The Gendered Society and The Gendered Society Reader Two-Volume Set

by Kimmel, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780195148077
• ISBN10: 019514807X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a package of two of Oxford's popular textbooks: The Gendered Society and The Gendered Society Reader . The Gendered Society is a well-reasoned, authoritative, and keenly animated statement about gender relations today, written by one of the country's foremost thinkers on the subject. Kimmel's companion book, The Gendered Society Reader , provides students with a sense of different discourses on gender that have been produced by a wide range of disciplines. Packed together, these two texts are perfect for classroom use. They are informative and entertaining for scholars, students, and the general reader.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
Michael S. Kimmel
PART 1. ANATOMY AND DESTINY: BIOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT GENDER DIFFERENCE	7	(30)
Psychological Sex Differences: Origins Through Sexual Selection	8	(6)
David M. Buss
The Trouble With Testosterone: Will Boys Just Be Boys?	14	(6)
Robert M. Sapolsky
The Mismeasure of Woman	20	(17)
Carol Tavris
PART 2. CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER	37	(36)
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies	38	(5)
Margaret Mead
The Function of Male Initiation Ceremonies at Puberty	43	(12)
John W. M. Whiting
Richard Kluckhohn
Albert Anthony
The Socio-cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-cultural Study	55	(18)
Peggy Reeves Sanday
PART 3. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX ROLES	73	(31)
Sex and Personality: Studies in Masculinity and Femininity	74	(7)
Lewis Terman
Catharine Cox Miles
A Social-Psychological Model of Gender	81	(10)
Kay Deaux
Brenda Major
The Exotic-Becomes-Erotic Theory of Sexual Orientation	91	(13)
Daryl J. Bem
PART 4. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER RELATIONS	104	(46)
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations	105	(13)
Joan Acker
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations	118	(13)
Judith M. Gerson
Kathy Peiss
Doing Gender	131	(19)
Candace West
Don H. Zimmerman
PART 5. THE GENDERED FAMILY	150	(59)
Modern Marriage: Revising the Cultural Script	151	(16)
David Popenoe
Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender	167	(20)
Scott Coltrane
The Families of Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Frontier in Family Research	187	(22)
Katherine R. Allen
David H. Demo
PART 6. THE GENDERED CLASSROOM	209	(47)
Gender Equity in the Classroom: The Unfinished Agenda	210	(6)
Myra Sadker
David Sadker
Lynn Fox
Melinda Salata
Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools	216	(13)
Nan Stein
The Role of Gender in College Classroom Interactions: A Social Context Approach	229	(27)
Katherine Canada
Richard Pringle
PART 7. THE GENDERED WORKPLACE	256	(55)
Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work	257	(13)
Barbara F. Reskin
Guarding the Gates: The Micropolitics of Gender	270	(24)
Judith Lorber
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ``Female'' Professions	294	(17)
Christine L. Williams
PART 8. GENDERED INTIMACIES	311	(50)
The Feminization of Love	312	(12)
Francesca M. Cancian
The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy	324	(6)
Lillian B. Rubin
Covert Intimacy: Closeness in Men's Friendship	330	(19)
Scott Swain
The Life and Death of Gay Clones	349	(12)
Martin P. Levine
PART 9. THE GENDER OF VIOLENCE	361	(1)
Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War	362	(13)
Carol Cohn
The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence	375
Russell P. Dobash
R. Emerson Dobash
Margo Wilson
Martin Daly
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
PART 1: EXPLANATIONS OF GENDER
Ordained by Nature: Biology Constructs the Sexes	21	(26)
Spanning the World: Cross-Cultural Constructions of Gender	47	(19)
``So, That Explains It'': Psychological Perspectives on Gender Development	66	(20)
Inequality and Difference: The Social Construction of Gender Relations	86	(25)
PART 2: GENDERED IDENTITIES, GENDERED INSTITUTIONS
The Gendered Family	111	(39)
The Gendered Classroom	150	(22)
The Gendered Workplace	172	(31)
PART 3: GENDERED INTERACTIONS
Gendered Intimacies: Friendship and Love	203	(18)
Gendered Sexualities	221	(21)
The Gender of Violence	242	(22)
Epilogue: A Degendered Society?	264	(5)
Notes	269	(34)
Index	303