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Informationen zum Autor Jodi O’Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the “Contemporary Sociological Perspectives” book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities . Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality. Arlene Stein is a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies and the director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on the sociology of gender and sexuality, culture, self and society. She is the author of four scholarly books; the recipient of the Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to the study of sexualities and the Ruth Benedict Book Award; and has served on the editorial boards of the journals Social Problems, SIGNS, and Sexualities . Klappentext Brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association. Zusammenfassung Brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface/Acknowledgments SECTION I. GENDER Introduction: Where Is Gender? Focus Point: Learning to Parent Transgender Children - Nicole Bedera Locating Gender 1 Boys vs. Girls - Debra Rigney 2 The Hearts of Boys - Niobe Way, C.J. Pascoe, Mark McCormack, Amy Schalet, and Freeden Oeur 3 Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem - Maxwell Leung 4 Transitioning Out Loud and Online - Arlene Stein In Brief: Fashioning Flawlessness - Kelly Kato 5 A 21st Century Gender Revolution - Sangyoub Park 6 The Feminization of American Immigration - Donna R. Gabaccia In Brief: Fashion Victims - Aghil Daghagheleh Scripting Gender: Media and Culture 7 Celebrity Drug Scandals, Media Double Standards - Rebecca Tiger In Brief: Orange Is Mostly the Same Gender - Adriana Brodyn 8 Selling Feminism, Consuming Femininity - Amanda M. Gengler 9 Beauty Beyond a Size 16 - Amanda M. Czerniawski 10 Enduring Dilemmas of Female Celebrity - Karen Sternheimer 11 #CallMeCaitlyn and Contemporary Trans* Visibility - D'Lane Compton and Tristan Bridges 12 Dancing the Body Beautiful - Julia A. Ericksen 13 Discrimination and Dress Codes in Urban Nightlife - Reuben A. Buford May Scripting Gender: Sport 14 Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field - Hilary Levey Friedman In Brief: Babes in Bikeland - Bjorn Christianson 15 Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage - Scott Melzer 16 The Sanctity of Sunday Football: Why Men Love Sports - Douglas Hartmann 17 Playing but Losing: Women's Sports After Title IX - Cheryl Cooky and Nicole M. LaVoi 18 Muslim Female Athletes and the Hijab - Geoff Harkness and Samira Islam Violence and Transgression 19 Ruling out Rape - Lisa Wade, Brian Sweeney, Amelia Seraphia Derr, Michael A. Messner, and Carol Burke 20 Walking Like a Man? - Kristen Barber and Kelsy Kretschmer 21 Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender - Jennifer Dawn Carlson 22 Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance - Victor M. Rios In Brief: When Victims Blame the Victim - Nicole Bedera 23 Changing Men in South Africa: Interview With Dean Peacock - Shari L. Dworkin In Brief: Suicide¿s Gender Divide - Lucia Lykke Gendered Institutions 24 The Not-so-Pink Ivory Tower - Ann Mullen 25 What Gender Is Science? - Maria Charles 26 Women of God - Orit Avishai 27 Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics - Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook 28 Suffering in an Age of Personal R...
