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This edited collection examines the significance of Sandra L. Bem's research for current debates on gender and gender roles in the social sciences, with contributions that question how the institution of gender has been, and remains, deeply contested.
List of contents
Introduction: Gendered Institutions and Cultural Practices: Still Chasing the Legacy of Sandra Bem Contextualizing Bem: The Developmental Social Psychology of Masculinity and Femininity Insights into the Vietnamese Culture of Gender: Factors Hindering Academic Women's Advancement To Leadership Positions How College Students Perceive Men's and Women's Advantages and Disadvantages Surrounding Work and Family Issues Gendered Career Choices and Stereotypes: A Theoretical Approach Drinking Like a Man: How Gender Norms Influence College Students' Perceptions of Binge Drinkers For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel Masculinity and ¿Generational Poverty' in a Faith-Based Homelessness Advocacy Program: Race and Class Viewed Through the ¿Lenses of Gender'
About the author
Marla H. Kohlman, PhD is a Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College. She earned her Doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland College Park and her law degree from the Washington College of Law at The American University. Her primary area of research has been intersectionality in the experience and reporting of sexual harassment and sexual assault. She has published articles in the second edition of the Handbook of Feminist Research (2012), Advances in Gender Research (2012, 2010) and most recently The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism (in press). Prior to teaching at Kenyon, Kohlman was an attorney practicing in Maryland and Washington, DC. Dana Balsink Krieg, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College. She earned her Doctoral degree in developmental psychology from Loyola University Chicago. Her research has primarily focused on the importance of transitions along the developmental path, including such milestone events as starting college or having a child. Her current focus is on transitions within the family, the development of family over the course of young adulthood and expectations that emerging adults have for future family formation, including work-family balance and gender roles within the family. She has published in Parenting: Science and Practice, the College Student Journal, Journal of Early Adolescence, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs. In addition, she co-edited a volume of Advances in Gender Research (Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives) with Marla Kohlman and Bette Dickerson.
Summary
This edited collection examines the significance of Sandra L. Bem’s research for current debates on gender and gender roles in the social sciences, with contributions that question how the institution of gender has been, and remains, deeply contested.
