Sexuality and Gender

by Williams, Christine L.; Stein, Arlene

• ISBN13: 9780631222729
• ISBN10: 0631222723
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The essays included here reflect differences in race, gender and class and demonstrate how different social groups experience different sets of social norms. Topics include gender and sex theory, identity, childhood and adolescent sexuality, the objectification of women, sexuality and religion, leisure and recreation, politics and social change and the possible future of sexual relationships.

Author Biography

Christine L. Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations (1989) and Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" (1995), and is the editor of Doing 'Women's Work': Men in Nontraditional Occupations (1993) and Feminist Views of the Social Sciences (2000). She has served as chair of the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.

Arlene Stein teaches sociology at Rutgers University. She is the author of Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation (1997) and The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community' Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (2001), and is the editor of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (1993). She has served as chair of the Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(2)
Part I Thinking About Sexuality	3	(58)
Higamous-Hogamous	5	(15)
Dorothy Dinnerstein
Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective	20	(13)
Ken Plummer
Pleasure under Patriarchy	33	(11)
Catharine A. MacKinnon
A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality	44	(17)
Steven Epstein
Part II Gender and Sexual Identities	61	(64)
The Naked Citadel	63	(24)
Susan Faludi
Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua	87	(13)
Roger N. Lancaster
Copycat	100	(13)
Kath Weston
Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females	113	(12)
Evelyn Blackwood
Part III Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence	125	(66)
Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds	127	(15)
Barrie Thorne
Zella Luria
``I couldn't ever picture myself having sex...'': Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity	142	(25)
Karin A. Martin
``The punk guys will really overpower what the punk girls have to say'': The Boys' Turf	167	(7)
Lauraine Leblanc
Tough Times: Susan Carter	174	(17)
Elaine Bell Kaplan
Part IV Sexual Objectification	191	(66)
The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood	193	(14)
Patricia Hill Collins
The Meaning of Sex	207	(14)
Wendy Chapkis
Working for Men: At the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality	221	(18)
Meika Loe
Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants	239	(18)
Patti A. Giuffre
Christine L. Williams
Part V Sexuality and Religion	257	(52)
Breaking Walls, Raising Fences: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Accountability among the Promise Keepers	259	(13)
John P. Bartkowski
Sex-Segregated Living: Celebrating the Female	272	(10)
Debra Renee Kaufman
The Metropolitan Community Churches and the Gay Agenda: The Power of Pentecostalism and Essentialism	282	(15)
R. Stephen Warner
The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality	297	(12)
Fatima Mernissi
Part VI Leisure and Recreation	309	(60)
Publicity Traps: Television Talk Shows and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Visibility	311	(21)
Joshua Gamson
Girls, Media, and the Negotiation of Sexuality: A Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Adolescent Peer Groups	332	(17)
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Becoming 100 Percent Straight	349	(6)
Michael A. Messner
Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism	355	(14)
Julia O'Connell Davidson
Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor
Part VII Sexual Politics and Social Change	369	(56)
Sex and Society	371	(11)
Robert T. Michael
John H. Gagnon
Edward O. Laumann
Gina Kolata
A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy: Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences	382	(13)
Lionel Cantu
Gay and Lesbian Families are Here; All Our Families Are Queer; Let's Get Used to It!	395	(13)
Judith Stacey
Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Women's Sexuality	408	(17)
Beth E. Schneider
Valerie Jenness
Part VIII Future Directions	425	(49)
Beyond the Closet? The Changing Social Meaning of Homosexuality in the United States	427	(19)
Steven Seidman
Chet Meeks
Francie Traschen
Intimacy as Democracy	446	(10)
Anthony Giddens
Intimacy Transformed? A Critical Look at the ``Pure Relationship''	456	(12)
Lynn Jamieson
The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough	468	(6)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Index	474