Gender Through the Prism of Difference
ISBN: 9780199743025 | 0199743029
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/19/2010
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This is anthology that takes sex and gender as its major organizing theme, but, significantly, looks at these things from a global, transnational perspective. The readings also tie gender to other social identities and inequalities including race, class, sexuality, and nationality. Whilemost sex and gender books are "diverse" in terms of race, class, and sexuality, they are for the most part very U.S.-centered.
Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, ... MORE
Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, ... MORE
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Preface
Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference
I. PERSPECTIVES ON SEX, GENDER, AND DIFFERENCE
1. Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Five Sexes, Revisited
2. Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill, Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
* 3. Toni Calasanti, Kathleen F. Selvin, and Neil King, Ageism and Feminism: From "Et Cetera" to Center
4. Raewyn Connell, Masculinities and Globalization
5. Barbara Ehrenre... MORE
Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
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