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Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology

ISBN: 9780767410021 | 0767410025
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div
Pub. Date: 7/1/1999

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Table of Contents
Prefacexi
About the Contributorsxvii
General Introduction1(20)
PART I: SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF GENDER21(48)
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Toward Black American Empowerment
24(10)
Manning Marable
Asian American Women: Not for Sale
34(7)
Tracy Lai
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son
41(11)
Martin Espada
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today
52(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
``J.A.P.''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating
56(3)
Ruth Atkin
Adrienne Rich
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
59(10)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Bonnie Thornton Dill
PART II: GENDER SOCIALIZATION69(71)
The Social Construction of Gender
73(8)
Judith Lorber
Girls and Boys Together ... but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary School
81(17)
Barrie Thorne
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities
98(17)
Michael A. Messner
Prison of Color
115(6)
Virginia R. Harris
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
121(5)
Tommi Avicolli
Always Running
126(6)
Luis J. Rodriguez
Masculinity as Homophobia
132(8)
Michael S. Kimmel
PART III: EMBODIMENT140(52)
Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body
146(11)
Elayne A. Saltzberg
Joan C. Chrisler
``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women
157(15)
Becky W. Thompson
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
172(3)
Brent Staples
Taking It
175(2)
Leonard Kriegel
Do You Remember Me?
177(4)
Barbara Macdonald
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina
181(2)
Christy Haubegger
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation
183(9)
Martha Coventry
PART IV: COMMUNICATION192(33)
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend
195(1)
Pat Parker
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
196(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
201(5)
Deborah Tannen
Real Men Don't Cry ... and Other ``Uncool'' Myths
206(5)
Phil W. Petrie
Danny
211(6)
Nathan McCall
American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America
217(8)
M. Annette Jaimes
Theresa Halsey
PART V: SEXUALITY225(47)
How Men Have (a) Sex
230(10)
John Stoltenberg
The Myth of the Sexual Athlete
240(4)
Don Sabo
Forbidden Fruit
244(4)
Anne Finger
The Impact of Multiple Marginalization
248(7)
Paula C. Rust
The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood
255(17)
Patricia Hill Collins
PART VI: FAMILIES272(50)
The Transformation of Family Life
276(9)
Lillian B. Rubin
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood
285(10)
Kathleen Gerson
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response
295(6)
Audre Lorde
It's Late at Night, and I'm Screaming at My Kids Again: A Father Confronts His Rage
301(4)
Christopher Scanlan
Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case
305(5)
Nan D. Hunter
The Relationship between Male-Male Friendship and Male-Female Marriage: American Indian and Asian Comparisons
310(12)
Walter L. Williams
PART VII: EDUCATION322(37)
The Miseducation of Boys: Changing the Script
328(6)
Myra Sadker
David Sadker
Conflict within the Ivory Tower
334(10)
Ruth Sidel
Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School
344(7)
bell hooks
Tales Out of Medical School
351(4)
Adriane Fugh-Berman
Scholarly Studies of Men: The New Field Is an Essential Complement to Women's Studies
355(4)
Harry Brod
PART VIII: PAID WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT359(63)
It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare
363(6)
Randy Albelda
Chris Tilly
Sex Differences in Moving Up and Taking Charge
369(14)
Barbara Reskin
Irene Padavic
Why Are There No Male Asian Anchormen on TV?
383(5)
Ben Fong-Torres
Sharing the Shop Floor
388(14)
Stan Gray
The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders
402(12)
Barbara Reskin
The Globetrotting Sneaker
414(8)
Cynthia Enloe
PART IX: HEALTH AND ILLNESS422(55)
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention
426(18)
Don Sabo
Health, Social Class and African-American Women
444(16)
Evelyn L. Barbee
Marilyn Little
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities
460(3)
Connie S. Chan
Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection---A 1998 Update
463(11)
Rita Arditti
Tatiana Schreiber
Law and Desire
474(3)
David Deitcher
PART X: VIOLENCE477(68)
Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America
481(9)
J. William Gibson
Women, Violence, and Resistance
490(28)
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Using Pornography
518(19)
Robert Jensen
The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls
537(4)
Jan Goodwin
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography
541(4)
Helen Zia
PART XI: A WORLD THAT IS TRULY HUMAN545(41)
A World Worth Living In
548(8)
Roberta Praeger
Choosing Disability
556(8)
Laura Hershey
La Guera
564(7)
Cherrie Moraga
Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Challenge for Community Education
571(9)
Robert L. Allen
Statement of Principles
580(2)
Fighting Gender Apartheid under the Taliban: New Campaigns to Free Women in Afghanistan Gain Ground
582(4)
Genevieve Howe
Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project
586
Byllye Y. Avery

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