New York, N.Y. [u. a.]:
Oxford University Press
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2009
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414 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Aulette Root, Judy; Wittner, Judith G.; Blakely, Kristin |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195371119 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Over the past forty years, feminism and gender studies have become global movements and have produced a wide array of empirical findings, bold concepts, and transformative theories. Due to these successes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to comprehend the breadth and complexity of this burgeoning field. Gendered Worlds responds to the growing need for a text that clarifies and synthesizes the multiple strands of gender research in a way that students can understand. In Gendered Worlds, Judy Root Aulette, Judith Wittner, and Kristin Blakely use the sociological imagination to explore gender relations throughout the world. They look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally; examine the impact of globalization on local and everyday life experiences; and identify how local actors re-imagine social possibilities, resist injustice, and work toward change. Integrating theory with empirical studies that are of particular interest to college students--including research on violence, sports, and sexuality--the authors make gender concepts genuinely interesting and accessible. They also demonstrate how students can think critically about gender, both within and beyond the classroom. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: Social Life Is Socially Based and Politically Structured; Gender Is Part of a Network of Social Inequalities; Scholarship Is Political; Three Waves; CHAPTER 2: BODIES AND GENDERS: Metaphors About Bodies in the New World; The Basis of Sexuality Is Not "Either-Or" But "Both-And"; Sexuality is Socially Scripted; Bodies Are Produced Within Society; Erotic Relations Are Historical Relations; Sexuality is Racialized, Race is Sexualized; Embodiment and Intersexuality; A Brief History of Intersex; Intersex as Lived Reality; Intersex Activism Takes Off; Intersex as a Human Rights Issue; CHAPTER 3: SOCIALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER: Doing Gender; Props and Resources for Doing Gender; Opportunity Structures; Power Structures; Relative Numbers; CHAPTER 4: SEXUALITIES: Orgasm and Sexual Politics; Sex Talk; Masturbation; The Racial Subtext of the Sexual Double Standard; Racialized Images of Women's Sexuality; Sex Tourism; Lesbian or Bisexual Chic; Competing Perspectives on Gendered Sexuality; Sexual Scripts; Homophobia; Heterosexism; Pornography; Prostitution; Sexual Rights; CHAPTER 5: EDUCATION: What Difference Does Differential Treatment in Schools Make? Taming Warriors in the Kindergarten Classroom; Medicalizing and Medicating Boys in Schools; Teaching Materials; Math and Science and Gender; Vocational Education; Title IX, No Child Left Behind, and Single-Sex Schools; SAT Scores; International Comparisons on Standardized Tests; Unexpected Connections Between Water and Education; Evaluating Professors; CHAPTER 6: WORK: Who Is in the Paid Workplace? Equal Pay? The Glass Ceiling; Why Is There a Wage Gap Between Women and Men? Subtle Tactics; Climbing the Ladder of Success; Bringing Politics into the Picture; How Can the Gender Gap in Promotion Be Closed? 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; Why Is Women's Work Invisible? Children and Housework; What's Behind the Way People Divide up Housework? WID, WAD, and GAD; CHAPTER 7: FAMILIES: Marriage as a Legal Contract and the Challenge of Gay Rights Activists; History of Marriage in the United States; Marriage Promotion in the United States; Love and Marriage; Widowhood; Motherhood Mystique; Parenting by Fathers; Biology and Parenting; Another Kind of Family Caregiving: Elder Care; International Comparisons of Family Support Programs; The Gendered Economics of Divorce; Challenges of Divorce for Men; Comparing Divorce Laws Among Nations; Making Comparisons; CHAPTER 8: VIOLENCE: Recent Decline in Rape Statistics; Accounting for Rape: Evolutionary Theory, Individual Psychology, and Inequality; Ending Rape; Studies of Domestic Violence; From Universality to Intersectionality; Beyond Criminal Justice: Marginalized Battered Women at the Center; Sexual Violence in Men's Prisons; CHAPTER 9: HEALTH AND ILLNESS: The Gendered Division of Labor; The Health Risks and Benefits of Women's Employment in the West; Poor Women's Health Risks on the Job in Developing Countries; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Abortion in the United States; Beyond Roe v. Wade: The Struggle Continues; Women of Color and Sterilization Abuse; Globalizing Sterilization; CHAPTER 10: POLITICS AND LAW: Voting Rights; The Gender Gap in Voting; Women Elected Officials; What Difference Does It Make? Why So Few Women? Three Models for Reform; Young People in the Criminal Justice System, The War on Drugs; Why Are Men So Much More Likely to Be in Prison? Women in Combat; Women and Men in the Military Today; Gender Harassment in the Military; Why the Hostility Against Women in the Military? Masculinity and Heterosexuality in the Military; Why Are Differences in the Treatment of Women in the Military Important? Be Careful What You Wish For; Women and Peace | |
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