Sex, gender, and sexuality : the new basics : an anthology / [compiled by] Abby L. Ferber, Kimberly Holcomb, Tre Wentling.

Other author Ferber, Abby L., 1966-
Other author Holcomb, Kimberly.
Other author Wentling, Tre.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description558 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Sex.
Sex role.
Gender identity.

Contents pt. 1. Rethinking Foundations: Theorizing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality -- The Occupied Territories / Essex Hemphill -- 1. Dualing Dualisms / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- 2. Muddying the Waters: Constructions of Sexuality, Gender, and Sex in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Karen Yescavage and Jonathan Alexander -- 3. Intersex Narratives: Gender, Medicine, and Identity / Sharon E. Preves -- 4. Doing Gender / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman -- 5. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity / Michael S. Kimmel -- 6. Goodbye to the Sex-Gender Distinction, Hello to Embodied Gender: On Masculinities, Bodies, and Violence / James W. Messerschmidt -- 7. The Ambiguity of Sex and Virginity Loss: Insights from Feminist Research Methods / Laura M. Carpenter -- 8. Moving Toward Agency: Gender Subjectivity and the Learning Curve of Sexual Encounters / Heather Powers Albanesi -- 9. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality / Patricia Hill Collins -- 10. Keeping Sex in Bounds: Sexuality and the (De) Construction of Race and Gender / Abby L. Ferber -- 11. Sexuality, Heterosexuality, and Gender Hierarchy: Getting Our Priorities Straight / Stevi Jackson -- 12. Which One's the Man? The Heterosexualisation of Lesbian Sex / Tamsin Wilton.
Contents pt. 2. Examining Our Lives, Expanding the Boundaries -- Nose Is a Country ... I Am the Second Generation / Aishe Berger -- 13. Loving Outside Simple Lines / Sonya Bolus -- 14. Whose Body Is This Anyway? / C. Jacob Hale -- 15. Holding My Breath Underwater / Michael Hernandez -- 16. Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore / Nadine Naber -- 17. Walk Like a Man: Enactments and Embodiments of Masculinity and the Potential for Multiple Genders / Sheila Dragon Fly Koenig -- 18. ʻO Au No Keia: Voice From Hawaiʻi's Mahu and Transgender Communities / Kauaʻi Iki -- 19. Becoming La Mujer / Marisa Navarro -- 20. A Young Man from Chelm: Or a Nontraditionally Gendered Hebrew School Teacher Tells All / Jaron Kanegson -- 21. Intimate Relationships: Learning from Later Life Experience / Ingrid Arnet Connidis.
Contents pt. 3. Investigating Power: Knowledge Production, Popular Culture, and Violence -- A. Constructing Knowledge -- Click. Hello? / Riki Anne Wilchins -- 22. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles / Emily Martin -- 23. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female / Phyllis Burke -- 24. Am I Obsessed? Gender Identity Disorder, Stress, and Obsession / Tre Wentling -- 25. The Function of the Orgasm / Catherine Blackledge -- 26. Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body / Siobhan Somerville -- 27. Heterosexism in Research: The Heterosexual Questionnaire / Martin Rochlin -- 28. Privileges Held by Non-Trans People / Avy Skolnik / Anonymous -- 29. Loose Lips Sink Ships / Simone Weil Davis -- B. Popular Culture -- When I Was Growing Up / Nellie Wong -- 30. The Third Sex: Asian-American Men in Popular Culture / Robert G. Lee -- 31. From the Muscle Moll to the Butch Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports / Susan Cahn -- 32. Victims and Villains / Keith Boykin -- 33. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Queercripped / Santiago Solis -- C. Violence -- With No Immediate Cause / Ntozake Shange -- 34. Rape and the War Against Native Women / Andrea Smith -- 35. Rape and the Prison Code / Terry A. Kupers -- 36. Sexual Science and the Law: Regulating Sex -- Reifying the Power of the Heterosexual Man / Jane Ussher -- 37. Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately: Violence Against Women, Gay Men, and Lesbians / Barbara Perry.
Contents pt. 4. (Re)envisioning Community and Social Change -- Poem: Sharon Hwang Colligan, One ... -- 38. One in Front of the Other / Tressa Anolin Navalta -- 39. Whose Gay Community? Social Class, Sexual Self-Expression, and Gay Community Involvement / Donald C. Barrett and Lance M. Pollack -- 40. Visions of Community for GLBT Youth: Resisting Fragmentation, Living Whole: Four Female Transgender Students of Color Speak About School / Nova Gutierrez -- 41. African-American Women and Abortion / Loretta J. Ross -- 42. My Daddy Loves Your Daddy: A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement / John C. Miller -- 43. It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity / Kate Woolfe -- 44. The Quiverfull Conviction: Christian Mothers Breed Arrows for the War / Kathryn Joyce -- 45. Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS / Cathy J. Cohen -- 46. Who Are We? Where Sexual Orientation Meets Gender Identity / A.H. Devor -- 47. A World Without Gender: Making the Revolution / Judith Lorber -- 48. From Beyond the Closet / Steven Seidman -- 49. We Are All Works in Progress / Leslie Feinberg.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formOnline version: Sex, gender, and sexuality. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
LCCN 2007052828
ISBN9780195332902 (hbk.)
ISBN0195332903 (hbk.)
ISBN9780195332896 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN019533289X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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