Gender Reckonings : New Social Theory and Research.

Cover -- GENDER RECKONINGS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Editors -- PART I. POINTS OF DEPARTURE: GENDER AND POWER AND ITS SEQUELS -- 1. "Theories Don't Grow on Trees": Contextualizing Gender Knowledge -- 2. Hegemonic, Nonhegemonic, and "New" Masculinities -- 3. From Object to Subject: Situating Transgender Lives in Sociology -- PART II. THE LARGER SCOPE OF GENDER ANALYSIS -- 4. Postcoloniality and the Sociology of Gender -- 5. Race, Indigeneity, and Gender: Lessons for Global Feminism -- 6. Categories, Structures, and Intersectional Theory -- PART III. FOUR DIMENSIONS OF RELATIONSHIP, STRUGGLE, AND CHANGE -- 7. Why "Heteronormativity" Is Not Enough: A Feminist Sociological Perspective on Heterosexuality -- 8. Gender Inequality and Feminism in the New Economy -- 9. Gender Politics in Academia in the Neoliberal Age -- 10. The Holy Grail of Organizational Change: Toward Gender Equality at Work -- PART IV. DYNAMICS OF MASCULINITIES -- 11. Concerning Tradition in Studies on Men and Masculinities in Ex-Colonies -- 12. Rethinking Patriarchy through Unpatriarchal Male Desires -- 13. On the Elasticity of Gender Hegemony: Why Hybrid Masculinities Fail to Undermine Gender and Sexual Inequality -- PART V. AGENDAS FOR THEORY -- 14. Limitations of the Neoliberal Turn in Gender Theory: (Re)Turning to Gender as a Social Structure -- 15. Paradoxes of Gender Redux: Multiple Genders and the Persistence of the Binary -- 16. The Monogamous Couple, Gender Hegemony, and Polyamory -- Conclusion: Reckoning with Gender -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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