Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology

by Boss, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780073380063
• ISBN10: 0073380067
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-22
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Reconstructing Genderis an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent many perspectives and experiences. Eleven part-opening introductions identify important issues in the general field of study, describe the readings, remind the reader about some of the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
General Introduction	p. 1
It's not Just about Gender	p. 31
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son	p. 34
From Nothing, a Consciousness	p. 44
The Past Is Ever Present: Recognizing the New Racism	p. 51
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	p. 65
"J.A.P."-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating	p. 70
Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship	p. 74
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	p. 78
Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living under Muslim Laws	p. 83
Under and (Inside) Western Eyes: At the Turn of the Century	p. 88
Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us	p. 98
Gender Socialization	p. 107
The Social Construction of Gender	p. 112
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities	p. 119
Who's the Fairest of Them All?	p. 136
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	p. 141
Growing Up Hidden	p. 147
Masculinity as Homophobia	p. 149
Embodiment	p. 156
Making Up Is Hard to Do	p. 165
"A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	p. 186
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit	p. 201
Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space	p. 204
Taking It	p. 207
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina	p. 210
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation	p. 212
Communication	p. 221
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend	p. 225
Men and Women Are from Earth	p. 226
Real Men Don't Cry... and Other "Uncool" Myths	p. 230
The New Momism	p. 235
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop	p. 248
Where Are the Women? The Strange Case of the Missing Feminists. When Was the Last Time You Saw One on TV?	p. 257
Sexuality	p. 262
A Pornographic World [What Is Normal?]	p. 270
The Myth of the Sexual Athlete	p. 278
Passing Last Summer	p. 282
The Impact of Multiple Marginalization	p. 289
Families	p. 297
Contemporary Challenges to Black Women's Reproductive Rights	p. 304
Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks	p. 318
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood	p. 325
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response	p. 335
I Am a Man	p. 341
What Is Marriage For?	p. 345
Free to Marry, at Last-May 17, 2004	p. 350
Education	p. 353
Missing in Interaction	p. 362
"What about the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us-and Don't Tell Us-about Boys in School	p. 369
Does Gender Matter?	p. 383
Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School	p. 392
Mentors in Violence Prevention	p. 399
Paid Work and Unemployment	p. 413
The End of Welfare as We Know It: An Overview of the Prwora	p. 421
Sixty Cents to a Man's Dollar	p. 433
Global Woman	p. 441
America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery	p. 451
The Globetrotting Sneaker	p. 461
The Center of Masculine Production: Gay Athletes in Professional Sports	p. 469
Men at War: Vietnam and Agent Orange	p. 475
Fort Bragg: Command	p. 491
Violence at Home and Abroad	p. 496
Women, Violence, and Resistance	p. 504
Eminem's Popularity Is a Major Setback for Girls and Women	p. 517
Pictures of Boyhood	p. 530
Injury, Gender, and Trouble	p. 539
Homophobia in Straight Men	p. 550
The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls	p. 552
How Safe Is America?	p. 557
Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal	p. 560
The Private War of Women Soldiers	p. 569
Health and Illness	p. 577
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention	p. 585
Health Care Reform-A Woman's Issue	p. 603
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities	p. 607
Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers	p. 611
Does Silencio = Muerte? Notes on Translating the AIDS Epidemic	p. 615
To Be Poor and Transgender	p. 622
A World that is Truly Human	p. 628
Statement of Principles	p. 631
New Black Man	p. 633
Feminism's Future: Young Feminists of Color Take the Mic	p. 639
Tapping Our Strength	p. 642
The Women's Peace Movement in Israel	p. 650
Women's Human Rights: It's about Time!	p. 654
Name Index	p. 671
Subject Index	p. 686
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