The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities

by Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine (Editor), Mary Nell Trautner (Editor), Joan Z. Spade (Editor)

Overview

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.

The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and its three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on the prisms through which gender is shaped, the patterns which gender takes, and the possibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally. 

Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner, and the work of Joan Spade, focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving.  The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506389080
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	616
Sales rank:	722,992
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Prisms
Chapter 1: The Prism Of Gender - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 1. Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling With Activism - Barbara J. Risman
Reading 2. What It Means to Be Gendered Me - Betsy Lucal
Reading 3. Reflecting on Intersex: 25 Years of Activism, Mobilization, and Change - Georgiann Davis and Sharon Preves
Reading 4. “I Don’t Like Passing as a Straight Woman”: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership - Carla A. Pfeffer
Reading 5. Masculinities in Global Perspective: Hegemony, Contestation, and Changing Structures of Power - Raewyn Connell
Reading 6. Multiple Genders Among Native Americans - Serena Nanda
Chapter 2: The Interaction Of Gender With Other Socially Constructed Prisms - Catherine G. Valentine with Joan Z. Spade
Reading 7. Intersectionality: A Transformative Paradigm in Feminist Theory and Social Justice - Bonnie Thornton Dill and Marla H. Kohlman
Reading 8. On Violence, Intersectionality and Transversal Politics - Patricia Hill Collins
Reading 9. Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender Across Cultural Worlds - Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson
Reading 10. Protecting Caste Livelihoods on the Western Coast of India: An Intersectional Analysis of Udupi’s Fisherwomen - Kaveri Thara
Reading 11. Intersectionality in a Transnational World - Bandana Purkayastha
Chapter 3: Gender And The Prism Of Culture - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 12. “It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference - Christine Helliwell
Reading 13. Conceptualizing Thai Genderscapes: Transformation and Continuity in the Thai Sex/Gender System - Dredge Byung’chu Käng
Reading 14. Nocturnal Queers: Rent Boys’ Masculinity in Istanbul - Cenk Özbay
Reading 15. Native American Men-Women, Lesbians, Two-Spirits: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives - Sabine Lang
Reading 16. Gender and Power - Maria Alexandra Lepowsky
Part II: Patterns
Chapter 4: Learning And Doing Gender - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. Spade
Reading 17. The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child: Parents’ Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance - Elizabeth P. Rahilly
Reading 18. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela Musto
Reading 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 Tope
Reading 20. “Cowboy Up!”: Non-Hegemonic Representations of Masculinity in Children’s Television Programming - Kristen Myers
Reading 21. What Gender Is Science? - Maria Charles
Chapter 5: Buying And Selling Gender - Mary Nell Trautner and Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 22. The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers - Adie Nelson
Reading 23. Marketing Manhood in a “Post-Feminist” Age - Kristen Barber and Tristan Bridges
Reading 24. Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender - Jennifer Dawn Carlson
Reading 25. Performing Third World Poverty: Racialized Femininities in Sex Work - Kimberly Hoang
Reading 26. Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class, and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men - Toni Calasanti and Neal King
Chapter 6: Tracing Gender’s Mark On Bodies, Sexualities, And Emotions - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 27. Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador - Erynn Masi de Casanova
Reading 28. Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers - Orna Sasson-Levy
Reading 29. “Freedom to” and “Freedom from”: A New Vision for Sex-Positive Politics - Breanne Fahs
Reading 30. “I Like the Way You Move”: Theorizing Fat, Black and Sexy - Courtney J. Patterson-Faye
Reading 31. “Malu”: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty in Transnational Indonesia - L. Ayu Saraswati
Chapter 7: Gender At Work - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. Spade
Reading 32. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan Acker
Reading 33. Gendered Organizations in the New Economy - Christine L. Williams, Chandra Muller, and Kristine Kilanski
Reading 34. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences With Women’s Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield
Reading 35. Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities - Erin Reid
Reading 36. Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work - Kristen Schilt
Reading 37. (Un)Changing Institutions: Work, Family, and Gender in the New Economy - Amy S. Wharton
Chapter 8: Gender In Intimate Relationships - Mary Nell Trautner with Joan Z. Spade
Reading 38. Negotiating Courtship: Reconciling Egalitarian Ideals with Traditional Gender Norms - Ellen Lamont
Reading 39. Straight Girls Kissing - Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor
Reading 40. Privileging the Bromance: A Critical Appraisal of Romantic and Bromantic Relationships - Stefan Robinson, Adam White, and Eric Anderson
Reading 41. The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys: Navigating the Controlling Image of the “Thug” - Dawn Marie Dow
Reading 42. When Dad Stays Home Too: Paternity Leave, Gender, and Parenting - Erin M. Rehel
Reading 43. Mothers, Fathers, and “Mathers”: Negotiating a Lesbian Co-Parental Identity - Irene Padavic and Jonniann Butterfield
Chapter 9: Enforcing Gender - Catherine G. Valentine with Joan Z. Spade
Reading 44. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong
Reading 45. Digitizing Rape Culture: Online Sexual Violence and the Power of the Digital Photograph - Alexa Dodge
Reading 46. Gender-Based Violence Against Men and Boys in Darfur: The Gender–Genocide Nexus - Gabrielle Ferrales, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Suzy McElrath
Reading 47. Gendered Homophobia and the Contradictions of Workplace Discrimination for Women in the Building Trades - Amy M. Denissen and Abigail C. Saguy
Reading 48. “Who’s the Slut, Who’s the Whore?”: Street Harassment in the Workplace Among Female Sex Workers in New Zealand - Lynzi Armstrong
Reading 49. Punctuating Accountability: How Discursive Aggression Regulates Transgender People - Stef M. Shuster
Part III: Possibilities
Chapter 10: Nothing Is Forever - Catherine G. Valentine
Reading 50. Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice - Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutierrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, and Chikako Takeshita
Reading 51. #FemFuture: Online Revolution - Courtney E. Martin and Vanessa Valenti
Reading 52. Making a Choice or Taking a Stand? Choice Feminism, Political Engagement and the Contemporary Feminist Movement - Rachel Thwaites
Reading 53. Ask a Feminist: A Conversation With Cathy J. Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism - Cathy J. Cohen and Sarah J. Jackson
Reading 54. Forks in the Road of Men’s Gender Politics: Men’s Rights vs. Feminist Allies - Michael A. Messner
About the Editors

Editorial Reviews

A good selection of contextual chapters and readings that provides an overview of current and cutting edge research on gender studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.”

Pamela Mc Mullin-Messier

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.”

Hortencia Jimenez

“A good selection of contextual chapters and readings that provides an overview of current and cutting edge research on gender studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.”

Pamela McMullin-Messier