Reconstructing Gender : A Multicultural Anthology

by Disch, Estelle

• ISBN13: 9780767410021
• ISBN10: 0767410025
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Contributors	xvii
General Introduction	1	(20)
PART I: SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF GENDER	21	(48)
Toward Black American Empowerment	24	(10)
Manning Marable
Asian American Women: Not for Sale	34	(7)
Tracy Lai
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son	41	(11)
Martin Espada
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	52	(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
``J.A.P.''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating	56	(3)
Ruth Atkin
Adrienne Rich
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism	59	(10)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Bonnie Thornton Dill
PART II: GENDER SOCIALIZATION	69	(71)
The Social Construction of Gender	73	(8)
Judith Lorber
Girls and Boys Together ... but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary School	81	(17)
Barrie Thorne
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities	98	(17)
Michael A. Messner
Prison of Color	115	(6)
Virginia R. Harris
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	121	(5)
Tommi Avicolli
Always Running	126	(6)
Luis J. Rodriguez
Masculinity as Homophobia	132	(8)
Michael S. Kimmel
PART III: EMBODIMENT	140	(52)
Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body	146	(11)
Elayne A. Saltzberg
Joan C. Chrisler
``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	157	(15)
Becky W. Thompson
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space	172	(3)
Brent Staples
Taking It	175	(2)
Leonard Kriegel
Do You Remember Me?	177	(4)
Barbara Macdonald
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina	181	(2)
Christy Haubegger
The Tyranny of the Esthetic: Surgery's Most Intimate Violation	183	(9)
Martha Coventry
PART IV: COMMUNICATION	192	(33)
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend	195	(1)
Pat Parker
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	196	(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation	201	(5)
Deborah Tannen
Real Men Don't Cry ... and Other ``Uncool'' Myths	206	(5)
Phil W. Petrie
Danny	211	(6)
Nathan McCall
American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America	217	(8)
M. Annette Jaimes
Theresa Halsey
PART V: SEXUALITY	225	(47)
How Men Have (a) Sex	230	(10)
John Stoltenberg
The Myth of the Sexual Athlete	240	(4)
Don Sabo
Forbidden Fruit	244	(4)
Anne Finger
The Impact of Multiple Marginalization	248	(7)
Paula C. Rust
The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood	255	(17)
Patricia Hill Collins
PART VI: FAMILIES	272	(50)
The Transformation of Family Life	276	(9)
Lillian B. Rubin
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood	285	(10)
Kathleen Gerson
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response	295	(6)
Audre Lorde
It's Late at Night, and I'm Screaming at My Kids Again: A Father Confronts His Rage	301	(4)
Christopher Scanlan
Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case	305	(5)
Nan D. Hunter
The Relationship between Male-Male Friendship and Male-Female Marriage: American Indian and Asian Comparisons	310	(12)
Walter L. Williams
PART VII: EDUCATION	322	(37)
The Miseducation of Boys: Changing the Script	328	(6)
Myra Sadker
David Sadker
Conflict within the Ivory Tower	334	(10)
Ruth Sidel
Black and Female: Reflections on Graduate School	344	(7)
bell hooks
Tales Out of Medical School	351	(4)
Adriane Fugh-Berman
Scholarly Studies of Men: The New Field Is an Essential Complement to Women's Studies	355	(4)
Harry Brod
PART VIII: PAID WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT	359	(63)
It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare	363	(6)
Randy Albelda
Chris Tilly
Sex Differences in Moving Up and Taking Charge	369	(14)
Barbara Reskin
Irene Padavic
Why Are There No Male Asian Anchormen on TV?	383	(5)
Ben Fong-Torres
Sharing the Shop Floor	388	(14)
Stan Gray
The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders	402	(12)
Barbara Reskin
The Globetrotting Sneaker	414	(8)
Cynthia Enloe
PART IX: HEALTH AND ILLNESS	422	(55)
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention	426	(18)
Don Sabo
Health, Social Class and African-American Women	444	(16)
Evelyn L. Barbee
Marilyn Little
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for the Asian-American Communities	460	(3)
Connie S. Chan
Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection---A 1998 Update	463	(11)
Rita Arditti
Tatiana Schreiber
Law and Desire	474	(3)
David Deitcher
PART X: VIOLENCE	477	(68)
Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America	481	(9)
J. William Gibson
Women, Violence, and Resistance	490	(28)
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Using Pornography	518	(19)
Robert Jensen
The Ultimate Growth Industry: Trafficking in Women and Girls	537	(4)
Jan Goodwin
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography	541	(4)
Helen Zia
PART XI: A WORLD THAT IS TRULY HUMAN	545	(41)
A World Worth Living In	548	(8)
Roberta Praeger
Choosing Disability	556	(8)
Laura Hershey
La Guera	564	(7)
Cherrie Moraga
Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Challenge for Community Education	571	(9)
Robert L. Allen
Statement of Principles	580	(2)
Fighting Gender Apartheid under the Taliban: New Campaigns to Free Women in Afghanistan Gain Ground	582	(4)
Genevieve Howe
Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project	586
Byllye Y. Avery