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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The author uses both historical and cross-cultural approaches--as well as a focus on intersectionality and transgender issues--to help students understand the socially constructed nature of gender. Debunking ideas of what is normal and abnormal, this provocative book explores the core theories and topics of the course, including the gender of sexuality, the gender of friendship and dating, the gender of media and popular culture, and the gender of politics and power.

There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. The Gender of Bodies and Health. A Brief History of Bodies. The Beauty Myth. Gender and Health: Risky Masculinity and the Superman. Throwing Like a Girl. Chapter 8. The Gender of Marriage and Families. Something Old, Something New.

A Brief History of Marriage. The Demographics of Marriage. Who Does What? The Gendered Division of Labor. The Doctrine of Separate Spheres. The Division of Household Labor. Families in Transition. Chapter 9. The Gender of Work.

What Is Work? The Glass Ceiling and the Glass Escalator. Sex Segregation in the Workplace. Trans Men at Work. Chapter The Gender of Media and Popular Culture. The Media: An Interesting Institution. Transgender in the Media. Gender, Sexuality, and Slash Fiction. The Struggle Over Images. Sexuality in the Media. The Gender of Leisure. The Gender of Politics and Power.

Power: Good and Bad. Coercive Power. Gender Rights and Human Rights? Institutional Power: Defining Gender. Supplements Instructor Resource Site edge. Marisol White. Bakersfield College. Zabedia Nazim. Michelle Altieri. County College of Morris.

Clifford Leek. University of Northern Colorado. Dr Vida Samuel. Communications, Univ Of Connecticut-Stamford. Report this review. Key features. Additional discussions covering transgender issues include violence against trans women and specifically trans women of color, new research on transgender dating, power and politics as involved in transgender rights, and research on transgender families.

An expanded discussion in Chapter 1 explores new research on the complex, interactional relationship between biology and gender. Chapter 5 includes a discussion of asexuality as well as the bisexual umbrella , including identities such as pansexual and demisexual.

Additional tables and graphics demonstrate the latest research and statistics on gender. The perspective of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals , as well as queer theory , is found throughout the book.

The growing scholarship on the study of men and masculinity is included. Each chapter is filled with questions—starting with the chapter title itself—t o promote active inquiry into the meaning and role of gender in our lives. Cultural Artifact boxes push students to explore or further test the theories and concepts being discussed.

Question boxes serve as starting points for students and instructors in beginning their discussions and explorations of gender in their own lives A Big Questions feature get students to apply concepts and theories, think about integrating concepts and ideas, and make connections between concepts, theories, and topics. A Gender Exercise feature encourages students to become active learners and to engage in social science research techniques. A Theory Alert! Websites dedicated to addressing a variety of social problems related to gender are listed at the end of several chapters to provide a starting point for students interested in exploring social change.

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