INDICE: Preface: ; Acknowledgements: ; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; A Few More Inconvenient Truths; Some Ground Rules for Studying Gender; Social Life Is Socially Based and Politically Structured: ; Gender Is Part of a Network of Social Inequalities: ; Scholarship Is Political: ; Overarching Theory of Intersectionality; Hegemonic Masculinities and Emphasized Femininities; Making History; Feminist Scholars Seeking Answers; Three Waves: ; Problems with the Three Waves;Waves of African Feminism; Plan of the Book; CHAPTER 2: BODIES AND GENDERS; The Standard Story; The Interplay of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality; Chromosomes, Hormones, and Genes; Sexed Bodies in Other Times and Other Places; Metaphors About Bodies in the New World: ; How Many Genders Are There? The Evidence from Other Cultures; Sexuality and Sexual Orientation: Gendering Desire; The Basis of Sexuality Is Not 'Either-Or' But 'Both-And': ; Sexuality is Socially Scripted: ; Bodies Are Produced Within Society: ; Erotic Relations Are Historical Relations: ; Sexuality is Racialized, Race is Sexualized: ; Intersex; Embodiment and Intersexuality: ; A Brief History of Intersex: ; Intersex as Lived Reality: ; Intersex Activism Takes Off: ; Intersex as a Human Rights Issue: ; Concluding Thoughts; CHAPTER 3: SOCIALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER; The Gender Lenses of Androcentrism, Gender Polarization, and Essentialism; Individual-Level Theories: Social Roles and Social Learning; The Interactionist Theory of Gender: Gender as a Course of Action; Doing Gender: ; Props and Resources for Doing Gender: ; Gender Structures: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Opportunity Structures: ; Power Structures: ; Relative Numbers: ; Gendered Organizations: Joan Acker; Gendered Institutions; CHAPTER 4: SEXUALITIES; Sex and the City; Comparing Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Around the Globe; Changing Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the United States; Orgasm and Sexual Politics: ; Sex Talk: ; Masturbation: ; The Racial Subtext of the Sexual Double Standard: ; Racialized Images of Women's Sexuality: ; Sex Tourism: ; What Is Your Sexuality?; Lesbian or Bisexual Chic: ; Competing Perspectives on Gendered Sexuality: ; SexualScripts: ; Violent Scripts; Resistance Scripts and The Vagina Monologues; Queer Theory; Homophobia: ; Heterosexism: ; Sex for Sale; Pornography: ; GenderedPorn; The Feminist Censorship Debate; Prostitution: ; Legal Prostitution; TheFeminist Prostitution Debate; Sex Trafficking; Sexual Rights: ; CHAPTER 5: EDUCATION; Elementary School Snapshots; Gender in the K-12 Classroom; What Difference Does Differential Treatment in Schools Make?: ; Taming Warriors in the Kindergarten Classroom: ; Medicalizing and Medicating Boys in Schools: ; Teaching Materials: ; High School; Math and Science and Gender: ; Vocational Education: ; Title IX, No Child Left Behind, and Single-Sex Schools: ; SAT Scores: ; International Comparisons on Standardized Tests: ; Higher Education and Gender; What About the Boys?: ; Global Rate
- ISBN: 978-0-19-537111-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 06/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés