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Foundations | |
Developing a Critical Gender/Sex Lens | |
Gender Differences: A Cultural Obsession | |
A Critical Vocabulary or a New Lens Prescription | |
Putting It All Together | |
Alternative Approaches to Understanding Gender/Sex | |
Biological Approaches | |
Psychological Approaches | |
Descriptive Cultural Approaches | |
Critical Cultural Approaches | |
Conclusion: Gender Diversity | |
Gendered/Sexed Voices | |
Constructing a Critical Gender/Sex Lens | |
Constructing Gender/Sex in Communication | |
Cultural Perceptions of Gender/Sex Styles and Speakers | |
Power and Talk | |
Conclusion | |
Gendered/Sexed Bodies | |
Gender Embodiment: Why Nonverbals Matter | |
Constructing a Critical Gender/Sex Lens | |
Components of Nonverbal Communication | |
Gender as Body Performance | |
Refusing the Command Performance | |
Conclusion | |
Gendered/Sexed Language | |
Theories Explaining the Power of Language | |
Language Can Be Used to Oppress and Subordinate | |
Language as Resistance | |
Conclusion: An Ethics of Language | |
Institutions | |
Introduction to Gender in Social Institutions | |
What Is an Institution? | |
Institutional Control and Hegemony | |
Gender Is a Social Institution | |
Institutionalized Gendered/Sexed Violence | |
Unit Preview | |
Family | |
Family as a Social Institution | |
Interlocking Institutions | |
Family Constructs (and Constrains) Gender | |
Emancipatory Families | |
Conclusion | |
Education | |
Education as a Social Institution | |
Interlocking Institutions | |
It's Not About Sex Difference | |
Education Constructs (and Constrains) Gender | |
Emancipatory Education | |
Conclusion | |
Work | |
Work as a Social Institution | |
Interlocking Institutions | |
It's Not About Sex Difference | |
Work Constructs (and Constrains) Gender | |
Work as Liberation and Locations of Empowerment in Work | |
Conclusion | |
Religion | |
Religion as a Social Institution | |
Interlocking Institutions | |
It's Not About Sex Difference | |
Religion Constructs (and Constrains) Gender | |
Religion as Liberation and Locations of Empowerment in Religion | |
Conclusion | |
Media | |
Media as a Social Institution | |
Interlocking Institutions | |
It's Not About Sex Difference | |
Media Construct (and Constrains) Gender | |
Media as Always Liberatory and Constraining | |
Conclusion | |
One Last Look Through a Critical Gendered Lens | |
References | |
Index | |
About the Authors | |
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