Gender and sexuality / Momin Rahman, Stevi Jackson.

By:

Rahman, Momin

Contributor(s):

Jackson, Stevi

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2010.Description: ix, 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0745633773
9780745633770

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.3 RAH

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3 Day Loan	Moylish Library Short Loan	305.3 RAH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100396176

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to wider social concerns throughout the world and presenting a comprehensive yet readable summary of recent research and theory.

In an accessible and engaging style, the book demonstrates how thinking about gender and sexuality can illuminate and enliven other contemporary sociological debates about social structure, social change, and culture and identity politics. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of gendered and sexual lives in different parts of the world. The book offers detailed coverage of wide-ranging topics, from international sex-tourism to celebrity culture, from gender in the work-place to new sexual lifestyles, drawing examples from everyday life.

By demonstrating the links between gender and sexuality this book makes a clear case for thinking sociologically about these important and controversial aspects of human identity and behaviour. The book will be of great value to students in any discipline looking to understand the roles gender and sexuality play in our lives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction (p. 1)
What Do You Think About Same-Sex Marriage? (p. 1)
Gender, Sexuality and Sociology (p. 3)
Essentialism in Classical Sociological Thinking (p. 5)
The Structure of the Text (p. 7)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 9)
Part I The Development of Sociological Thought on Gender and Sexuality (p. 11)
Introduction: The Unfortunate President (p. 12)
1 The Trouble with 'Nature' (p. 15)
1.1 'One is Not Born But Becomes a Woman': Identifying 'Essentialism' (p. 15)
1.2 Identifying Gender: First Wave Feminism (p. 18)
1.3 Consequences of Sex-Gender Beliefs: The 'Deviant' Homosexual (p. 22)
1.4 Defining Gender: The Second Wave (p. 23)
2 Sociological Challenges to Essentialism (p. 27)
2.1 The Feminine Mystique and Liberal Feminism (p. 27)
2.2 Radical Feminism and the Concept of 'Patriarchy' (p. 29)
2.3 Radical Feminist Approaches to Sexuality (p. 30)
2.4 Sexuality and Social Structure: 'Compulsory Heterosexuality' and the Politics of Lesbianism (p. 32)
2.5 Gay Liberation and the Beginnings of Sociology of Homosexuality: Challenging 'Deviance' (p. 34)
2.6 Marxist Feminism, Capitalism and Patriarchy (p. 37)
2.7 Gay Identity and Capitalism (p. 39)
2.8 Women's 'Difference' (p. 40)
2.9 Sexuality, Knowledge and Power: The Impact of Foucault (p. 42)
2.10 Significant Absences in Second Wave Feminism and Gay Liberation (p. 44)
Learning Outcomes (p. 46)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 46)
Part II Inequalities and Social Structure (p. 49)
Introduction: Local and Global Structuring of Gender and Sexual Inequalities (p. 50)
3 Gender, Sexuality and Structural Inequality (p. 52)
3.1 Approaches to Social Structure (p. 52)
3.2 The Gendered and Sexual Landscape of Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Western Societies (p. 53)
3.3 Structural Sociology and the Neglect of Women (p. 55)
3.4 Early Critical Approaches (p. 58)
3.5 From 'Sex Roles' to 'Sexual Divisions' (p. 59)
4 The Idea of Patriarchy (p. 62)
4.1 Women's Subordination and Sexual Exclusion in the Early 1970s (p. 62)
4.2 The Influence of Marxism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Sexual Politics (p. 63)
4.3 Relations of Production: Theorizing Women's Paid and Unpaid Work (p. 67)
4.4 Relations of Reproduction: Marxism, Feminism and Motherhood (p. 71)
4.5 Sexuality, Sexual Exploitation and Institutionalized Heterosexuality (p. 73)
4.6 Ideology, Discourse and Culture (p. 76)
4.7 Challenging White Feminism (p. 78)
5 Rethinking Gendered and Sexual Inequalities (p. 81)
5.1 The Persistence of Material Inequalities into the Twenty-First Century (p. 81)
5.2 New Materialisms (p. 83)
5.3 The Structural Dimensions of Gender and Sexuality (p. 86)
5.4 The Idea of Intersectionality (p. 89)
5.5 Global Modernity, Global Inequality and the Ordering of Gender and Sexuality (p. 92)
Learning Outcomes (p. 98)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 98)
Part III Culture, Ideology and Discourse (p. 101)
Introduction: The End of a 'Queer' Era? (p. 102)
6 Gender and Sexuality as Cultural Constructs (p. 106)
6.1 Identifying Patriarchal Culture (p. 106)
6.2 Religion, Culture and the Sexual (p. 107)
6.3 The Advent of Scientific Essentialism (p. 110)
6.4 Essentialism and Bourgeois Victorian Culture (p. 113)
6.5 From Sexology to Psychology: Freud and Psychoanalysis in the Twentieth Century (p. 114)
6.6 The Persistence of Scientific Essentialism into the Twenty-First Century (p. 116)
7 Critical Perspectives on Knowledge (p. 119)
7.1 'Biology as Ideology': The Problem with 'Natural' Science (p. 119)
7.2 Science as One of Many 'Knowledges': From Ideology to Discourse (p. 122)
7.3 The Challenge of the 'Cultural Turn' in Social Theory (p. 124)
7.4 Queer Theory: Deconstructing Identity (p. 127)
7.5 Embodied Sociology (p. 129)
7.6 Differences of Race: Intersectionality Theory and the Critique of White Feminist Knowledge (p. 131)
8 The Complexity of Contemporary Culture (p. 135)
8.1 Everyday Culture: Language and Meaning (p. 135)
8.2 Sexual Objectification in Popular Culture (p. 136)
8.3 Racialized Gender and Sexualized Race (p. 139)
8.4 Lesbian and Gay Stereotypes (p. 143)
8.5 Masculinities in Crisis? (p. 144)
8.6 Postmodern or Late Modern Culture? (p. 147)
Learning Outcomes (p. 151)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 151)
Part IV Self, Identity and Agency (p. 153)
Introduction: Living with Multiple Identities (p. 154)
9 The Socialization Paradigm and Its Critics (p. 158)
9.1 Socialized Selves (p. 158)
9.2 Ethnomethodology: 'Doing' Gender and Sexuality (p. 160)
9.3 Doing, Being and the Reflexive Self (p. 165)
9.4 Sexual Selves and Sexual Scripts (p. 168)
10 Becoming Gendered and Sexual (p. 172)
10.1 From Gender Attribution to Gender Identity (p. 172)
10.2 From Gendered Selves to Sexual Selves (p. 176)
10.3 Negotiating Gendered and Sexual Identities (p. 181)
11 Sexual Selves in Global Late Modernity (p. 187)
11.1 Normative Heterosexuality and Alternative Sexualities (p. 187)
11.2 Modern Western Transformations of Self and Identity (p. 192)
11.3 Globalized Identities, Global Social Change (p. 195)
Learning Outcomes (p. 199)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 199)
Part V Conclusion (p. 201)
Introduction (p. 202)
12 Power, Politics, Identities and Social Change (p. 204)
12.1 '18 Million Cracks': The Triumph of Liberal Feminism? (p. 204)
12.2 Sometimes, It's (Still) Hard to be a Woman (and Really Hard to be Non-Heterosexual and/or Non-White): Structural Inequalities, Intersecting Oppressions and Hetero-Orthodoxy (p. 207)
12.3 The Persistence of (Reflexive) Essentialism (p. 209)
Notes and Resources for Further Study (p. 211)
Bibliography (p. 212)
Index (p. 233)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Momin Rahman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Trent University, Canada Stevi Jackson is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK