Doing Gender Diversity : Readings in Theory and Real-World Experience.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Section I: The Basics of Gender -- CHAPTER 1: GENDER DIVERSITY AND THE BINARY -- 1 Doing Gender -- 2 Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender -- 3 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection -- 4 The Death of David Reimer: A Tale of Sex, Science, and Abuse -- 5 Whatever I Feel . . . -- 6 Defining and Producing Genitals -- 7 Subject: Her Baldness Meets Beth and Gets High on Gender -- 8 Hoowahyoo? -- CHAPTER 1 STUDY QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 2: LEARNING HOW TO "DO GENDER" -- 9 What Difference Does Difference Make? Women, Race-Ethnicity, Social Class, and Social Change -- 10 Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood -- 11 "Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse -- 12 Masculine, Feminine or Human? -- 13 More than Men: Latino Feminist Masculinities and Intersectionality -- 14 Trans(re)lations: Lesbian and Female to Male Transsexual Accounts of Identity -- 15 Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender across Cultural Worlds -- CHAPTER 2 STUDY QUESTIONS -- Section II: The Microcosm of Gender: Individuals in Context -- CHAPTER 3: CONSTRUCTING THE GENDERED BODY -- 16 The Effects of Images of African American Women in Hip Hop on Early Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Relationships -- 17 In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital "Cosmetic" Surgery -- 18 My Life as an Intersexual -- 19 Part of the Package: Ideas of Masculinity among Male-Identified Transpeople -- 20 Diary of an Anorexic -- 21 Disciplining Bodies: The Aging Experiences of Older Heterosexual and Gay Men -- CHAPTER 3 STUDY QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 4: DOING "IT": SEXUALITIES.

22 Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal: How "Doing" Class and Gender Influences Sexual Risk Taking -- 23 "My Body Is Not the Same": Body and Sexuality for White and Latina Long-Term Breast Cancer "Survivors" -- 24 Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore -- 25 Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities: Attitudes and Gender Expectations -- 26 Just a John? Pornography and Men's Choices -- 27 The Misunderstood Gender: A Model of Modern Femme Identity -- CHAPTER 4 STUDY QUESTIONS -- Section III: The Macrocosm of Gender: Institutions, Structures, and Politics -- CHAPTER 5: DOING GENDER DIVERSITY: AT HOME AND AT WORK -- 28 I Can't Wait to Get Married: Gender Differences in Drive to Marry -- 29 Intimate Transitions: Transgender Practices of Partnering and Parenting -- 30 Can a Gay Man Be a Housewife? Gay Fathers Doing Gender, Family, and Parenting -- 31 Teaching and Doing Gender in African American Families -- 32 Gender, Capitalism and Globalization -- 33 Doing Gender, Doing Class: The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic Dance Clubs -- 34 "Real Men Are Tough Guys": Hegemonic Masculinity and Safety in the Construction Industry -- CHAPTER 5 STUDY QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 6: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS IN OUR WORLD -- 35 Peeing in Peace: A Resource Guide for Transgender Activists and Allies -- 36 Gender-Neutral Restrooms -- 37 His and Hers: Gender and Garage Sales -- 38 I'd Rather Go Along and Be Considered a Man: Masculinity and Bystander Intervention -- 39 Men, Race, and Emotions: Men of Color and Masculine Productions -- 40 What the Pregnant Man Didn't Deliver -- 41 Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa'afafine Talk about Identity -- 42 Deploying Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Iraq War -- CHAPTER 6 STUDY QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 7: RATTLING THE CAGE: SOCIAL CHANGE.

43 What Is Gender-Normative Privilege? -- 44 But You're So Queer for a Straight Guy! Affirming Complexities of Gendered Sexualities in Men -- 45 Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism -- 46 When the Girls Are Men: Negotiating Gender and Sexual Dynamics in a Study of Drag Queens -- 47 Sex, Celebration, and Justice: The Queerness and Disability Conference -- 48 Can't We All Just Move Beyond? Everyday Manifestations of the Black/White Binary -- CHAPTER 7 STUDY QUESTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- INDEX.

This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions.

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