The Gender Reader

by Ashton-Jones, Evelyn; Olson, Gary A.; Perry, Merry G.

• ISBN13: 9780205285303
• ISBN10: 0205285309
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-24
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The Gender Reader 's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
PART I Gender Roles: Difference and Change	1	(154)
Gender Differences: Sociology or Biology?	4	(27)
Male and Female: Differences Between Them	4	(8)
Virginia Adams
The Brain: His and Hers	12	(11)
Pamela Weintraub
Are Women Human?	23	(8)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Masculinity in Transition	31	(22)
What Every Woman Should Know About Men	31	(4)
Alan Alda
In Harness: The Male Condition	35	(8)
Herb Goldberg
Masculinity: Style and Cult	43	(6)
Harold Rosenberg
He's a Feminist, But...	49	(4)
Mary Kay Blakely
Femininity and Culture	53	(43)
Woman as Other	53	(7)
Simone De Beauvoir
Psychology Constructs the Female	60	(17)
Naomi Weisstein
Emotion	77	(12)
Susan Brownmiller
Sisterhood	89	(7)
Gloria Steinem
Gender and Sexual Identity	96	(59)
The Homosexual Role	96	(9)
Mary McIntosh
Sexual Culture	105	(10)
Edmund White
What Price Independence? Social Reactions to Lesbians, Spinsters, Widows, and Nuns	115	(14)
Rose Weitz
Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities	129	(26)
Patrik D. Hopkins
Taking a Stand: Questions for Consideration	152	(3)
PART II Women's Role: Historical Perspectives	155	(132)
Voices From and About the Past	157	(30)
The Role of Women in the Ideal Society	157	(7)
Plato
I Thank Thee, Lord, That Thou Has Not Created Me a Woman	164	(5)
Mary Daly
On Christian Marriage	169	(5)
Pope Pius XI
To Be a Woman and a Scholar	174	(9)
Dorothy Gies McGuigan
Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution	183	(4)
Kate Millett
Women and Equal Rights	187	(63)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	187	(20)
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Rights of Women	207	(3)
Frederick Douglass
From The Subjection of Women	210	(15)
John Stuart Mill
From Women and Economics	225	(14)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Awakening and Revolt	239	(6)
Margaret Sanger
Birth Control-A Parent's Problem or Woman's?	245	(5)
Margaret Sanger
Race and Femininity	250	(37)
Ain't I a Woman?	250	(3)
Sojourner Truth
Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex	253	(15)
Ellen Willis
Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman	268	(7)
Mitsuye Yamada
Racism and Feminism	275	(12)
Bell Hooks
Taking a Stand: Questions for Consideration	285	(2)
PART III Language and Sexism	287	(76)
Sexist Language	289	(44)
One Small Step for Genkind	289	(12)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
Sexism in English: A 1990s Update	301	(12)
Alleen Pace Nilsen
Women and Names	313	(15)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House	328	(5)
Audre Lorde
Conversation and Gender	333	(30)
Men and Women Talking	333	(14)
Gloria Steinem
Talking Trouble	347	(9)
Anne Roiphe
Nods That Silence	356	(7)
Lynet Uttal
Taking a Stand: Questions for Consideration	361	(2)
PART IV Gender and Social Institutions	363	(60)
Education	365	(22)
Fail: Bright Woman	365	(9)
Matina Horner
Taking Women Students Seriously	374	(8)
Adrienne Rich
Educated Woman	382	(5)
M. Carey Thomas
Work	387	(36)
I Want a Wife	387	(3)
Judy Syfers
Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father	390	(4)
Rick Greenberg
The Politics of Housework	394	(7)
Pat Mainardi
Marked: Women in the Workplace	401	(22)
Deborah Tannen
Taking a Stand: Questions for Consideration	421	(2)
PART V Sexism and the Status of Women	423	(72)
Cultural Violence	425	(26)
Are Women Prejudiced Against Women?	425	(6)
Philip Goldberg
Women : Invisible Cages	431	(7)
Brigid Brophy
Being a Secretary Can Be Hazardous to Your Health	438	(3)
Ellen Goodman
Rape	441	(10)
Diane Johnson
Global Perspectives	451	(44)
Life Behind the Veil	451	(11)
Cherry Lindholm
Charles Lindholm
African Genital Mutilation: The Unspeakable Atrocities	462	(24)
Mary Daly
Here Come the Brides	486	(9)
John Krich
Taking a Stand: Questions for Consideration	495