Gender Through The Prism Of Difference

by Zinn, Maxine Baca; Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette; Messner, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9780195167641
• ISBN10: 0195167643
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The third edition of Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area--which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints--this book features many articles based on research done elsewhere throughout the world. The editors open this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction that sets the stage for understanding gender as a socially constructed experience. Featuring mostly new readings, the book covers timely subjects--such as gender and popular culture, Islam, and men and war--to help students make a connection between the issues raised in the book and current events. It also addresses a number of compelling topics, including the effects of globalization on notions of masculinity, the difficulties faced by Muslim women living in post-9/11 America, and the perceptions of "blackness" worldwide. Guiding students through the complex realities of today's gender relationships, Gender Through the Prism of Difference is ideal for undergraduate or graduate courses in the sociology of gender; women's studies; gender roles; the sociology of women; women in society; race, class, and gender; feminist theory; and social inequality.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference

Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Difference

The Five Sexes, Revisited

Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism

Bargaining with Patriarchy

Masculinities and Globalization

Global Woman

Antiglobalization Pedagogies and Feminism

BodiesControl and Resistance

Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women''s Health

It''s a Big Fat Revolution

Strong and Large Black Women? Exploring Relationships Between Deviant Womanhood and Weight

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas

Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports in Prison

What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender SystemViolence

Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Common Experiences in Different Countries

Acid Violence and Medical Care Bangladesh: Women''s Activism as Carework

Nationalism, War, and Archaization of Gender Relations in the Balkans

Gender, Class, and Terrorism

SexualitiesSexual Relations, Intimacy, Power

"I couldn''t ever picture myself having sex...": Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity

Male Discretion and Sexual Indiscretion in Working Class Mexico City

Because She Looks Like a Child

The Sex Tourist, The Expatriate, His Ex-Wife, and her "Other": The Politics of Loss, Difference, and DesireSexuality and Identity

The Globalization of Sexual Identities

Becoming 100% Straight

"Americans Have a Different Attitude": Family, Sexuality, and Gender in Filipina American Lives

Identities

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

The Rights and Wrongs of Identity Politics and Sexual Identities

Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz

Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender Across Cultural Worlds

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

FamiliesMotherhood, Fatherhood

The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships

Revision and Resistance: The Politics of Native Women''s Motherwork

"I''m Here but I''m There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood

"The Worms are Weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in EgyptWork and Families

Maid or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor

Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment Among Hispanic Women

Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women

What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say About Marriage?VI. Constructing Gender in the Workplace

Gendering the Market: Temporality, Work, and Gender on a National Futures Exchange

Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants

"Their Logic Against Them": Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley

Go Away...But Stay Close Enough

Education and Schools

Naughty by Nature

How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives

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