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Gender Through The Prism Of Difference
ISBN: 9780195167641 | 0195167643
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/10/2005
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The third edition of Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area--which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints--this book features many articles based on research done elsewhere throughout the world. The editors open this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction that sets the stage for understanding gender as a socially constructed experience. Featuri... MORE
| Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference | |
| Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Difference | |
| The Five Sexes, Revisited | |
| Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism | |
| Bargaining with Patriarchy | |
| Masculinities and Globalization | |
| Global Woman | |
| Antiglobalization Pedagogies and Feminism | |
| BodiesControl and Resistance | ... MORE |
| Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women''s Health | |
| It''s a Big Fat Revolution | |
| Strong and Large Black Women? Exploring Relationships Between Deviant Womanhood and Weight | |
| To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas | |
| Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports in Prison | |
| What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender SystemViolence | |
| Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Common Experiences in Different Countries | |
| Acid Violence and Medical Care Bangladesh: Women''s Activism as Carework | |
| Nationalism, War, and Archaization of Gender Relations in the Balkans | |
| Gender, Class, and Terrorism | |
| SexualitiesSexual Relations, Intimacy, Power | |
| "I couldn''t ever picture myself having sex...": Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity | |
| Male Discretion and Sexual Indiscretion in Working Class Mexico City | |
| Because She Looks Like a Child | |
| The Sex Tourist, The Expatriate, His Ex-Wife, and her "Other": The Politics of Loss, Difference, and DesireSexuality and Identity | |
| The Globalization of Sexual Identities | |
| Becoming 100% Straight | |
| "Americans Have a Different Attitude": Family, Sexuality, and Gender in Filipina American Lives | |
| Identities | |
| Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | |
| The Rights and Wrongs of Identity Politics and Sexual Identities | |
| Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz | |
| Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender Across Cultural Worlds | |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | |
| FamiliesMotherhood, Fatherhood | |
| The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships | |
| Revision and Resistance: The Politics of Native Women''s Motherwork | |
| "I''m Here but I''m There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood | |
| "The Worms are Weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in EgyptWork and Families | |
| Maid or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor | |
| Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment Among Hispanic Women | |
| Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women | |
| What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say About Marriage?VI. Constructing Gender in the Workplace | |
| Gendering the Market: Temporality, Work, and Gender on a National Futures Exchange | |
| Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants | |
| "Their Logic Against Them": Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley | |
| Go Away...But Stay Close Enough | |
| Education and Schools | |
| Naughty by Nature | |
| How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives | |
| Homegr | |
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