Doing Gender Diversity

Rebecca F. Plante is associate professor of sociology at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Plante has written Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective (Westview, 2006) and coedited (with Michael S. Kimmel) Sexualities: Identities, behaviours, and Society (Oxford, 2004).Lis M. Maurer is the founding coordinator of The centre for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Maurer has been a sexuality educator, consultant, and trainer for more than twenty years.

• Empirical ~Theory Section I The Basics of Gender CHAPTER 1 GENDER DIVERSITY AND THE BINARY ?~ 1 Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman Doing Gender ?~ 2 Judith Lorber Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender ?~ 3 Patricia Hill Collins Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection @ 4 Jesse Walker The Death of David Reimer: A Tale of Sex, Science, and Abuse @# 5 Zachary I. Nataf Whatever I Feel ... % 6 Suzanne J. Kessler Defining and Producing Genitals + 7 Catherine Lord Subject: Her Baldness Meets Beth and Gets High on Gender @+ 8 Kate Bornstein Hoowahyoo? Chapter 1 Study Questions CHAPTER 2 LEARNING HOW TO DO GENDER ~ 9 Abigail A. Fuller What Difference Does Difference Make? Women, Race-Ethnicity, Social Class, and Social Change % 10 Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood % 11 C. J. Pascoe Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse @ 12 Robert Jensen Masculine, Feminine or Human? % 13 Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha More than Men: Latino Feminist Masculinities and Intersectionality % 14 Tracey Lee Trans(re)lations: Lesbian and Female to Male Transsexual Accounts of Identity %# 15 Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: Doing Gender across Cultural Worlds Chapter 2 Study Questions Section II The Microcosm of Gender: Individuals in Context CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING THE GENDERED BODY % 16 Dionne P. Stephens and April L. Few The Effects of Images of African American Women in Hip Hop on Early Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Relationships #% 17 Virginia Braun In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery @+ 18 Max Beck My Life as an Intersexual %+ 19 Jamison Green Part of the Package: Ideas of Masculinity among Male-Identified Transpeople @+# 20 Sean 201 Diary of an Anorexic %~ 21 Kathl

"Plante and Maurer have brought together a collection that recognizes and wrestles with the diversity that characterizes contemporary gender studies, identity, and expression. Doing Gender Diversity is a well-considered text that promises to advance students' theoretical and empirical understandings of gender, race, class, and sexuality." --Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University "In Doing Gender Diversity, Plante and Maurer have assembled an outstanding collection of readings that explore the cultural construction and personal negotiation of gender by looking at diversity in practices and performances. Avoiding the trap of presenting gender diversity as 'freaks on parade,' they compile works examining normative and non-normative ways of embodying gender in the context of hegemonic ideologies of gender. While US-focused, this reader incorporates a diverse selection of classic theoretical works, contemporary empirical analyses, and first-person narratives and provides an excellent foundation for undergraduate explorations of the diverse ways of 'doing' gender." --Erin Calhoun Davis, Cornell College "Finally, the quintessential collection of gender and sexuality studies readings. Plante and Maurer have brought together an interdisciplinary reader that spans the breadth of the field...A fundamental addition to anyone's library." --Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College, State University of New York "Plante and Maurer's Doing Gender Diversity is a highly innovative anthology that critically examines unexplored and taken for granted aspects of gender normalcy and gender privilege. This reader is a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary works that is a must-read for a diversity of gender scholars across multiple fields." --Sharon E. Preves, Hamline University "This deeply thought-provoking collection of new and classic essays is a must for students of gender and genders in all their complexities." --Peggy J. Kleinplatz, University of Ottawa "This is an excellent anthology that will encourage undergraduate students to think critically about gender diversity. It will be useful for faculty members teaching social science courses about gender or women's studies and who want to have a rich collection of readings about gender in micro- and macro-contexts. Students will enjoy and learn from the readings in this new anthology." --Teaching Sociology