Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives: Original Readings / Edition 1

by Dana Vannoy, Beth Hess

Overview

Dana Vannoy's Gender Mosaics is a collection of original essays written expressly for this volume by eminent gender scholars. The essays represent a rich variety of writing styles, mixing theory, data, personal experience, and expressions of politics and policy. The essays are clearly written and accessible for undergraduates. While the focus of this volume centers on relations between women and men, the diversity of experience provided by the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation is also taken into account.

Gender Mosaics reflects a sociological point of view on gender. It emphasizes both the social construction of gender in everyday interactions and gender as a stratification system built into social institutions. Through these readings, students come to see how gendered behavior results in a stratification system in which men and women wield unequal power and opportunity for self-determination, both in personal relationships and in the social organizations of society.

Thought-provoking introductions to each article guide the student and ease instruction by identifying and explaining central issues, key concepts, and relationships among topics. This provides internal cohesiveness and structure to the selections. Discussion questions follow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195329988
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender and PowerUnit I. Intersections Among Systems of Inequality1. Multiracial Feminism, iJudith Lorber (with excerpts by Maxine Baca-Zinn, Bonnie Thorton Dill, and Patricia Hill Collins)/i2. Feminist Consciousness and Black Women, iPauline Terrelonge/i3. The Intersections of Race and Gender in White Supremacist Thought, iAbby L. Ferber/i4. Gender and Power in Native North America, iAngela Gonzales and Judy Kert/iUnit II. Learning to do Gender5. Gender and Identity, iJudith A. Howard and Ramira Alamilla/i6. Children's Experience of Gender: Habitus and Field, iSteven Carlton-Ford and Paula Houston/i7. Constructing Identities in Gay and Lesbian Communities, iElizabeth Kaminski and Verta Taylor/i8. Gender and Education in the United States, iJoan Z. Spade/i9. When Bodies Are Weapons: Masculinity and Violence in Sport, iMichael A. Messner/i10. Language and Patriarchy, iWilliam O'Barr/i11. The Impact of the Media on Gender Images, iCynthia M. Lont/iUnit III. Social Structure: Gender in the Family and Intimate Relationships12. Gender and Demographic Reality, iFrances K. Goldscheider and Michelle L. Rogers/i13. Twentieth-Century Changes in Economic Work and Family, iSandra E. Godwin and Barbara J. Risman/i14. Men, Women, and Housework, iScott Coltrane and Michele Adams/i15. Differences in His Marriage and Her Marriage, iTerri L. Orbuch and Susan G. Timmer/i16. The Challenge of Integrating Work and Family Life, iJennifer Campbell Worley and Dana Vannoy/i17. The Legacy of Patriarchy in Today's Russia, iLisa A. Cubbins/i18. Equity in Heterosexual and Homosexual Relationships, iPepper Schwartz and Amy E. Singer/i19. Gender and Friendship, iStacey J. Oliker/i20. Violence Against Women by Intimate Partners, iDemie Kurz/i21. Divorce Trends and Effects for Women and Men, iBeth Anne Shelton and Rebecca E. Deen/iUnit IV. Social Structure: Gender in the Economy and the Workplace22. Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force, iChristine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley/i23. Work-Family Conflict: Effects for Job Segregation and Career Perceptions, iDavid J. Maume, Jr./i24. Women, Men, and Engineering, iMary Frank Fox/i25. How Sex Gets Into Your Paycheck and How to Get It Out: The Gender Gap in Pay and Comparable Worth, iRonnie J. Steinberg/i26. The Gendered Nature of Emotional Labor in the Workplace, iMarcia L. Bellas/i27. Asian American Women: Immigration, Labor-Force Participation, and Activism, iLinda Trinh Vo/i28. Rethinking Official Measures of Poverty: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, iAngela Gardner Roux/i29. Retirement: Golden Years for Whom?, iToni Calasanti/iUnit V. Social Structure: Gender in Law and Politics30. Constitutional Law and Public Policy: Gender Equity, iDonna M. Nagy and Aviva Rose Rich/i31. Women's Participation in Electoral Politics: Myths and Realities, iAlesha Doan and Jan E. Leighley/i32. Gender, Sexuality, and the Military, iChris Bourg and Mady Wechsler Segal/i33. Gender Politics in Men's Movements, iStephen Whitaker/i34. Gender, Power, and Sexual Harassment, iGeorganne Runblad/i35. Gender Violence: Rape and Sexual Assault, iKathryn M. Feltey/i36. The Criminal Processing System: Girls and Women as Victims and Offenders, iJoanne Belknap/iUnit VI. Social Structure: Gender in Religion37. Women's Status in the Christian Church, iPaula Nesbitt, Jeanette Baust, and Emma Bailey/i38. Gender and Hebrew Biblical Studies, iS. Tamar Kamionkowski and Mychal Rosenbaum/i39. Ecofeminism and Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth, iRosemary Radford Reuther/i40. Gender and Judaism, iDawn Robinson Rose/iUnit VII. Social Structure: Gender in Health41. Men and Women: Health and Illness, iMary K. Zimmerman and Lisa Cox Hall/i42. Gender Hierarchies in Health Professions, iJudith Lorber/i43. Choices and Contexts: The Social Construction of Reproduction, iBeth Rushing/iUnit VIII. Thinking About the Potential for Change44. The Participation of Women and Men in the U.S. Labor Force: Trends and Future Prospects, iSuzanne Bianchi and Jane Lawler Dye/i45. Older Men as Invisible Men in Contemporary Society, iEdward H. Thompson, Jr./i46. Cuando Fuiste Mujer: Remaking "Woman" in Latino Cultures, iConsuelo Lopez-Springfield/i47. The International Women's Movement at Century's End, iMyra Marx Ferree and Mangala Subramaniam/iConclusions: Collapsing the Walls of Patriarchy and Masculine Hegemony