The Kaleidoscope of Gender

Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine is Professor Emerita of sociology at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. She received her PhD from Syracuse University and her BA from the State University of New York at Albany. Kay taught a wide range of courses, such as sociology of gender, senior seminar in sociology, sociology of bodies and emotions, sociology of consumerism, and human sexuality. Her publications include articles on teaching sociology, on women’s bodies and emotions, on gender and qualitative research, and on the sociology of art museums. Kay is coeditor of Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015). She is the founding director of women’s studies at Nazareth College and a longtime member of Sociologists for Women in Society and the American Sociological Association. She has also served as president of the New York State Sociological Association. Kay and her life partner, Paul J. Burgett, University of Rochester vice president and professor of music, are devotees of the arts and world travel.Mary Nell Trautner is Associate Professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She earned her PhD and MA from the University of Arizona and her BA from Southwestern University. She is an award-winning teacher of courses in sociology of gender, criminology, sociology of law, and social problems. Mary Nell is an author of a forthcoming active learning textbook on social problems, and has published a variety of articles on topics ranging from physical appearance bias and images of women in popular media to day labor workers’ legal knowledge and environmental pollution. She is active in the American Sociological Association and Law & Society Association. In her free time, she enjoys travel and scuba diving.Joan Z. Spade is Professor Emerita of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. She received her PhD from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; her MA from the University of Rochester; and her BA from the State University of New York at Geneseo. In addition to courses on gender, Joan taught courses on education, family, research methods, and statistics. She published articles on rape culture in college fraternities and on work and family, including women’s and men’s orientations toward work. She has also coedited two books on education and published articles on education, including research on tracking, and gender and education. Joan was active in Sociologists for Women in Society, Eastern Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Association. In addition to visiting children and grandchildren with her significant other, she enjoys RVing, music and the arts, travel, and being outdoors.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: PrismsChapter 1: The Prism Of Gender - Catherine G. ValentineReading 1. Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling With Activism - Barbara J. RismanReading 2. What It Means to Be Gendered Me - Betsy LucalReading 3. Reflecting on Intersex: 25 Years of Activism, Mobilization, and Change - Georgiann Davis and Sharon PrevesReading 4. “I Don’t Like Passing as a Straight Woman”: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership - Carla A. PfefferReading 5. Masculinities in Global Perspective: Hegemony, Contestation, and Changing Structures of Power - Raewyn ConnellReading 6. Multiple Genders Among Native Americans - Serena NandaChapter 2: The Interaction Of Gender With Other Socially Constructed Prisms - Catherine G. Valentine with Joan Z. SpadeReading 7. Intersectionality: A Transformative Paradigm in Feminist Theory and Social Justice - Bonnie Thornton Dill and Marla H. KohlmanReading 8. On Violence, Intersectionality and Transversal Politics - Patricia Hill CollinsReading 9. Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender Across Cultural Worlds - Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. JohnsonReading 10. Protecting Caste Livelihoods on the Western Coast of India: An Intersectional Analysis of Udupi’s Fisherwomen - Kaveri TharaReading 11. Intersectionality in a Transnational World - Bandana PurkayasthaChapter 3: Gender And The Prism Of Culture - Catherine G. ValentineReading 12. “It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference - Christine HelliwellReading 13. Conceptualizing Thai Genderscapes: Transformation and Continuity in the Thai Sex/Gender System - Dredge Byung’chu KängReading 14. Nocturnal Queers: Rent Boys’ Masculinity in Istanbul - Cenk ÖzbayReading 15. Native American Men-Women, Lesbians, Two-Spirits: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives - Sabine LangReading 16. Gender and Power - Maria Alexandra LepowskyPart II: PatternsChapter 4: Learning And Doing Gender - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. SpadeReading 17. The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child: Parents’ Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance - Elizabeth P. RahillyReading 18. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela MustoReading 19. Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters - Janice McCabe, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Daniel TopeReading 20. “Cowboy Up!”: Non-Hegemonic Representations of Masculinity in Children’s Television Programming - Kristen MyersReading 21. What Gender Is Science? - Maria CharlesChapter 5: Buying And Selling Gender - Mary Nell Trautner and Catherine G. ValentineReading 22. The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers - Adie NelsonReading 23. Marketing Manhood in a “Post-Feminist” Age - Kristen Barber and Tristan BridgesReading 24. Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender - Jennifer Dawn CarlsonReading 25. Performing Third World Poverty: Racialized Femininities in Sex Work - Kimberly HoangReading 26. Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class, and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men - Toni Calasanti and Neal KingChapter 6: Tracing Gender’s Mark On Bodies, Sexualities, And Emotions - Catherine G. ValentineReading 27. Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador - Erynn Masi de CasanovaReading 28. Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers - Orna Sasson-LevyReading 29. “Freedom to” and “Freedom from”: A New Vision for Sex-Positive Politics - Breanne FahsReading 30. “I Like the Way You Move”: Theorizing Fat, Black and Sexy - Courtney J. Patterson-FayeReading 31. “Malu”: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty in Transnational Indonesia - L. Ayu SaraswatiChapter 7: Gender At Work - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. SpadeReading 32. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan AckerReading 33. Gendered Organizations in the New Economy - Christine L. Williams, Chandra Muller, and Kristine KilanskiReading 34. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey WingfieldReading 35. Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities - Erin ReidReading 36. Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work - Kristen SchiltReading 37. (Un)Changing Institutions: Work, Family, and Gender in the New Economy - Amy S. WhartonChapter 8: Gender In Intimate Relationships - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. SpadeReading 38. Negotiating Courtship: Reconciling Egalitarian Ideals with Traditional Gender Norms - Ellen LamontReading 39. Straight Girls Kissing - Leila J. Rupp and Verta TaylorReading 40. Privileging the Bromance: A Critical Appraisal of Romantic and Bromantic Relationships - Stefan Robinson, Adam White, and Eric AndersonReading 41. The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys: Navigating the Controlling Image of the “Thug” - Dawn Marie DowReading 42. When Dad Stays Home Too: Paternity Leave, Gender, and Parenting - Erin M. RehelReading 43. Mothers, Fathers, and “Mathers”: Negotiating a Lesbian Co-Parental Identity - Irene Padavic and Jonniann ButterfieldChapter 9: Enforcing Gender - Catherine G. Valentine with Joan Z. SpadeReading 44. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. ArmstrongReading 45. Digitizing Rape Culture: Online Sexual Violence and the Power of the Digital Photograph - Alexa DodgeReading 46. Gender-Based Violence Against Men and Boys in Darfur: The Gender–Genocide Nexus - Gabrielle Ferrales, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Suzy McElrathReading 47. Gendered Homophobia and the Contradictions of Workplace Discrimination for Women in the Building Trades - Amy M. Denissen and Abigail C. SaguyReading 48. “Who’s the Slut, Who’s the Whore?”: Street Harassment in the Workplace Among Female Sex Workers in New Zealand - Lynzi ArmstrongReading 49. Punctuating Accountability: How Discursive Aggression Regulates Transgender People - Stef M. ShusterPart III: PossibilitiesChapter 10: Nothing Is Forever - Catherine G. ValentineReading 50. Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice - Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutierrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, and Chikako TakeshitaReading 51. #FemFuture: Online Revolution - Courtney E. Martin and Vanessa ValentiReading 52. Making a Choice or Taking a Stand? Choice Feminism, Political Engagement and the Contemporary Feminist Movement - Rachel ThwaitesReading 53. Ask a Feminist: A Conversation With Cathy J. Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism - Cathy J. Cohen and Sarah J. JacksonReading 54. Forks in the Road of Men’s Gender Politics: Men’s Rights vs. Feminist Allies - Michael A. MessnerAbout the Editors

"Kaleidoscope of Gender provides groundbreaking research by leading scholars in the field with diverse expertise, knowledge, and academic training. The book has a great selection of readings that an instructor can choose from. The layout of the book is also helpful for novice/new instructors who have never taught a gender class."