Authors: Estelle Disch
ISBN-13: 9780073380063, ISBN-10: 0073380067
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: January 2008
Edition: 5th Edition
Estelle Disch is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she has been active in curricular transformation, general education reform, and faculty development. She has written extensively on pedagogical issues in diverse classrooms. Her research focuses on the effects of sexual abuse by professionals and on assessing learning in university courses. She has served as a consultant and trainer related to creating more
open and accepting campus climates and has run many workshops for professionals related to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
This anthology for undergraduates demonstrates the ways that gender operates across numerous categories, including race, sexual orientation, class, age and disability. Disch (sociology, U. of Massachusetts, Boston) draws from a wide range of sources, such as research articles, essays and personal narratives, to provide accessible and provocative readings representing a plurality of perspectives and experiences. The fourth edition strengthens the emphasis on women's rights as human rights, gay marriage and the effects of welfare reform. It addresses immigration, health and war and includes a gender analysis of the events at Abu Ghraib. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
An anthology of provocative readings that force readers to face the complexity of gender and its varied relationships to power. Some themes are social contexts of gender, gender socialization, embodiment, and communication. Other topics are sexuality, families, education, paid work and unemployment, health and illness, violence, and a world that is truly human. The editor is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1 | The Puerto Rican dummy and the merciful son | 31 |
2 | From nothing, a consciousness | 41 |
3 | The past is ever present : recognizing the new racism | 48 |
4 | Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today | 63 |
5 | "J.A.P"-slapping : the politics of scapegoating | 67 |
6 | White privilege : unpacking the invisible knapsack | 71 |
7 | Controlled or autonomous : identity and the experience of the network, women living under Muslim laws | 76 |
8 | Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism | 81 |
9 | Patriarchy, the system : an it, not a he, a them or an us | 91 |
10 | Reflections on global governance and transnational feminist movements in an era of infinite war | 99 |
11 | The social construction of gender | 113 |
12 | Boyhood, organized sports, and the construction of masculinities | 120 |
13 | Who's the fairest of them all? | 137 |
14 | The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named Maria | 142 |
15 | He defies you still : the memoirs of a sissy | 147 |
16 | Growing up hidden | 153 |
17 | Beauty is the beast : psychological effects of the pursuit of the perfect female body | 162 |
18 | Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit | 173 |
19 | "A way outa no way" : eating problems among African American, Latina, and white women | 176 |
20 | Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space | 191 |
21 | Taking it | 194 |
22 | Do you remember me? | 197 |
23 | I'm not fat, I'm Latina | 201 |
24 | The tyranny of the esthetic : surgery's most intimate violation | 203 |
25 | For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend | 215 |
26 | You just don't understand : women and men in conversation | 216 |
27 | Real men don't cry ... and other "uncool" myths | 221 |
28 | The new momism | 226 |
29 | Claiming Jezebel : black female subjectivity and sexual expressions in hip-hop | 239 |
30 | The new girls network : women, technology, and feminism | 248 |
31 | Where are the women? : the strange case of the missing feminists. When was the last time you saw one on TV? | 252 |
32 | How men have (a) sex | 264 |
33 | The myth of the sexual athlete | 274 |
34 | Reproductive rights : a disability rights issue | 279 |
35 | The impact of multiple marginalization | 285 |
36 | Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power | 293 |
37 | The transformation of family life | 304 |
38 | Bloodmothers, othermothers, and women-centered networks | 314 |
39 | Dilemmas of involved fatherhood | 321 |
40 | Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response | 331 |
41 | I am a man | 337 |
42 | What is marriage for? | 341 |
43 | Missing in interaction | 354 |
44 | "What about the boys?" : what the current debates tell us - and don't tell us - about boys in school | 361 |
45 | Conflict within the Ivory Tower | 376 |
46 | Black and female : reflections on graduate school | 388 |
47 | The "success" of welfare reform | 401 |
48 | Sixty cents to a man's dollar | 417 |
49 | Why are there no male Asian anchormen on TV? | 425 |
50 | The effects of affirmative action on other stakeholders | 430 |
51 | "Global woman" | 443 |
52 | America's dirty work : migrant maids and modern-day slavery | 453 |
53 | The globetrotting sneaker | 462 |
54 | Women, violence, and resistance | 478 |
55 | The ultimate growth industry : trafficking in women and girls | 491 |
56 | Where race and gender meet : racism, hate crimes, and pornography | 496 |
57 | Homophobia in straight men | 499 |
58 | Stopping sexual harassment : a challenge for community education | 501 |
59 | How safe is America? | 511 |
60 | Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib : making feminist sense of an American military scandal | 514 |
61 | Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity | 524 |
62 | Masculinities of men's health : moving toward post-superman era prevention | 541 |
63 | Health, social class and African-American women | 559 |
64 | Reproductive issues are essential survival issues for the Asian-American communities | 575 |
65 | Why the precautionary principle? : a meditation on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the breasts of mothers | 578 |
66 | Does silencio = muerte? : notes on translating the AIDS epidemic | 582 |
67 | To be poor and transgender | 589 |
68 | Statement of principles | 598 |
69 | The blow up ... a clash of realities | 599 |
70 | American Indian women : at the center of indigenous resistance in contemporary North America | 605 |
71 | Toward a new civic leadership : the Africana criminal justice project | 613 |
72 | Organizing for peace in Israel : why Israeli women want a peace movement of their own | 621 |
73 | Women's human rights : it's about time! | 627 |