynn Bishop
17. Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry - Kimberly Kay Hoang
PART IV: CULTURE AND MEDIA
18. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films - Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak
19. Is He Boyfriend Material? Representation of Males in Teenage Girls’ Magazines - Kirsten B. Firminger
20. Masculinity Dilemmas: Sexuality and Intimacy Talk Among Christians and Goths - Amy C. Wilkins
21. “What Makes a Woman a Woman?” Versus “Our First Lady of Sport”: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the South African Media Coverage of Caster Semenya - Cheryl Cooky, Ranissa Dycus, and Shari L. Dworkin
22. Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants - Oluwakemi M. Balogun
PART V: RELIGION
23. Women of God - Orit Avishai
24. Negotiating Gendered Religious Space: The Particularities of Patriarchy in an African American Mosque - Pamela J. Prickett
25. The Stakes of Gender and Heterosexuality - Melanie Heath
26. Grit, Guts, and Vanilla Beans: Godly Masculinity in the Ex-Gay Movement - Lynne Gerber
27. Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia - Rachel Rinaldo
PART VI: FAMILIES AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS
28. Strength and Respectability: Black Women’s Negotiation of Racialized Gender Ideals and the Role of Daughter–Father Relationships - Maria S. Johnson
29. “How Could You Do This to Me?”: How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Latinas Negotiate Sexual Identity With Their Families - Katie Acosta
30. Gendered Power Relations Among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies - Mignon R. Moore
31. Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism: Negotiating Structure and Agency in Transgender Families - Carla A. Pfeffer
32. Transnational Fathering: Gendered Conflicts, Distant Disciplining and Emotional Gaps - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
PART VII: EDUCATION
33. Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College - Rachel E. Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura Mc Cloud
34. Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools - Simone Ispa-Landa
35. “Not Out to Start a Revolution”: Race, Gender, and Emotional Restraint Among Black University Men - Amy Wilkins
36. “Now Why Do You Want to Know About That?”: Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth - Lorena García
37. “Boys Over Here, Girls Over There”: A Critical Literacy of Binary Gender in Schools - Susan W. Woolley
38. Un/Doing Gender? A Case Study of School Policy and Practice in Zambia - Monisha Bajaj
PART VIII: SPORT
39. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela Musto
40. The Female Signifiant in All-Women’s Amateur Roller Derby - Jennifer Carlson
41. “We’re, Like, a Cute Rugby Team”: How Whiteness and Heterosexuality Shape Women’s Sense of Belonging in Rugby - Anima Adjepong
42. Transgender Inclusion and the Changing Face of Lesbian Softball Leagues - Ann Travers and Jillian Deri
43. “Silver Cups Versus Ice Creams”: Parental Involvement With the Construction of Gender in the Field of Their Son’s Soccer - Inge Claringbould and Johanna Adriaanse
PART IX: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS
44. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan Acker
45. A “Major Career Woman”? How Women Develop Early Expectations About Work - Sarah Damaske
46. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield
47. Hegemonic Masculinity at Work in the Gay Adult Film Industry - Nathaniel B. Burke
48. Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble? - Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell
49. Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Market-Embedded Labor and the Gender Organization of Global Service Work in China - Eileen M. Otis
PART X: VIOLENCE, CRIME, AND INCARCERATION
50. Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse - Heather R. Hlavka
51. Rehabilitating Criminal Selves: Gendered Strategies in Community Corrections - Jessica J. B. Wyse
52. The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity - Victor M. Rios
53. “We’re Like Community”: Collective Identity and Collective Efficacy Among Transgender Women in Prisons for Men - Lori Sexton and Valerie Jenness
54. Gender Violence Revisited: Lessons From Violent Victimization of Transgender Identified Individuals - Daniela Jauk
55. Gendered Violence, Cultural Otherness, and Honour Crimes in Canadian National Logics - Dana M. Olwan
PART XI: POLITICS, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
56. The International Women’s Movement and Women’s Political Representation, 1893–2003 - Pamela Paxton, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jennifer L. Green
57. Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European Union - Mieke Verloo
58. “Don’t Deport Our Daddies”: Gendering State Deportation Practices and Immigrant Organizing - Monisha Das Gupta
59. Brothers and Others: Organizing Masculinity, Disorganizing Workers - Poulami Roychowdhury
60. Patriarchal Accommodations: Women’s Mobility and Policies of Gender Difference From Urban Iran to Migrant Mexico - Abigail Andrews and Nazanin Shahrokni

Editorial Reviews

[Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings] is intersectional, updated, and (for lack of a better term) more hip in what it covers.”

Maura Ryan

I appreciate the ways in which [Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings] addresses intersectional frameworks that include transgender as well as nationality in the discourse. [ . . . ] Most noteworthy is in the inclusion of sexuality in the discussion along with work, social movements, and so forth throughout the extensive and diverse readings in each section.”

Naomi J. Pinion

I particularly appreciate the approach to the ancillary materials [for Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings]. Of specific note, the regularly updated web materials [are] a wonderful resource to both augment readings and to aid in daily outlines/lesson plans.”

Matthew B. Ezzell