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The Social Life of Gender de Raka R. Ray

The Social Life of Gender: SAGE Sociological Essentials Series

Editat de Raka R. Ray, Jennifer Dawn Carlson, Abigail L. Andrews
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2018
This book raises questions about gender as an organizing social relation and will develop students' capacity to use gender analysis to interrogate social life more broadly. Bold, concise and intellectually generative, this book is organized around a series of gender-focused questions that span culture, geopolitics, and political economy and that, together, provide students with a succinct, accessible and critical grasp on core debates in the sociology of gender.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781452286976
ISBN-10: 1452286973
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Seria SAGE Sociological Essentials Series

Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

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 U.S.
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

Descriere

The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.