Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings

Joya Misra is a professor of sociology and public policy at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research primarily explores labor market inequality and poverty. She has published in leading journals, including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Social Forces. Mahala Dyer Stewart is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts. She has been a teaching assistant and instructor for several courses covering gender. She serves as one of the managing editors for Gender & Society, and has successfully directed the journal′s use of blogging and social networking to increase circulation, promote awareness of its content, and build a community of readers. Marni Alyson Brown is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She has been teaching gender for several years and has experience with teacher training programs and undergraduate curriculum development. She has been published in Teaching Sociology, Sociology of Sport, and contributed to the reader Sex Matters. She is engaged in a few writing projects, including a project examining the exploitation of graduate students and adjuncts at colleges and universities as well as a project on student’s attitudes towards the pedagogy of race and gender in the classroom. Furthermore, she is working on a project that explores the everyday intersectional experiences of gay men and women.

• PrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgmentsPART I: THEORIZING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY1. Doing Gender - Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman2. Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations - Cecilia L. Ridgeway3. Defining Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins4. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Possibility of Change in Gender Relations - Claire Duncanson5. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression - Jane Ward6. Globalizing Gender Issues: Many Voices, Different Choices - Christine E. BosePART II: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND THE METHODS OF FEMINIST RESEARCH7. Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities - Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree8. Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race - Andrew M. Penner and Aliya Saperstein9. Becoming a “Trusted Outsider”: Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Ethnographic Research - Sandra Meike Bucerius10. Studying Each Other: On Agency, Constraint, and Positionality in the Field - Tey Meadow11. The Sociology of Gender in Southern Perspective - Raewyn ConnellPART III: BODIES AND IDENTITY12. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools - Karin A. Martin13. Perilous Patches and Pitstaches: Imagined Versus Lived Experiences of Women’s Body Hair Growth - Breanne Fahs14. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons - Miliann Kang15. Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders - Tristan S. Bridges16. Body Modification and Trans Men: The Lived Realities of Gender Transition and Partner Intimacy - Katelynn Bishop17. Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry - Kimberly Kay HoangPART IV: CULTURE AND MEDIA18. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films - Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak19. Is He Boyfriend Material? Representation of Males in Teenage Girls’ Magazines - Kirsten B. Firminger20. Masculinity Dilemmas: Sexuality and Intimacy Talk Among Christians and Goths - Amy C. Wilkins21. “What Makes a Woman a Woman?” Versus “Our First Lady of Sport”: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the South African Media Coverage of Caster Semenya - Cheryl Cooky, Ranissa Dycus, and Shari L. Dworkin22. Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants - Oluwakemi M. BalogunPART V: RELIGION23. Women of God - Orit Avishai24. Negotiating Gendered Religious Space: The Particularities of Patriarchy in an African American Mosque - Pamela J. Prickett25. The Stakes of Gender and Heterosexuality - Melanie Heath26. Grit, Guts, and Vanilla Beans: Godly Masculinity in the Ex-Gay Movement - Lynne Gerber27. Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia - Rachel RinaldoPART VI: FAMILIES AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS28. Strength and Respectability: Black Women’s Negotiation of Racialized Gender Ideals and the Role of Daughter–Father Relationships - Maria S. Johnson29. “How Could You Do This to Me?”: How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Latinas Negotiate Sexual Identity With Their Families - Katie Acosta30. Gendered Power Relations Among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies - Mignon R. Moore31. Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism: Negotiating Structure and Agency in Transgender Families - Carla A. Pfeffer32. Transnational Fathering: Gendered Conflicts, Distant Disciplining and Emotional Gaps - Rhacel Salazar ParreñasPART VII: EDUCATION33. Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College - Rachel E. Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura McCloud34. Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools - Simone Ispa-Landa35. “Not Out to Start a Revolution”: Race, Gender, and Emotional Restraint Among Black University Men - Amy Wilkins36. “Now Why Do You Want to Know About That?”: Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth - Lorena García37. “Boys Over Here, Girls Over There”: A Critical Literacy of Binary Gender in Schools - Susan W. Woolley38. Un/Doing Gender? A Case Study of School Policy and Practice in Zambia - Monisha BajajPART VIII: SPORT39. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela Musto40. The Female Signifiant in All-Women’s Amateur Roller Derby - Jennifer Carlson41. “We’re, Like, a Cute Rugby Team”: How Whiteness and Heterosexuality Shape Women’s Sense of Belonging in Rugby - Anima Adjepong42. Transgender Inclusion and the Changing Face of Lesbian Softball Leagues - Ann Travers and Jillian Deri43. “Silver Cups Versus Ice Creams”: Parental Involvement With the Construction of Gender in the Field of Their Son’s Soccer - Inge Claringbould and Johanna AdriaansePART IX: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS44. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan Acker45. A “Major Career Woman”? How Women Develop Early Expectations About Work - Sarah Damaske46. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield47. Hegemonic Masculinity at Work in the Gay Adult Film Industry - Nathaniel B. Burke48. Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble? - Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell49. Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Market-Embedded Labor and the Gender Organization of Global Service Work in China - Eileen M. OtisPART X: VIOLENCE, CRIME, AND INCARCERATION50. Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse - Heather R. Hlavka51. Rehabilitating Criminal Selves: Gendered Strategies in Community Corrections - Jessica J. B. Wyse52. The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity - Victor M. Rios53. “We’re Like Community”: Collective Identity and Collective Efficacy Among Transgender Women in Prisons for Men - Lori Sexton and Valerie Jenness54. Gender Violence Revisited: Lessons From Violent Victimization of Transgender Identified Individuals - Daniela Jauk55. Gendered Violence, Cultural Otherness, and Honour Crimes in Canadian National Logics - Dana M. OlwanPART XI: POLITICS, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS56. The International Women’s Movement and Women’s Political Representation, 1893–2003 - Pamela Paxton, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jennifer L. Green57. Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European Union - Mieke Verloo58. “Don’t Deport Our Daddies”: Gendering State Deportation Practices and Immigrant Organizing - Monisha Das Gupta59. Brothers and Others: Organizing Masculinity, Disorganizing Workers - Poulami Roychowdhury60. Patriarchal Accommodations: Women’s Mobility and Policies of Gender Difference From Urban Iran to Migrant Mexico - Abigail Andrews and Nazanin Shahrokni

"[Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings] is intersectional, updated, and (for lack of a better term) more hip in what it covers."