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Gender Through the Prism of Difference

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ISBN-10: 0195167643

ISBN-13: 9780195167641

Edition: 3rd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner

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The third edition of Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area--which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints--this book features many articles based on research done elsewhere throughout the world. The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction that sets the stage for understanding gender as a socially constructed experience. Featuring mostly new readings, the book covers timely subjects--such as gender and popular culture, Islam, and men and war--to help students make a…    
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Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 9.09" wide x 7.40" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.2

Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference
Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Difference
The Five Sexes, Revisited
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
Bargaining with Patriarchy
Masculinities and Globalization
Global Woman
Antiglobalization Pedagogies and Feminism
BodiesControl and Resistance
Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women''s Health
It''s a Big Fat Revolution
Strong and Large Black Women? Exploring Relationships Between Deviant Womanhood and Weight
To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas
Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports in Prison
What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender SystemViolence
Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Common Experiences in Different Countries
Acid Violence and Medical Care Bangladesh: Women''s Activism as Carework
Nationalism, War, and Archaization of Gender Relations in the Balkans
Gender, Class, and Terrorism
SexualitiesSexual Relations, Intimacy, Power
"I couldn''t ever picture myself having sex...": Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity
Male Discretion and Sexual Indiscretion in Working Class Mexico City
Because She Looks Like a Child
The Sex Tourist, The Expatriate, His Ex-Wife, and her "Other": The Politics of Loss, Difference, and DesireSexuality and Identity
The Globalization of Sexual Identities
Becoming 100% Straight
"Americans Have a Different Attitude": Family, Sexuality, and Gender in Filipina American Lives
Identities
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
The Rights and Wrongs of Identity Politics and Sexual Identities
Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz
Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender Across Cultural Worlds
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
FamiliesMotherhood, Fatherhood
The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships
Revision and Resistance: The Politics of Native Women''s Motherwork
"I''m Here but I''m There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood
"The Worms are Weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in EgyptWork and Families
Maid or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor
Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home, and Employment Among Hispanic Women
Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women
What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say About Marriage?VI. Constructing Gender in the Workplace
Gendering the Market: Temporality, Work, and Gender on a National Futures Exchange
Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants
"Their Logic Against Them": Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley
Go Away...But Stay Close Enough
Education and Schools
Naughty by Nature
How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives
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