Issues of Gender (A Longman Topics Reader)

by Friedman, Ellen G.; Marshall, Jennifer D.

• ISBN13: 9780321108791
• ISBN10: 0321108795
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Part of the "Longman Topics explores how gender roles operate in and through work, sexuality, popular culture, family, and across global perspectives.This brief collection of non-fiction and fiction essays examines constructions of femininities and masculinities and foregrounds intersections of race, class, and sexual preference as both shaping and shaped by gender. Brief apparatus encourages students to think critically about the ideas raised and challenges them to reconsider personal perspectives on gender issues in light of the readings.Longman Topics" are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers. Friedman_Marshall Issues_in_Gender SMP Page 1 of 1

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Gender and Family	1	(58)
Overview	1	(25)
``Family'' from Morality USA	1	(17)
Ellen G. Friedman
Corinne Squire
The Transformation of Family Life	18	(8)
Lillian B. Rubin
Issues	26	(32)
Witnessing the Death of Love: She Hears Him Tell the Woman That He Will Kill Her...	26	(5)
bell hooks
Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way	31	(8)
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women	39	(11)
Nicholas W. Townsend
Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case	50	(6)
Nan D. Hunter
Blue Horses Rush In	56	(2)
Luci Tapahonso
Exploring Connections	58	(1)
Gender and Popular Culture	59	(58)
Overview	59	(18)
Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture	59	(10)
Sut Jhally
How Does a Supermodel Do Feminism? An Interview with Veronica Webb	69	(8)
Rebecca Walker
Issues	77	(39)
``Where Do the Mermaids Stand?'': Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid	78	(13)
Laura Sells
Sexism and the Art of Feminist Hip-Hop Maintenance	91	(11)
Eisa Davis
Putting Ally on Trial: Contesting Postfeminism in Popular Culture	102	(14)
Mary Douglas Vavrus
Exploring Connections	116	(1)
Gender and Sexuality	117	(44)
Overview	117	(18)
Letters to a Young Feminist on Sex and Reproductive Freedom	117	(8)
Phyllis Chesler
How Men Have (a) Sex	125	(10)
John Stoltenberg
Issues	135	(25)
Who's on Top? Heterosexual Practices and Male Dominance During the Sex Act	136	(5)
Mercedes E. Steedman
Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings	141	(13)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Le Freak, C'Est Chic! Le Fag, Quelle Drag!: Celebrating the Collapse of Homosexual Identity	154	(6)
D. Travers Scott
Exploring Connections	160	(1)
Gender and Work	161	(50)
Overview	161	(28)
Sex-Role Spillover: Personal, Familial, and Organizational Roles	161	(13)
Rita Mae Kelly
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home	174	(15)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Ann Machung
Issues	189	(21)
A World Worth Living In	190	(9)
Roberta Praeger
The 3rd WWWave: Who We Are, and Why We Need to Speak	199	(6)
Kim Allen
Sexual Harassment: The Nature of the Beast	205	(5)
Anita F. Hill
Exploring Connections	210	(1)
Gender and Global Perspectives	211	(44)
Overview	211	(18)
Empathy Among Women on a Global Scale	211	(8)
Mahnaz Afkhami
The Global Women's Human Rights Movement	219	(10)
Human Rights Watch
Issues	229	(25)
The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry	229	(7)
Donna M. Hughes
The Globetrotting Sneaker	236	(9)
Cynthia Enloe
The Women's Baths	245	(9)
Ulfat al-Idlibi
Exploring Connections	254	(1)
Notes on the Contributors	255	(4)
Credits	259