The Gendered Society Reader

by Kimmel, Michael S.; Aronson, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780195125863
• ISBN10: 019512586X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Designed as a companion volume to Kimmel's forthcoming book, The Gendered Society, the overall purpose of The Gendered Society: Readings is to provide students with a sense of different discourses on gender that have been produced by a wide range of disciplines. In a series of readings, bothclassic and contemporary, from the biological sciences, anthropology, cross-culture studies, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and gender studies, Kimmel focuses on the two major issues in the study of gender - difference and domination - looking at such fundamental questions as: How aremales and females different? What do these differences mean? Why does it mean different things in different cultures to be male or female? Why is it that virtually every society differentiates people on the basis on gender? Why is that virtually every known society is also based on male domination? The first sections are organized by discipline, collecting classic statements of different theoretical perspectives and research inquiries. The final sections address various substantive issues such as: sex; gender and work; and love, sex, and the family. In its focus on both empirical andtheoretical issues, its broad interdisciplinary perspective, and its emphasis on including both men and women, this reader is both informative and entertaining and appropriate for both scholars and students.

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