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Autor: Aulette Root, Judy
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CONTENTS
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
A Few More Inconvenient Truths 1
Some Ground Rules for Studying Gender 2
Social Life Is Socially Based and Politically Structured 3
Gender Is Part of a Network of Social Inequalities 3
Scholarship Is Political 3
Overarching Theory of Intersectionality 4
Hegemonic Masculinities and Emphasized Femininities 5
Making History 6
Feminist Scholars Seeking Answers 7
Three Waves 7
Problems with the Three Waves 7
Waves of African Feminism 8
Plan of the Book 9
CHAPTER 2 BODIES AND GENDERS
The Standard Story 16
The Interplay of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 18
Chromosomes, Hormones, and Genes 19
Sexed Bodies in Other Times and Other Places 21
Metaphors About Bodies in the New World 23
How Many Genders Are There? The Evidence from Other Cultures 26
Sexuality and Sexual Orientation: Gendering Desire 29
The Basis of Sexuality Is Not Either-Or But Both-And 29
Sexuality is Socially Scripted 30
Bodies Are Produced Within Society 31
Eron c Relations Are Historical Relations 3 3
Sexuality is Racialized, Race is Sexualized 34
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Intersex 34
Embodiment and Intersexuality 3 5
A Brief History of Intersex 37
Intersex as Lived Reality 38
Intersex Activism Takes Off 40
Intersex as a Human Rights Issue 45
Concluding Thoughts 46
CHAPTER 3 SOCIALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
The Gender Lenses of Androcentrism, Gender Polarization, and Essentialism 49
Individual-Level Theories: Social Roles and Social Learning 50
The Interactionist Theory of Gender: Gender as a Course of Action 53
Doing Gender 55
Props and Resources for Doing Gender 58
Gender Structures: Rosabeth Moss Kanter 60
Opportunity Structures 61
Power Structures 63
Relative Numbers 64
Gendered Organizations: Joan Acker 64
Gendered Institutions 66
CHAPTER 4 SEXUALITIES
Sex and the City 74
Comparing Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Around the Globe 76
Changing Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the United States 77
Orgasm and Sexual Politics 79
Sex Talk 80
Masturbation 81
The Racial Subtext of the Sexual Double Standard 81
Racialized Images of Women s Sexuality 83
Sex Tourism 84
What Is Your Sexuality? 84
Lesbian or Bisexual Chic 86
Competing Perspectives on Gendered Sexuality 87
Sexual Scripts 88
Violent scripts 89
Resistance scripts and the vagina monologues 90
Queer Theory 91
Homophobia 93
Heterosexism 93
Contents vii
Sex for Sale 95
Pornography 95
Gendered porn 96
The feminist censorship debate 97
Prostitution 98
Legal prostitution 99
The feminist prostitution debate 99
Sex trafficking 100
Sexual Rights 102
CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION
Elementary School Snapshots 107
Gender in the K-12 Classroom 108
What Difference Does Differential Treatment in Schools Make? 109
Taming Warriors in the Kindergarten Classroom 109
Medicalizing and Medicating Boys in Schools 110
Teaching Materials 111
High School 112
Math and Science and Gender 113
Vocational Education 115
Title IX, No Child Left Behind, and Single-Sex Schools 115
SAT Scores 117
International Comparisons on Standardized Tests 119
Higher Education and Gender 120
What About the Boys? 123
Global Rates of Illiteracy 125
Unexpected Connections Between Water and Education 125
Gender and Teachers 126
Evaluating Professors 127
The Correspondence Principle 128
CHAPTER 6 WORK
Wal-Mart 134
Paid Work 135
Who Is in the Paid Workplace? 13 5
Equal Pay? 136
The Glass Ceiling 139
The glass escalator 139
Emotional labor 140
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Why Is There a Wage Gap Between Women and Men? 142
Discrimination 142
Subtle tactics 142
Human capital theory 144
Social structural explanations of pay gap 146
Climbing the ladder of success 148
Bringing politics into the picture 149
How Can the Gender Gap in Promotion Be Closed? 150
Comparable worth 151
Success stories of African American women and the importance of families 151
Success stories in engineering 152
Retirement 153
When Work Disappears: Masculinity and Homeless Men 155
Feminization of Poverty 156
Unpaid Work through the Life Cycle 158
Why Is Women s Work Invisible? 160
Children and Housework 161
What s Behind the Way People Divide Up Housework? 162
Socialization 162
Rational choice 162
Feminist theory 163
Globalization and Gender 163
WID, WAD, and GAD 165
CHAPTER 7 FAMILIES
Customary Marriage Laws 171
Marriage 172
Marriage as a Legal Contract and the Challenge of Gay Rights Activists 172
History of Marriage in the United States 173
Marriage Promotion in the United States 175
Love and Marriage 177
Widowhood 178
Parenting and Caregiving 179
Motherhood Mystique 179
Work and family in latino and African American families 180
Working mothers and the mommy wars 180
Welfare mothers 181
Temporary aid to needy families 182
Parenting by Fathers 183
Men balancing work and family 184
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The fatherhood responsibility movement 186
Biology and Parenting 187
Another Kind of Family Caregiving: Elder Care 188
Gendered styles of care work 190
Grandparents and care work 191
Balancing Work and Family 192
International Comparisons of Family Support Programs 194
Divorce 196
The Gendered Economics of Divorce 196
Challenges of Divorce for Men 199
Comparing Divorce Laws Among Nations 200
South African divorce laws 200
Covenant divorce in the united states 201
Repudiation in muslim nations 201
Making Comparisons 202
CHAPTER 8 VIOLENCE
Inhumanities and Human Rights 208
The Gendered Continuum of Violence 209
Some Statistics on Violence 210
Street Harassment: A Geography of Fear 215
Men s Personal Safety and Gendered Violence 220
Rape and Domestic Violence 221
Recent Decline in Rape Statistics 222
Accounting for Rape: Evolutionary Theory, Individual Psychology, and Inequality 223
Darwinian evolution 223
Individual psychology 225
Rape as an outcome of gender inequality 228
Ending Rape 229
The Discovery of Domestic Violence 229
Studies of Domestic Violence 234
From Universality to Intersectionality 238
Beyond Criminal Justice: Marginalized Battered Women at the Center 239
State Violence Against Men 241
Sexual Violence in Men s Prisons 242
Gendered Violence in Conflict Zones 243
Guatemala: A Case Study 245
What Is to Be Done? CEDAW, the International Criminal Court,
and Security Council Resolution 1325 249
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CHAPTER 9 HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Health and Illness as Social Issues 258
Nation and Life Expectancy 258
Gender and Life Expectancy 263
Women s Health 264
The Gendered Division of Labor 264
The Health Risks and Benefits of Women s Employment in the West 265
Poor Women s Health Risks on the Job in Developing Countries 267
Sexual and Reproductive Health 270
Men s Health 271
Masculinity as a Health Risk 272
Masculinity and Heart Disease 273
The Health Care System in the United States Is Structured Along Gender,
Race, and Class Lines 274
Care Work: The Paid or Unpaid, But Often Invisible, Foundation of Health Care 275
Women s Health Movements 277
Abortion in the United States 282
Beyond Roe v. Wade: The Struggle Continues 283
Women of Color and Sterilization Abuse 283
Globalizing Sterilization 286
Gender and the Global AIDS Pandemic 288
Explaining the Women s Epidemic: Structural Violence 289
Fighting Back: Women s Health Movements Around the World 290
CHAPTER 10 POLITICS AND LAW
Affirmative Action in Spanish Politics 300
Politics and Government 301
Voting Rights 302
The Gender Gap in Voting 303
Women Elected Officials 305
What Difference Does It Make? 307
Why So Few Women? 309
Gender and campaigns 311
Three Models for Reform 312
Meritocratic remedies 312
Affirmative action remedies 313
Radical remedies 314
Political Institutions: The Courts and Prisons 315
Young People in the Criminal Justice System 316
Girls, gangs, and gender 316
Contents xi
The War on Drugs 317
Why Are Men So Much More Likely to Be in Prison? 319
Political Institutions: The Military 320
Women in Combat 321
Women and Men in the Military Today 322
Gender Harassment in the Military 323
Why the Hostility Against Women in the Military? 324
Masculinity and Heterosexuality in the Military 325
Why Are Differences in the Treatment of Women in the Military Important? 325
Be Careful What You Wish For 326
Women and Peace 326
What Is Political? 328
CHAPTER 11 MEDIA AND SPORTS
Feminist Ads from Nike 3 34
Mass Media 335
Is Gender on Television Changing? 336
Symbolic annihilation 338
Gender stereotypes 338
Gender in Advertising 339
Men and beer 340
Advertising femininity in three nations 340
Gender ;n Turkish television 340
Gender in /apanese television 342
Gender in u.s. television 343
Films 345
G movies 346
Sexualization of Girls and Women in Media 347
Internet and Gender 349
Media Theory 350
Resisting media 350
Music videos 351
The Spectacle of Sport 354
Sports and Masculinity 355
History of sport and manliness 357
Initiation rites and football 358
Dangers of masculinity 359
Time for a change? 359
Mexican baseball players challenge hegemonic masculinity in sports 360
Sportswomen 361
Title k 362
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International efforts to bring women into sports 363
Barriers to bringing women into sports 364
Women athletes and heterosexism 365
Venus and Mars Play Sports 366
CHAPTER 12 RELIGION
The Promise Keepers 371
What Is a Religion? 372
Importance of religion in the world and in the United States 373
Five big religions 374
Religious Ideas About Gender: Separate and Unequal 375
Islam 376
Hijab 377
Fundamentalisms 381
Muslim fundamentalism 382
Christian fundamentalism 383
Fundamentalist views of masculinity 385
Fundamentalist fathers 385
Evangelical feminists 386
Hindu fundamentalism 387
Women in the Pulpit 388
The DaVinci Code and Ancient Religious Views of Women 390
Religion as a Free Space in Oppressive Cultures 391
Religion as a Base of Resistance 392
Religion in the American civil rights movement 393
Challenging Religion from Within 394
What Difference Would More Gender-Equal Religions Make? 395
Feminist Theoretical Models for Understanding the Complex Relationships
Between Religion and Gender 396
Classical Theory on Religion: Durkheim, Marx, and Weber 397
Index 401
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