Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology
ISBN: 9780073380063 | 0073380067
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/4/2008
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"Reconstructing Gender" is an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent many perspectives and experiences. Eleven part-opening introductions identify important issues in the general field of study, describe the readings, remind the reader about some of the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questi... MORE
| Preface | p. xiii |
| General Introduction | p. 1 |
| It's not Just about Gender | p. 31 |
| The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son | p. 34 |
| From Nothing, a Consciousness | p. 44 |
| The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism | p. 51 |
| Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today | p. 65 |
| "J.A.P."-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating | ... MOREp. 70 |
| Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship | p. 74 |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | p. 78 |
| Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living under Muslim Laws | p. 83 |
| Under and (Inside) Western Eyes: At the Turn of the Century | p. 88 |
| Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us | p. 98 |
| Gender Socialization | p. 107 |
| The Social Construction of Gender | p. 112 |
| Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities | p. 119 |
| Who's the Fairest of Them All? | p. 136 |
| He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy | p. 141 |
| Growing Up Hidden | p. 147 |
| Masculinity as Homophobia | p. 149 |
| Embodiment | p. 156 |
| Making Up Is Hard to Do | p. 165 |
| "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women | p. 186 |
| Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit | p. 201 |
| Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space | p. 204 |
| Taking It | p. 207 |
| I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina | p. 210 |
| The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation | p. 212 |
| Communication | p. 221 |
| For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend | p. 225 |
| Men and Women Are from Earth | p. 226 |
| Real Men Don't Cry... and Other "Uncool" Myths | p. 230 |
| The New Momism | p. 235 |
| Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop | p. 248 |
| Where Are the Women? The Strange Case of the Missing Feminists. When Was the Last Time You Saw One on TV? | p. 257 |
| Sexuality | p. 262 |
| A Pornographic World [What Is Normal?] | p. 270 |
| The Myth of the Sexual Athlete | p. 278 |
| Passing Last Summer | p. 282 |
| The Impact of Multiple Marginalization | p. 289 |
| Families | p. 297 |
| Contemporary Challenges to Black Women's Reproductive Rights | p. 304 |
| Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks | p. 318 |
| Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood | p. 325 |
| Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response | p. 335 |
| I Am a Man | p. 341 |
| What Is Marriage For? | p. 345 |
| Free to Marry, at Last-May 17, 2004 | p. 350 |
| Education | p. 353 |
| Missing in Interaction | p. 362 |
| "What about the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us-and Don't Tell Us-about Boys in School | p. 369 |
| Does Gender Matter? | p. 383 |
| Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School | p. 392 |
| Mentors in Violence Prevention | p. 399 |
| Paid Work and Unemployment | p. 413 |
| The End of Welfare as We Know It: An Overview of the Prwora | p. 421 |
| Sixty Cents to a Man's Dollar | p. 433 |
| Global Woman | p. 441 |
| America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery | p. 451 |
| The Globetrotting Sneaker | p. 461 |
| The Center of Masculine Production: Gay Athletes in Professional Sports | p. 469 |
| Men at War: Vietnam and Agent Orange | p. 475 |
| Fort Bragg: Command | p. 491 |
| Violence at Home and Abroad | p. 496 |
| Women, Violence, and Resistance | p. 504 |
| Eminem's Popularity Is a Major Setback for Girls and Women | p. 517 |
| Pictures of Boyhood | p. 530 |
| Injury, Gender, and Trouble | p. 539 |
| Homophobia in Straight Men | p. 550 |
| The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls | p. 552 |
| How Safe Is America? | p. 557 |
| Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal | p. 560 |
| The Private War of Women Soldiers | p. 569 |
| Health and Illness | p. 577 |
| Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention | p. 585 |
| Health Care Reform-A Woman's Issue | p. 603 |
| Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities | p. 607 |
| Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers | p. 611 |
| Does Silencio = Muerte? Notes on Translating the AIDS Epidemic | p. 615 |
| To Be Poor and Transgender | p. 622 |
| A World that is Truly Human | p. 628 |
| Statement of Principles | p. 631 |
| New Black Man | p. 633 |
| Feminism's Future: Young Feminists of Color Take the Mic | p. 639 |
| Tapping Our Strength | p. 642 |
| The Women's Peace Movement in Israel | p. 650 |
| Women's Human Rights: It's about Time! | p. 654 |
| Name Index | p. 671 |
| Subject Index | p. 686 |
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