The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities / Edition 5

by Joan Z. Spade, Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine

Overview

Accessible, timely, and stimulating, this updated Fifth Edition of The Kaleidoscope of Gender, by Joan Spade and Catherine Valentine, provides comprehensive discussion and analysis of the critical theories, research findings, and applications in gender studies. The metaphor of a kaleidoscope and three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. Focusing on contemporary contributions to gender studies while incorporating frameworks and findings from the classical foundations of the field, this collection of creative and challenging articles by top scholars and activists—twenty new to this edition—explains how the complex, evolving patterns of gender are created and changed by people as they interact at individual, group, and institutional levels of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483379487
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/22/2016
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Joan Z. Spade is Professor Emerita of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. She received her PhD from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; her MA from the University of Rochester; and her BA from the State University of New York at Geneseo. In addition to courses on gender, Joan taught courses on education, family, research methods, and statistics. She published articles on rape culture in college fraternities and on work and family, including women’s and men’s orientations toward work. She has also coedited two books on education and published articles on education, including research on tracking, and gender and education. Joan was active in Sociologists for Women in Society, Eastern Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Association. In addition to visiting children and grandchildren with her significant other, she enjoys RVing, music and the arts, travel, and being outdoors.

Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine is Professor Emerita of sociology at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. She received her PhD from Syracuse University and her BA from the State University of New York at Albany. Kay taught a wide range of courses, such as sociology of gender, senior seminar in sociology, sociology of bodies and emotions, sociology of consumerism, and human sexuality. Her publications include articles on teaching sociology, on women’s bodies and emotions, on gender and qualitative research, and on the sociology of art museums. Kay is coeditor of Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015). She is the founding director of women’s studies at Nazareth College and a longtime member of Sociologists for Women in Society and the American Sociological Association. She has also served as president of the New York State Sociological Association. Kay and her life partner, Paul J. Burgett, University of Rochester vice president and professor of music, are devotees of the arts and world travel.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine
PART I: PRISMS
CHAPTER 1: THE PRISM OF GENDER - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 1. Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism - Barbara J. Risman
Reading 2. What It Means to Be Gendered Me - Betsy Lucal
Reading 3. Reflecting on Intersex: 25 Years of Activism, Mobilization, and Change - Georgiann Davis and Sharon Preves
Reading 4. The Trouble with Testosterone - Robert M. Sapolsky
Reading 5. “I Don't Like Passing as a Straight Woman": Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership - Carla A. Pfeffer
Reading 6. Multiple Genders Among Native Americans - Serena Nanda
CHAPTER 2: THE INTERACTION OF GENDER WITH OTHER SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED PRISMS - Joan Z. Spade
Reading 7. Intersectionality: A Transformative Paradigm in Feminist Theory and Social Justice - Bonnie Thornton Dill and Marla H. Kohlman
Reading 8. “I Was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures": Gender, Difference, and the Inner-City Girl - Nikki Jones
Reading 9. Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender Across Cultural Worlds - Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson
Reading 10. Intersectionality in a Transnational World - Bandana Purkayastha
CHAPTER 3: GENDER AND THE PRISM OF CULTURE - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 11. “It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference - Christine Helliwell
Reading 12. Conceptualizing Thai Genderscapes: Transformation and Continuity in the Thai Sex/Gender System - Dredge Byung'chu Kang
Reading 13. Nocturnal Queers: Rent Boys' Masculinity in Istanbul - Cenk Özbay
Reading 14. Accra Turns Lives Around: Female Migrant Traders and Their Empowerment Experiences in Accra, Ghana - Charlotte Wrigley-Asante
Reading 15. Gender and Power - Maria Alexandra Lepowsky
PART II: PATTERNS
CHAPTER 4: LEARNING AND DOING GENDER - Joan Z. Spade
Reading 16. The Gender Binary Meets the Gender Variant Child: Parents' Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance - Elizabeth P. Rahilly
Reading 17. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela Musto
Reading 18. Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters - Janice McCabe, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Daniel Tope
Reading 19. What Gender Is Science? - Maria Charles
Reading 20. “Barbie Dolls” on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women’s Rugby - Matthew B. Ezzell
CHAPTER 5: BUYING AND SELLING GENDER - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 21. The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers - Adie Nelson
Reading 22. Performing Third World Poverty: Racialized Femininities in Sex Work - Kimberly Hoang
Reading 23. Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class, and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men - Toni Calasanti and Neal King
Reading 24. #RETHINKPINK: Moving Beyond Breast Cancer Awareness - Gayle Sulik
Reading 25. “We Wear No Pants”: Selling the Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials - Kyle Green and Madison Van Oort
CHAPTER 6: TRACING GENDER’S MARK ON BODIES, SEXUALITIES, AND EMOTIONS - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 26. Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador - Erynn Masi De Casanova
Reading 27. Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers - Orna Sasson-Levy
Reading 28. Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone - Erin Hatton and Mary Nell Trautner
Reading 29. “Freedom to” and “Freedom from”: A New Vision for Sex-Positive Politics - Breanne Fahs
Reading 30. “Malu”: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty in Transnational Indonesia - L. Ayu Saraswati
CHAPTER 7: GENDER AT WORK - Joan Z. Spade
Reading 31. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan Acker
Reading 32. Gendered Organizations in the New Economy - Christine L. Williams, Chandra Muller, and Kristine Kilanski
Reading 33. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield
Reading 34. Hard Drives and Glass Ceilings: Gender Stratification in High-Tech Production - Steven C. McKay
Reading 35. (Un)Changing Institutions: Work, Family, and Gender in the New Economy - Amy S. Wharton
Reading 36. Preparing for Parenthood: Gender, Aspirations, and the Reproduction of Labor Market Inequality - Brooke Conroy Bass
CHAPTER 8: GENDER IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS - Joan Z. Spade
Reading 37. Negotiating Courtship: Reconciling Egalitarian Ideals with Traditional Gender Norms - Ellen Lamont
Reading 38. When Dad Stays Home Too: Paternity Leave, Gender and Parenting - Erin M. Rehel
Reading 39. Mothers, Fathers, and “Mathers”: Negotiating a Lesbian Co-parental Identity - Irene Padavic and Jonniann Butterfield
Reading 40. Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians - Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel
Reading 41. Her Support, His Support: Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity - Christin L. Munsch
CHAPTER 9: ENFORCING GENDER - Joan Z. Spade
Reading 42. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong
Reading 43. Separating the Men From the Moms: The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports - Michael A. Messner and Suzel Bozada-Deas
Reading 44. Gendered Homophobia and the Contradictions of Workplace Discrimination for Women in the Building Trades - Amy M. Denissen and Abigail C. Saguy
Reading 45. Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage - Scott Melzer
PART III: POSSIBILITIES
CHAPTER 10: NOTHING IS FOREVER - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 46. Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice - Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutiérrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, and Chikako Takeshita
Reading 47. #FemFuture: Online Revolution - Courtney E. Martin and Vanessa Valenti
Reading 48. Building on “the Edge of Each Other’s Battles”: A Feminist of Color Multidimensional Lens - The Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective
Reading 49. Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change - Andrea Smith
Reading 50. Change Among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena - R. W. Connell
Epilogue: Possibilities
About the Editors

Editorial Reviews

“In a substantial theoretical introduction, Spade and Valentine move their discussion forward by introducing their kaleidoscope metaphor which is comprised of the “prisms” of culture…that intersect to produce patterns of difference and systems of privilege. Because it captures the fluidity and uniqueness of the intricate patterns, the kaleidoscope is a valuable analytical tool. Though it enters a terrain already littered with terminology, this “prismatic” understanding of gender has great potential for transforming current conceptualizations.”

Jennifer Keys

Praise for the Second Edition
"Overall, the organization of the text is accessible, thought-provoking and thorough, and presents a variety of perspectives within an effective organizing framework that, in itself, advances the discussion on gender and offers fruitful directions for ongoing research...This reader offers a wealth of resources to address the multiple ways to look at significant ideas in the study of gender. "

Framingham State College - Julia Zoino-Jeannetti

“I have found Spade and Valentine’s Kaleidoscope of Gender to be the most effective reader that I have used in my undergraduate Sociology of Gender class, and I was delighted to see what promises to be an even better second edition that recently arrived.”

Linda Grant