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Gendered worlds / Judy Root Aulette, Judith Wittner.

"In Gendered Worlds, Second Edition, authors Judy Root Aulette and Judith Wittner use the sociological imagination to explore gender relations throughout the world. They look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally; examine the impact of globa...

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Main Author: Aulette, Judy Root
Other Authors: Wittner, Judith G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, USA, [2012]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Sex role.
Women > Social conditions.
Feminist theory.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Women.
Gender identity.
Theories.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bodies and Gender
  • Socialization and the Social Construction of Gender
  • Sexualities
  • Education
  • Work
  • Families
  • Violence
  • Gender and Race Based Illness: Diseases of the Division of Labor
  • Politics, Prisons, and the Military
  • Popular Culture, Media, and the Spectacle of Sports
  • Religion
  • Gender and Globalization.
  • 1. Introduction
  • Intersectionality
  • Hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities
  • Feminism
  • 2. Bodies and gender
  • Interplay of sex, gender, and sexuality
  • Chromosomes, hormones, and genes
  • Metaphors about bodies in the New World
  • Sexuality and sexual orientation
  • Intersex and transgender bodies
  • Intersex activism
  • 3. Socialization and the social construction of gender
  • Gender lenses of androcentrism, gender polarization, and essentialism
  • Social roles and social learning
  • Interactionist theories : doing gender
  • Structuralist theories : Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Gendered organization : Joan Acker
  • Integrating socialization, interaction, and institutions
  • The interactional construction of bad boys and disciplinarian teachers
  • 4. Sexualities
  • Sexual attitudes and behaviors around the globe
  • Changing attitudes toward sexuality in the United States
  • Gender, orgasm, and sexual politics
  • Calling, dating, and hooking up
  • Sexual rights
  • Racial subtext of the sexual double standard
  • Sexualized images of Black men
  • Racialized images of women's sexuality
  • Social class and sexuality
  • Lesbian or bisexual chic
  • Men who have sex with men
  • Homophobia
  • Heterosexism
  • Competing perspectives on gendered sexuality
  • Biology
  • Sexual script
  • Queer theory
  • Sex for sale
  • Pornography
  • Gendered porn
  • The feminist censorship debate
  • Prostitution
  • Legal prostitution
  • The feminist prostitute debate
  • Globalization and sex trafficking
  • 5. Education
  • Gender in the K-12 classroom
  • Differential treatment in school
  • Medicalizing and medicating boys in school
  • Teaching materials
  • Bullying
  • High School
  • Math ans 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
  • Women and higher education in the United States
  • Global issues in education
  • Gender and teachers
  • Evaluating professors
  • The correspondence principle
  • 6. Work
  • Paid work
  • Emotional labor
  • Equal pay?
  • Unequal opportunity : the glass ceiling, the glass elevator, and the sticky floor
  • Wage gap between women and men
  • Discrimination
  • Human capital
  • Organization of jobs
  • Homosociality
  • Gender segregation of the Labor Market
  • Gender gap in promotion
  • Comparable worth policies
  • Retirement
  • Masculinity and homeless men
  • The feminization of poverty
  • Unpaid work through the life cycle
  • Children and housework
  • Socialization theory
  • Rational choice theory
  • Feminist theory
  • Globalization and gender
  • WID, WAD, and GAD.
  • 7. Families
  • Marriage
  • Marriage as a legal contract and the challenge of gay rights activists
  • History of marriage in the United States
  • Marriage promotion in the United States
  • Love and marriage
  • Widowhood
  • Parenting and caregiving
  • Motherhood mystique
  • Work and family in Latino and African American families
  • Working mothers and the Mommy Wars
  • Welfare mothers
  • Temporary aid to needy families
  • Parenting by fathers
  • The Fatherhood Responsibility Movement
  • Biology and parenting
  • Elder care
  • Gendered styles of care work
  • Grandparents and care work
  • International comparisons of family support programs
  • Divorce
  • Gendered economics of divorce
  • Challenges of divorce for men
  • Variation of divorce laws in different nations
  • South African divorce laws
  • Covenant divorce in the United States
  • Repudiation in Muslim nations
  • 8. Violence
  • Gendered continuum of violence
  • Street harassment : a geography of fear
  • Men's personal safety and gendered violence
  • Rape and domestic violence
  • Accounting for rape : evolutionary theory, individual psychology, and power inequality
  • Studies of domestic violence
  • From universality to intersectionality
  • Beyond criminal justice : marginalized battered women
  • State violence against men
  • The prison-industrial complex
  • Sexual violence in men's prisons
  • Gendered violence in conflict zones
  • Guatemala
  • CEDAW, the International Criminal Court, and Security council Resolution 1325
  • 9. Gender and race based illness : diseases of the division of labor
  • Health and illness as social issues
  • Nation and life expectancy
  • Gender and life expectancy
  • Sex, gender and health : gendered division of labor
  • Health risks and benefits of women's employment in the West
  • Poor women's health risks on the job in the Global South
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Toxins and reproductive risk
  • Gendered illness
  • Hysteria
  • Frigidity
  • Eating disorders
  • Men's body crises
  • Masculinity as a health risk
  • Masculinity and hearth disease
  • Stratification and inequality in the health care system
  • Care work
  • Women's health movements
  • Abortion in the United States
  • Beyond Roe v. Wade
  • Women of color and sterilization abuse
  • Racism and classism of sterilization
  • Globalizing sterilization
  • Gender and the global AIDS pandemic
  • Behavioral and educational approaches
  • Structural violence and the women's epidemic
  • 10. Politics, prison, and the military
  • Politics and the State
  • Electoral politics
  • Voting rights
  • The gender gap in voting
  • Women elected officials
  • Gender and campaigns
  • Meritocratic remedies
  • Affirmative Action remedies
  • Political institutions : the courts and prisons
  • Young people in the Criminal Justice System
  • The War on Drugs
  • Political institutions : the military
  • Women in combat
  • Gender harassment in the military
  • Masculinity and heterosexuality in the military
  • Women and peace.
  • 11. Popular culture, media, and the spectacle of sports
  • Mass media and gender
  • Gender on television
  • Symbolic annihilation
  • Gender stereotypes
  • Gender in advertising
  • Advertising masculinity
  • Men and beer
  • Advertising femininity in three nations
  • Gender in US advertising
  • Gender in Turkish advertising
  • Gender in Japaneses advertising
  • Gender in film
  • Childrens' movies
  • Gender and the Internet
  • Sexualization of girls and women in media
  • Media theory
  • Resisting media
  • Music videos
  • Spectacle of sports
  • History of sports and manliness
  • Gay athletes
  • Initiation rites and football
  • Dangers of masculinity
  • Mexican baseball players challenge hegemonic masculinity of sports
  • Sportswomen
  • TItle IX
  • International efforts to bring women into sports
  • Women athletes, homophobia, and heterosexism
  • 12. Religion
  • Religion as an institution
  • Importance of religion across the globe
  • Religion and gender
  • Abrahamic religions
  • Catholicism
  • Islam
  • Practice of wearing a hijab
  • Women and the hijab in the United States
  • Perspectives of Islam in the United Kingdom
  • Buddhism
  • religion and gender : fundamentalism
  • Muslim fundamentalism
  • Christian fundamentalism
  • Fundamentalist views of masculinity
  • Fundamentalist fathers
  • Evangelical feminists
  • Hindu fundamentalism
  • Women in the pulpit
  • The Da Vinci Code and ancient religious views of women
  • Religion as a free space in oppressive cultures
  • Religion as a base of resistance
  • Women activists in Sri Lanka
  • Religion in the American Civil Rights Movement
  • Challenging religion from within
  • Feminist theoretical models
  • Classical theory on religion : Durkheim, Marx, and Weber
  • 13. Gender and globalization
  • The Development Paradigm
  • Beyond the rural : export processing zones
  • The sustenance economy
  • Feminist political ecology : beyond production.

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