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Author / Creator:Aulette, Judy Root.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:xvii, 414 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7408702
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Other authors / contributors:Wittner, Judith G.
Blakely, Kristin.
ISBN:9780195371116 (alk. paper)
0195371119 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • A Few More Inconvenient Truths
  • Some Ground Rules for Studying Gender
  • Overarching Theory of Intersectionality
  • Hegemonic Masculinities and Emphasized Femininities
  • Making History
  • Feminist Scholars Seeking Answers
  • Three Waves
  • Problems with the Three Waves
  • African Feminism
  • Plan of the Book
  • 2. Bodies and Genders
  • The Standard Story
  • The Interplay of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Chromosomes, Hormones, and Genes
  • Sexed Bodies in Other Times and Other Places: Believing is Seeing
  • How Many Genders are There? The Evidence from Other Cultures
  • Sexuality and Sexual Orientation: The Gendering of Desire
  • The Basis of Sexuality is Not "Either-Or", but "Both-And"
  • Bodies are Produced within Society
  • Sexuality is Socially Scripted
  • Erotic Relations are Historical Relations
  • Sexuality is Racialized, Race is Sexualized
  • Intersex
  • Embodiment and Intersexuality
  • A Brief History of Intersex
  • Intersex as Lived Reality
  • Intersex Activism Takes off
  • Intersex as a Human Rights Issue
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 3. Socialization
  • The Gender Lenses of Androcentrism, Gender Polarization, and Essentialism
  • Individual Level Theories: Social Roles and Social Learning
  • The Interactionist Theory of Gender: Gender as a Course of Action
  • Doing Gender
  • Props and Resources for Doing Gender
  • Gender Structures: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Opportunity Structures
  • Power Structures
  • Relative Numbers
  • Gendered Organizations
  • Gendered Institutions
  • 4. Sexuality
  • Sex and the City
  • Comparing Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors around the Globe
  • Changing Attitudes toward Sexuality in the U.S.Orgasm and Sexual Politics
  • Masturbation
  • The Racial Subtext of the Double Standard
  • Racialized Images of Women''s Sexuality
  • Sex Tourism
  • What is Your Sexuality?
  • Lesbian or Bisexual Chic
  • Competing Perspectives on Gendered Sexuality
  • Sexual Scripts
  • Violent Scripts
  • Resistance Scripts of The Vagina Monologues
  • Queer Theory
  • Homophobia
  • Heterosexism
  • Sex for Sale
  • Pornography
  • Gendered Porn
  • Feminist Censorship Debate
  • Prostitution
  • Legal Prostitution
  • Feminist Prostitution Debate
  • Sex Trafficking
  • Sexual Rights
  • 5. Education
  • Elementary School Snapshots
  • Gender in the K-12 Classroom
  • What Difference Does Differential Treatment in Schools Make?
  • Taming Warriors in the Kindergarten Classroom
  • Medicalizing and Medicating Boys in Schools
  • Teaching Materials
  • High School
  • Math and Science and Gender
  • Vocational Education
  • Title IX, No Child Left Behind, and Single Sex Schools
  • SAT Scores
  • International Comparisons on Standardized Tests
  • Higher Education and Gender
  • What about the Boys?
  • Global Rates of Illiteracy
  • Unexpected Connections between Water and Education
  • Gender and Teachers
  • Evaluating Professors
  • The Correspondence Principle
  • 6. Work
  • Wal-Mart
  • Paid Work
  • Who is in the Paid Workplace?
  • Equal Pay?
  • The Glass Ceiling
  • The Glass Escalator
  • Emotional Labor
  • Why is There a Wage Gap between Women and Men?
  • Discrimination
  • Subtle Tactics
  • Human Capital Theory
  • Social Structural Explanations of Pay Gap
  • Climbing the Ladder of Success
  • Bringing Politics into the Picture
  • How Can the Gender Gap in Promotion be Closed?
  • Comparable Worth
  • Success Stories of African American Women and the Importance of Families
  • Success Stories in Engineering
  • Retirement
  • When Work Disappears: Masculinity and Homeless Men
  • Feminization of Poverty
  • Unpaid Work through the Life Cycle
  • Why is Women''s Work Invisible?
  • Children and Housework
  • What''s behind the Way People Divide up Housework?
  • Socialization
  • Rational Choice Theory
  • Feminist Theory
  • Globalization and Gender: WID, WAD, and GAD
  • 7. Families
  • Customary Marriage Laws
  • Marriage
  • Marriage as a Legal Contract and the Challenge of Gay Rights Activists
  • History of Marriage in the U.S
  • Marriage Promotion in the U.S
  • Love and Marriage
  • Widowhood
  • Parenting and Caregiving
  • Motherhood Mystique
  • Work and Family in Latino and African American Families
  • Working Mothers and the Mommy Wars
  • Welfare Mothers
  • Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)
  • Parenting by Fathers
  • Men Balancing Work and Family
  • The Fatherhood Responsibility Movement
  • Biology and Parenting
  • Another Kind of Family Caregiving
  • Gendered Styles of Care Work
  • Grandparents and Care Work
  • Balancing Work and Family
  • International Comparisons on F