Gendered worlds /
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Author / Creator: | Aulette, Judy Root. |
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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 |
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