Composing Gender

Groner and O’Hara, Eds.

Table of Contents

Lila Abu-Lughod, “Is there a Muslim Sexuality?: Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings”

Beth Berila and Devika Dibya Choudhuri, “Metrosexuality the Middle-Class Way: Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”

Amy L. Best, “Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture”

Sharon R. Bird, “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity”

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

R.W. Connell, “Arms and the Man: The Question of Peace”

Stephanie Coontz, “Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet: American Families in the 1950s”

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, “Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way”

Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace”

Aaron Devor, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender”

Cynthia Enloe, from Globalization and Militarism

Anna Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited”

Marjorie Garber, “The Return to Biology”

David Greven, “Dude, Where’s My Gender?: Contemporary Teen Comedies and New Forms of American Masculinity”

Ellen Gruenbaum, “Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy”

Ruth Hubbard, “Rethinking Women’s Biology”

Allan Johnson, “What is This Thing Called Patriarchy?”

Michael S. Kimmel, from Manhood in America

Eileen B. Leonard, “Household Labor and Technology in a Consumer Culture”

Marcia Lieberman, “‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale”

Judith Lorber, “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender”

Karen Martin, “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Pre-Schools”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Fatema Mernissi, “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem”

Michael A. Messner, “Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender”

Michael A. Messner and Jeffrey Montez de Oca, “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events”

Linda Mizejewski, “Queen Latifah, Unruly Women and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy”

Kathryn Pauly Morgan, “Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies”

Claire Renzetti and Daniel Curran, from Women, Men and Society

Caryl Rivers, “Superwomen and Twitching Wrecks”

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”

Composing Gender

Groner and O’Hara, Eds.

Alternate Table of Contents

Forming Gender:

Amy L. Best, “Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture”

Aaron Devor, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender”

Ellen Gruenbaum, “Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy”

Marcia Lieberman, “‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale”

Judith Lorber, “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender”

Karen Martin, “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Pre-Schools”

Michael Messner, “Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender”

Claire Renzetti and Daniel Curran, from Women, Men and Society

Biology/Body:           

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

Anna Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited”

Marjorie Garber, “The Return to Biology”

Ruth Hubbard, “Rethinking Women’s Biology”

Karen Martin, “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Pre-Schools”

Linda Mizejewski, “Queen Latifah, Unruly Women and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy”

Body Practices:

Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace”

Ellen Gruenbaum, “Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Fatema Mernissi, “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem”

Kathryn Pauly Morgan, “Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies”

Economics/Work/Class:

Beth Berila and Devika Dibya Choudhuri, “Metrosexuality the Middle-Class Way: Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace”

Allan Johnson, “What is This Thing Called Patriarchy?”

Eileen B. Leonard, “Household Labor and Technology in a Consumer Culture”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Michael A. Messner and Jeffrey Montez de Oca, “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events”

Caryl Rivers, “Superwomen and Twitching Wrecks”

Politics:

Sharon R. Bird, “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity”

R.W. Connell, “Arms and the Man: The Question of Peace”

Cynthia Enloe, from Globalization and Militarism

Allan Johnson, “What is This Thing Called Patriarchy?”

Michael S. Kimmel, from Manhood in America

Eileen B. Leonard, “Household Labor and Technology in a Consumer Culture”

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”

Family:

Stephanie Coontz, “Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet: American Families in the 1950s”

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, “Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way”

Eileen B. Leonard, “Household Labor and Technology in a Consumer Culture”

Caryl Rivers, “Superwomen and Twitching Wrecks”

Media/Representation:

 

Beth Berila and Devika Dibya Choudhuri, “Metrosexuality the Middle-Class Way: Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

Stephanie Coontz, “Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet: American Families in the 1950s”

David Greven, “Dude, Where’s My Gender?: Contemporary Teen Comedies and New Forms of American Masculinity”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Michael A. Messner and Jeffrey Montez de Oca, “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events”

Linda Mizejewski, “Queen Latifah, Unruly Women and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy”

Caryl Rivers, “Superwomen and Twitching Wrecks”

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”

Technology:

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”

Eileen B. Leonard, “Household Labor and Technology in a Consumer Culture”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Kathryn Pauly Morgan, “Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies”

Global and Transnational Contexts:

Lila Abu-Lughod, “Is there a Muslim Sexuality?: Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings”

R.W. Connell, “Arms and the Man: The Question of Peace”

Cynthia Enloe, from Globalization and Militarism

Ellen Gruenbaum, “Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy”

Allan Johnson, “What is This Thing Called Patriarchy?”

Fatema Mernissi, “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem”

Felicity Schaeffer-Gabriel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”

Sexuality:

Lila Abu-Lughod, “Is there a Muslim Sexuality?: Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings”

Beth Berila and Devika Dibya Choudhuri, “Metrosexuality the Middle-Class Way: Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”

David Greven, “Dude, Where’s My Gender?: Contemporary Teen Comedies and New Forms of American Masculinity”

Gender Rituals:

Lila Abu-Lughod, “Is there a Muslim Sexuality?: Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings”

Sharon R. Bird, “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity”

Amy L. Best, “Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture”

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, “Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way”

Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace”

Ellen Gruenbaum, “Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy”

Michael Messner, “Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender”

Beauty:

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace”

Marcia Lieberman, “‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale”

Sarah McCormick, “Hoovers and Shakers: The New Housework Workout”

Fatema Mernissi, “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem”

Linda Mizejewski, “Queen Latifah, Unruly Women and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy”

Masculinity:

Sharon R. Bird, “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity”

Beth Berila and Devika Dibya Choudhuri, “Metrosexuality the Middle-Class Way: Exploring Race, Class and Gender in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”

R.W. Connell, “Arms and the Man: The Question of Peace”

David Greven, “Dude, Where’s My Gender?: Contemporary Teen Comedies and New Forms of American Masculinity”

Allan Johnson, “What is This Thing Called Patriarchy?”

Michael S. Kimmel, from Manhood in America

Michael A. Messner and Jeffrey Montez de Oca, “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events”

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, “Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity”