The social life of gender. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Raka Ray, Jennifer D. Carlson, Abigail Andrews.
• Authors: Ray, Raka; Carlson, Jennifer; Andrews, Abigail
• Contents: Acknowledgments - Dawn Dow, Katherine Mason; Author Biographies - Katherine Maich, Gowri Vijayakumar; Introduction: Conceptualizing Gender; Chapter 1. Power (Abigail Andrews); Introduction; The Gender Orders of Institutions; Gender Hegemonies; A History of Gender Hegemonies; The Ambiguities of "Progress"; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 2. Position (Abigail Andrews); Introduction; Thinking through Difference: Beyond Universality and Objectivity; Standpoint Theory: A Sociology for Women; From Thinking Gender to Thinking Difference; Beyond Binary Thinking; An Epistemology of Difference; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 3. Representation (Jennifer Carlson); Introduction; Emphasized Femininity; The Power of Images; Imperial Advertising and Commodity Fetishism; Gendered Advertising and the Growth of Industrial Capitalism in the US; Norms of Neoliberalism; How Images Harm; Representing Hegemonic Masculinity; Marginalized Masculinities; Conclusion: Shifting Gendered Norms; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 4. Practice (Jennifer Carlson); Introduction; From Gender Identities to Gender Practices; Gender Accountability; Interrogating the Science of Sexual Difference; Embodiment: Bodies as the Effect of Gender; Doing/Undoing Gender and Sex; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 5. Gendering Sexuality (Oluwakemi M. Balogun & Kimberly Kay Hoang); Introduction; The Development of Human Sexuality as a Field of Inquiry; Early Feminist Interventions: Force versus Consent; Contemporary Debates around Sex Trafficking; The Politics of Sexual Rights: LGBTQ Rights Movement; From Sexuality to Sexualities: Power and Play; Doing Gender, Doing Sexuality; Sexualized Intersections: Sexuality, Race, Class, and Nation; Globalizing Sexualities; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 6. Gendering Crime and Justice (Jennifer Carlson); Introduction; From Violence against Women to Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Violence; Rape Myths; The Social Construction of Victims and Criminals; The Paradox of Women's Violence: Blurring Victimhood and Criminality; The Gender Gap in Violence: Men and Masculinity; Gendering Justice; Undoing Violence, Recognizing Gender; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 7. Gendering Social Reproduction (Dawn Dow & Katherine Mason); Introduction; The Social Organization of Biological Reproduction: Historical and Global Perspectives; Adoption and Fosterage: Decoupling Biological Reproduction from Child-Rearing; Outsourcing Reproduction and Reproducing Inequality; Who is Responsible for Social Reproduction? Historical and Global Perspectives; What Does Reproductive Labor Entail?; Debating Reproductive Labor; The Stalled Revolution: Persisting Gender Differences in Reproductive Labor; The Mommy Wars and the "Opt-Out Revolution"; New Family Forms, New Forms of Social Reproduction? Legal and Technological Innovations; Conclusion; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 8. Gendering Exploitation (Abigail Andrews and Raka Ray); Introduction; Gender Norms and Inequities in Today's Workplace; Occupational Segregation by Sex; The Glass Ceiling and the Glass Escalator; Explaining Sex Segregation at Work; The Gender Wage Gap; Other Forms of Discrimination; Barriers to Union Organizing; Gendering Neoliberal Globalization; Gendered Migration and the Global Care Chain; The Global Factory and the New Feminine Worker; Microfinance, the “Responsible Woman, ” and the Triple Burden of Public Service; Gender Transformations in the Informal Economy; Reconstructing Masculinities on the Margins; The End of Men? Or More Glass Ceiling?; Beyond the Gendered Economy; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 9. Politicizing Gender (Gowri Vijayakumar and Katherine Maich); Introduction; Rethinking the History of Feminism: Waves and Currents; Nineteenth and Early 20th-Century Gender Activism in the United States; Feminisms in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s; The 1980s and 1990s: Critiques of White Feminism, Queer Politics, and Transnational Solidarities; The 2000s and Beyond: Institutionalization, Backlash, and New Directions; Conclusion; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; Chapter 10. Decolonizing Gender (Raka Ray); Introduction; Constructing the Global World Order; The Effects of Struggles around Decolonization; Colonial Positions and the Politics of Knowledge; The Geopolitical Construction of Gender; Contextualizing Our Concepts: Ideas Mediated by Culture; Conclusion; Keywords; Questions; Associated Readings; References - Olawakemi Balogun, Kimberly Hoang;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.3; Sex role; Sexism; Sex differences; Women -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483324425
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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