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Gender and Family
Friedman, Ellen G. and Corinne Squire, Morality USA.
Rubin, Lillian B, “The Transformation of Family Life.”
hooks, bell. “Witnessing the Death of Love: She Hears Him Tell the Woman That He Will Kill Her.”
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. “Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way.”
Townsend, Nicholas W. “Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women.”
Hunter, Nan D. “Sexual Dissent and the Family.”
Tapahonso, Luci. “Blue Horses Rush In.”
Gender and Popular Culture
Jhally, Sut, “Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture.”
Kilbourne, Jean. “Buy This 24-year-old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free.”
Sells, Laura. “Where Do the Mermaids Stand?”
Davis, Eisa. “Sexism and the Art of Feminist Hip-Hop Maintenance.”
“How Does a Supermodel Do Feminism? An Interview with Veronica Webb.”
Vavrus, Mary Douglas. “Putting Ally on Trial: Contesting Postfeminism in Popular Culture.”
Gender and Sexuality
Chesler, Phyllis. “Letters to a Young Feminist on Sex and Reproductive Freedom.”
Stoltenberg, John. “How Men Have (A) Sex.”
Steedman, Mercedes E. “Who's on Top? Heterosexual Practices and Male Dominance During the Sex Act.”
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings.”
Scott, D. Travers. “Le Freak, C'Est Chic! Le Fag, Quelle Drag!”
Gender and Work
Kelly, Rita Mae. “Sex-Role Spillover: Personal, Familial, and Organizational Roles.”
Hochschild, Arlie Russell and Ann Machung. “The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home.”
Praeger, Roberta. “A World Worth Living In.”
Allen, Kim. “The 3rd WWWave: Who We Are, and Why We Need to Speak” (http://www.io.com/~wwwave/addresses/kimaddress.html).
Hill, Anita. “Sexual Harrassment: The Nature of the Beast.”
Nonn, Timothy. “Hitting Bottom: Homelessness, Poverty, and Masculinity.”
Gender and Global Perspectives
Human Rights Watch. “The Global Women's Human Rights Movement.”
Enloe, Cynthia. “The Globetrotting Sneaker.”
al-Idlibi, Ulfat. “The Women's Baths.”
Hughes, Donna M. “The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry.”
Afkhami, Mahnaz. “Empathy Among Women on a Global Scale.”
Summary
Part of the “Longman Topics” series, Issues of Gender explores how gender roles operate in and through work, sexuality, popular culture, family, and across global perspectives.
This brief collection of non-fiction and fiction essays examines constructions of femininities and masculinities and foregrounds intersections of race, class, and sexual preference as both shaping and shaped by gender. The selections highlight various perspectives on complex issues such as gender and global perspectives, gender and popular culture, and gender and family.
Divided into five chapters, each features six to eight essays of varying lengths. Brief apparatus encourages students to think critically about the ideas raised and challenges them to reconsider personal perspectives on gender issues in light of the readings.
“Longman Topics” are brief attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.
