Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology

by Disch, Estelle

• ISBN13: 9780072997422
• ISBN10: 0072997427
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-20
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This United States-focused anthology on gender focuses on women and men and the multiple identities that comprise the lives of individuals across gender. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent a plurality of perspectives and experiences. Eleven part introductions briefly identify important issues in the general eld of study, describe the readings, identify the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
General Introduction	1	(28)
PART I: IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GENDER	29	(80)
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son	31	(10)
Martin Espada
From Nothing, A Consciousness	41	(7)
Helen Zia
The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism	48	(15)
Patricia Hill Collins
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	63	(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
``J.A.P.''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating	67	(4)
Ruth Atkin
Adrienne Rich
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	71	(5)
Peggy Mclntosh
Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws	76	(5)
Farida Shaheed
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism	81	(10)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them or an Us	91	(8)
Allan Johnson
Reflections on Global Governance and Transnational Feminist Movements in an Era of Infinite War	99	(10)
Rosalind Petchesky
PART II: GENDER SOCIALIZATION	109	(46)
The Social Construction of Gender	113	(7)
Judith Lorber
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities	120	(17)
Michael A. Messner
Who's the Fairest of Them All?	137	(5)
Jill Nelson
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	142	(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	147	(6)
Tommi Avicolli
Growing Up Hidden	153	(2)
Linnea Due
PART III: EMBODIMENT	155	(57)
Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body	162	(11)
Elayne A. Saltzberg
Joan C. Chrisler
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit	173	(3)
Leslie Marmon Silko
``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African American, Latina, and White Women	176	(15)
Becky W. Thompson
Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space	191	(3)
Brent Staples
Taking It	194	(3)
Leonard Kriegel
Do You Remember Me?	197	(4)
Barbara Macdonald
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina	201	(2)
Christy Haubegger
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation	203	(9)
Martha A. Coventry
PART IV: COMMUNICATION	212	(45)
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend	215	(1)
Pat Parker
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation	216	(5)
Deborah Tannen
Real Men Don't Cry ... and Other ``Uncool'' Myths	221	(5)
Phil W. Petrie
The New Momism	226	(13)
Susan J. Douglas
Meredith W. Michaels
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expressions in Hip-Hop	239	(9)
Ayana Byrd
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism	248	(4)
Shireen Lee
Where Are the Women? The Strange Case of the Missing Feminists. When Was the Last Time You Saw One on TV?	252	(5)
Laura Zimmerman
PART V: SEXUALITY	257	(42)
How Men Have (a) Sex	264	(10)
Jon Stoltenberg
The Myth of the Sexual Athlete	274	(5)
Don Sabo
Reproductive Rights: A Disability Rights Issue	279	(6)
Marsha Saxton
The Impact of Multiple Marginalization	285	(8)
Paula C. Rust
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power	293	(6)
Audre Lorde
PART VI: FAMILIES	299	(47)
The Transformation of Family Life	304	(10)
Lillian B. Rubin
Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks	314	(7)
Patricia Hill Collins
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood	321	(10)
Kathleen Gerson
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response	331	(6)
Audre Lorde
I Am a Man	337	(4)
Raul E. Ybarra
What Is Marriage For?	341	(5)
E. J. Graff
PART VII: EDUCATION	346	(49)
Missing in Interaction	354	(7)
Myra
David Sadker
``What About the Boys?'' What the Current Debates Tell Us-and Don't Tell Us -- About Boys in School	361	(15)
Michael S. Kimmel
Conflict within the Ivory Tower	376	(12)
Ruth Sidel
Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School	388	(7)
bell hooks
PART VIII: PAID WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT	395	(75)
The ``Success'' of Welfare Reform	401	(16)
Sharon Hays
Sixty Cents to a Man's Dollar	417	(8)
Ann Crittenden
Why Are There No Male Asian Anchormen on TV?	425	(5)
Ben Fong-Torres
The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders	430	(13)
Barbara Reskin
``Global Woman''	443	(10)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Arlie Russell Hochschild
America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery	453	(9)
Joy M. Zarembka
The Globetrotting Sneaker	462	(8)
Cynthia Enloe
PART IX: VIOLENCE	470	(65)
Women, Violence, and Resistance	478	(13)
Melanie Kaye
The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls	491	(5)
Jan Goodwin
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography	496	(3)
Helen Zia
Homophobia in Straight Men	499	(2)
Terry A. Kupers
Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Challenge for Community Education	501	(10)
Robert L. Allen
How Safe Is America?	511	(3)
Desiree Taylor
Wielding Masculinity Inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal	514	(10)
Cynthia Enloe
Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity	524	(11)
Stephen J. Ducat
PART X: HEALTH AND ILLNESS	535	(60)
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention	541	(18)
Don Sabo
Health, Social Class and African-American Women	559	(16)
Evelyn L. Barbee
Marilyn Little
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities	575	(3)
Connie S. Chan
Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers	578	(4)
Sandra Steingraber
Does Silencio = Muerte?: Notes on Translating the AIDS Epidemic	582	(7)
Dr. Rafael Campo
To Be Poor and Transgender	589	(6)
Kai Wright
PART XI: A WORLD THAT IS TRULY HUMAN	595	(48)
Statement of Principles	598	(1)
The Blow Up ... A Clash of Realities	599	(6)
Gloria E. Anzaldua
American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America	605	(8)
M. Annette Jaimes
Theresa Halsey
Toward a New Civic Leadership: The Africana Criminal Justice Project	613	(8)
Geoff K. Ward
Manning Marable
Organizing for Peace in Israel: Why Israeli Women Want a Peace Movement of Their Own	621	(6)
Gila Svirsky
Women's Human Rights: It's about Time!	627	(16)
Rita Arditti
Name Index	643	(17)
Subject Index	660