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Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology

ISBN: 9780072997422 | 0072997427
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/20/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
This United States-focused anthology on gender focuses on women and men and the multiple identities that comprise the lives of individuals across gender. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent a plurality of perspectives and experiences. Eleven part introductions briefly identify important issues in the general eld of study, describe the readings, identify the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.
Prefacexiii
General Introduction1(28)
PART I: IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GENDER
29(80)
... MORE
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son
31(10)
Martin Espada
From Nothing, A Consciousness
41(7)
Helen Zia
The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism
48(15)
Patricia Hill Collins
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today
63(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
``J.A.P.''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating
67(4)
Ruth Atkin
Adrienne Rich
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
71(5)
Peggy Mclntosh
Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws
76(5)
Farida Shaheed
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
81(10)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them or an Us
91(8)
Allan Johnson
Reflections on Global Governance and Transnational Feminist Movements in an Era of Infinite War
99(10)
Rosalind Petchesky
PART II: GENDER SOCIALIZATION
109(46)
The Social Construction of Gender
113(7)
Judith Lorber
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities
120(17)
Michael A. Messner
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
137(5)
Jill Nelson
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
142(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
147(6)
Tommi Avicolli
Growing Up Hidden
153(2)
Linnea Due
PART III: EMBODIMENT
155(57)
Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body
162(11)
Elayne A. Saltzberg
Joan C. Chrisler
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
173(3)
Leslie Marmon Silko
``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African American, Latina, and White Women
176(15)
Becky W. Thompson
Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
191(3)
Brent Staples
Taking It
194(3)
Leonard Kriegel
Do You Remember Me?
197(4)
Barbara Macdonald
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina
201(2)
Christy Haubegger
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation
203(9)
Martha A. Coventry
PART IV: COMMUNICATION
212(45)
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend
215(1)
Pat Parker
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
216(5)
Deborah Tannen
Real Men Don't Cry ... and Other ``Uncool'' Myths
221(5)
Phil W. Petrie
The New Momism
226(13)
Susan J. Douglas
Meredith W. Michaels
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expressions in Hip-Hop
239(9)
Ayana Byrd
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism
248(4)
Shireen Lee
Where Are the Women? The Strange Case of the Missing Feminists. When Was the Last Time You Saw One on TV?
252(5)
Laura Zimmerman
PART V: SEXUALITY
257(42)
How Men Have (a) Sex
264(10)
Jon Stoltenberg
The Myth of the Sexual Athlete
274(5)
Don Sabo
Reproductive Rights: A Disability Rights Issue
279(6)
Marsha Saxton
The Impact of Multiple Marginalization
285(8)
Paula C. Rust
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
293(6)
Audre Lorde
PART VI: FAMILIES
299(47)
The Transformation of Family Life
304(10)
Lillian B. Rubin
Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks
314(7)
Patricia Hill Collins
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood
321(10)
Kathleen Gerson
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response
331(6)
Audre Lorde
I Am a Man
337(4)
Raul E. Ybarra
What Is Marriage For?
341(5)
E. J. Graff
PART VII: EDUCATION
346(49)
Missing in Interaction
354(7)
Myra
David Sadker
``What About the Boys?'' What the Current Debates Tell Us-and Don't Tell Us -- About Boys in School
361(15)
Michael S. Kimmel
Conflict within the Ivory Tower
376(12)
Ruth Sidel
Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School
388(7)
bell hooks
PART VIII: PAID WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT
395(75)
The ``Success'' of Welfare Reform
401(16)
Sharon Hays
Sixty Cents to a Man's Dollar
417(8)
Ann Crittenden
Why Are There No Male Asian Anchormen on TV?
425(5)
Ben Fong-Torres
The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders
430(13)
Barbara Reskin
``Global Woman''
443(10)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Arlie Russell Hochschild
America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery
453(9)
Joy M. Zarembka
The Globetrotting Sneaker
462(8)
Cynthia Enloe
PART IX: VIOLENCE
470(65)
Women, Violence, and Resistance
478(13)
Melanie Kaye
The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls
491(5)
Jan Goodwin
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography
496(3)
Helen Zia
Homophobia in Straight Men
499(2)
Terry A. Kupers
Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Challenge for Community Education
501(10)
Robert L. Allen
How Safe Is America?
511(3)
Desiree Taylor
Wielding Masculinity Inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal
514(10)
Cynthia Enloe
Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity
524(11)
Stephen J. Ducat
PART X: HEALTH AND ILLNESS
535(60)
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention
541(18)
Don Sabo
Health, Social Class and African-American Women
559(16)
Evelyn L. Barbee
Marilyn Little
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities
575(3)
Connie S. Chan
Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers
578(4)
Sandra Steingraber
Does Silencio = Muerte?: Notes on Translating the AIDS Epidemic
582(7)
Dr. Rafael Campo
To Be Poor and Transgender
589(6)
Kai Wright
PART XI: A WORLD THAT IS TRULY HUMAN
595(48)
Statement of Principles
598(1)
The Blow Up ... A Clash of Realities
599(6)
Gloria E. Anzaldua
American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America
605(8)
M. Annette Jaimes
Theresa Halsey
Toward a New Civic Leadership: The Africana Criminal Justice Project
613(8)
Geoff K. Ward
Manning Marable
Organizing for Peace in Israel: Why Israeli Women Want a Peace Movement of Their Own
621(6)
Gila Svirsky
Women's Human Rights: It's about Time!
627(16)
Rita Arditti
Name Index643(17)
Subject Index660

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