The Kaleidoscope of Gender; Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities

by Joan Z. Spade

• ISBN13: 9781412979061
• ISBN10: 1412979064
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-17
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

A unique text/reader that explores the elusive, evolving construct of gender through the metaphor of a kaleidoscope Accessible, timely, and stimulating, the Third Edition provides a comprehensive analysis of the key ideas, theories, and applications in the field viewed through the metaphor of a kaleidoscope. Focusing on contemporary contributions to the field while incorporating classical and theoretical arguments, this collection of creative articles by top scholars explains how the complex, evolving pattern of gender studies is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally. Key features Updated introductions to each chapter and each reading provide an overview of the pertinent theoretical and thematic issues addressed. Articles by top scholars in the field challenge students to question how gender shapes their daily lives. A unifying theme using the kaleidoscope as a metaphor provides students with a valuable analytic tool for understanding the significance of gender in our society. Questions to consider at the beginning of each chapter help students focus on key points as they read.

Table of Contents

Prisms

The Prism of Gender

Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling With Action

What It Means to Be Gendered Me

Beyond Pink and Blue

The Trouble With Testosterone

Multiple Genders Among North American Indians

The Interaction of Gender With Other Socially Constructed Prisms

Inequality on the Shopping Floor

Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection

Asian American Women and Racialized Feminities: ?Doing? Gender Across Cultural Worlds

The Complexity of Intersectionality

Gender and the Prism of Culture

It?s Only a Penis: Rape, Feminism, and Difference

Female Circumcision: Muslim Identities and Zero Tolerance Policies in Rural West Java

We?re There and Queer: Homonormative Mobility and Lived Experience Among Gay Expatriates in Manila

Reinventing Honorable Masculinity: Discourses From a Working-Class Indian Community

Gender and Power

Patterns

Learning and Doing Gender

Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone: Race, Class, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Middle Childhood

No Way My Boys are Going to be Like That!: Parents? Responses to Children?s Gender Nonconformity

The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children?s Fairy Tales

Between a ?Soft?? and a ?Hard? Place: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in the School and Home

My Life as a Man

"Barbie Dolls" on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women's Rugby

Buying and Selling Gender

The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers

Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners

Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class, and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men

Consuming Orientalism: Images of Asian/American Women in Multicultural Advertising

Is He Boyfriend Material? Representation of Males in Teenage Girls? Magazines

Tracing Gender's Mark on Bodies, Sexualities, and Emotions

Size 6: The Western Woman?s Harem

Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers

Doing Gender, Doing Class: The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic Dance Clubs

'If It?s Not On, It?s Not On'?Or Is It?

Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework

Gender at Work

Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations

Selling Women Short: Gender Inequality on Wall Street

Emerging Theories of Care Work

Hard Drives and Glass Ceilings: Gender Stratification in High-Tech Production

Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track in Other Wealthy Nations

Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons From Two Generations of Work and Family Change

Gender in Intimate Relationships

Thinking About Gender and Power in Marriage

Black Intimacies: Love, Sex, and Relationships--The Pursuit of Intimacy

Complexity of Father Involvement in Low-Income Mexican American Families

Opting Into Motherhood: Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning of Parenthood and Kinship

Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians

Enforcing Gender

Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel Integrative Approach to Party Rape

Separating the Men From the Moms: The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports

Gendering Violence: Masculinity and Power in Men?s Accounts of Domestic Violence

Sexual Harassment and Masculinity: The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching

Possibilities

Nothing Is Forever

The Messy Relationship Between Feminisms and Globalizations

Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change

Change Among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena

Unraveling the Gender Knot

Epilogue

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