"Faced with an increasingly diverse student population, an expanding field of gender scholarship, and an academic emphasis on multidisciplinarity, social science professors often struggle to address and integrate such a broad array of gender issues in their courses. This book addresses that challenge by increasing students' understandings of gender relations in multiple social fields across time and space.
Gender Relations in Global Perspective is truly multidisciplinary. It is partially drawn from the work of sociologists, but articles written by gender scholars from the disciplines of cultural studies, history, political science, geography, and literary theory are also included. The readings examine historically persistent, cross-culturally relevant, and empirically grounded concerns such as men's position in the family and women's relationship to work, media, and the global economy, as well as the gendered problems of violence, sexuality and reproduction, and racism.
This book presents an engaging range of comparative and cross-cultural gender analyses from various world regions, including the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. As the articles are dialogically situated in this text, readers will be able to analyse gender similarities and differences around the globe and learn about the diversity of gender experiences across cultures and regions. This range of analyses demonstrates how a global perspective enriches feminist analyses."--Pub. desc.
The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: The strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy / Louise Lamphere -- "Introduction" to More Than a Labour of Love: Three Generations of Women's Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Dueling dualisms / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- The give away / Leslie Feinberg -- Feminist theories / Roberta Hamilton -- Going gender / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman -- Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity / Michael S. Kimmel -- Introduction: Acting in concert / Judith Butler -- "It's almost like I have a job, but I don't get paid": Fathers at home reconfiguring work, care, masculinity / Andrea Doucet -- Beyond diversity: Exploring the ways in which the discourse of race has shaped the institution of the nuclear family / Enakshi Dua -- A history of women' bodies / Rose Weitz --^
Measuring up to Barbie: Ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Size 6: The western women's harem / Fatima Mernissi -- Globalization and the inequality of women with disabilities / Fiona Sampson -- Pills and power tools / Susan Bordo -- The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence / Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, and Martin Daly -- Violence against refugee women: Gender oppression, Canadian policy, and the international struggle for human rights / Helene Moussa -- The right stuff: Fashioning an identity through clothing in a junior school / Jon Swain -- "Spice Girls," "Nice girls," "Girlies," and "Tomboys": Gender discourses, girls' cultures, and femininities in the primary classroom / Diane Reay -- The care crisis in the Philippines: Children and transnational families in the new global economy / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas --^
'Cuz the black chick always gets it first: Dynamiccs of race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Candra K. Gill -- Publicity traps: Television talk shows and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender visibility / Joshua Gamson -- The discursive constitution of Pakistani women: The articulation of gender, nation, and Islam / Nancy Cook -- Geography lessons: On being an insider/outsider to the Canadian nation / Himani Bannerji -- Racism, women's health, and reproductive freedom / Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner -- Writing sex, writing difference: Creating the master text on the Hottentot Venus / Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- The female gaze: Encounters in the Zenana / Indira Ghose -- Marginalisation, Islamism, and the production of the "Other's" "Other" / Robina Mohammad -- Is local:global as feminine:masculine? Rethinking the gender of globalization / Carla Freeman -- Globalization, gender, and the Davos Man / Lourdes Beneria --^
Globalization and its mal(e)contents: The gendered moral and political economy of terrorism / Michael S. Kimmel.