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Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies

Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies

Author(s): Danielle DeMuth , Ayana Weekley , Julia Mason

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2015

Pages: 396

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Pages: 396

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Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies is a set of interdisciplinary essays that provides students the means to describe and analyze how gender stereotypes develop and their importance in shaping everyday decisions. These readings draw on a wide range of authors, including novelists, journalists, sociologists, psychologists, and historians.

The second edition of Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism:

  • encompasses the rapidly growing discipline of women, gender, and sexuality.
  • frames each essay with pre-reading questions, key terms, and listed related readings that guide student reading, and provides space and prompts for reflection.
  • encourages readers to apply text concepts to contemporary society.
  • includes four new readings with the NEW 2nd edition.

Acknowledgments
Foreword - Kathleen Underwood
Preface - Danielle M. DeMuth
New to This Edition - Ayana K. Weekley
Alphabetical List of Authors and Essays
Thematic List of Authors and Essays
About the Editors

Asking for Consent is Sexy - Andrew Abrams
Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States - Vivyan C. Adair
Sex(less) Education - Stephanie Block
Toward a New Vision - Patricia Hill Collins
Bisexuality and the Case Against Dualism - Stephanie Fairyington
We Are All Works in Progress - Leslie Feinberg
Oppression - Marilyn Frye
My Life as a Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
X: A Fabulous Child’s Story - Lois Gould
It’s Only a Penis - Christine Helliwell
Race and Gender - bell hooks
Privilege, Power, Difference, and Us - Allan G. Johnson
More than a Few Good Men - Jackson Katz
Uses of the Erotic - Audre Lorde
White Privilege - Peggy McIntosh
Dude You’re A Fag - C.J. Pascoe
Swept Awake! Negotiating Passion on Campus - Bonnie Pfister
Homophobia - Suzanne Pharr
Claiming an Education - Adrienne Rich
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence - Adrienne Rich
The Chilly Climate - Bernice R. Sandler
Boygasms and Girlgasms - Julia Serano
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Appendix of Exercises
Index

Danielle DeMuth
Danielle M. DeMuth is Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. In addition to Introduction to Gender Studies she teaches courses on global feminism, Arab and Arab-American Feminism, feminist theory, and lesbian, gay and queer literature. Her research interests include lesbian and queer literature and feminism in the Arab world. DeMuth started teaching Introduction to Gender Studies in 1997 while working on her PhD in English at the University of Toledo. She is grateful to more than fifteen years of students in Women and Gender Studies who have claimed their education and continue to inspire her as they apply their knowledge and activism in the world.
Ayana Weekley
Ayana K. Weekley is Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University. In addition to Introduction to Gender Studies, she teaches courses on feminist theory, including black feminist theory. Her research interests include representations of race, gender and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, AIDS activism, black feminisms, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Weekley earned her PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is committed to supporting students in their educational journeys find the same passion she found through critical inquiry in Women and Gender Studies.
Julia Mason
Julia M. Mason is Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She regularly teaches Introduction to Gender Studies as well as courses on gender and popular culture and women, health and environment. She earned her doctorate in American Culture Studies, with graduate certificates in Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies, from Bowling Green State University. Mason’s research centers on representations of women in popular culture in mainstream magazines and contemporary television. She is committed to fostering a deeper understanding of relevant connections as a means to create and sustain positive social change in the classroom, at our university, and in the community.

Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies is a set of interdisciplinary essays that provides students the means to describe and analyze how gender stereotypes develop and their importance in shaping everyday decisions. These readings draw on a wide range of authors, including novelists, journalists, sociologists, psychologists, and historians.

The second edition of Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism:

  • encompasses the rapidly growing discipline of women, gender, and sexuality.
  • frames each essay with pre-reading questions, key terms, and listed related readings that guide student reading, and provides space and prompts for reflection.
  • encourages readers to apply text concepts to contemporary society.
  • includes four new readings with the NEW 2nd edition.

Acknowledgments
Foreword - Kathleen Underwood
Preface - Danielle M. DeMuth
New to This Edition - Ayana K. Weekley
Alphabetical List of Authors and Essays
Thematic List of Authors and Essays
About the Editors

Asking for Consent is Sexy - Andrew Abrams
Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States - Vivyan C. Adair
Sex(less) Education - Stephanie Block
Toward a New Vision - Patricia Hill Collins
Bisexuality and the Case Against Dualism - Stephanie Fairyington
We Are All Works in Progress - Leslie Feinberg
Oppression - Marilyn Frye
My Life as a Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
X: A Fabulous Child’s Story - Lois Gould
It’s Only a Penis - Christine Helliwell
Race and Gender - bell hooks
Privilege, Power, Difference, and Us - Allan G. Johnson
More than a Few Good Men - Jackson Katz
Uses of the Erotic - Audre Lorde
White Privilege - Peggy McIntosh
Dude You’re A Fag - C.J. Pascoe
Swept Awake! Negotiating Passion on Campus - Bonnie Pfister
Homophobia - Suzanne Pharr
Claiming an Education - Adrienne Rich
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence - Adrienne Rich
The Chilly Climate - Bernice R. Sandler
Boygasms and Girlgasms - Julia Serano
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Appendix of Exercises
Index

Danielle DeMuth
Danielle DeMuth
Danielle M. DeMuth is Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. In addition to Introduction to Gender Studies she teaches courses on global feminism, Arab and Arab-American Feminism, feminist theory, and lesbian, gay and queer literature. Her research interests include lesbian and queer literature and feminism in the Arab world. DeMuth started teaching Introduction to Gender Studies in 1997 while working on her PhD in English at the University of Toledo. She is grateful to more than fifteen years of students in Women and Gender Studies who have claimed their education and continue to inspire her as they apply their knowledge and activism in the world.
Ayana Weekley
Ayana Weekley
Ayana K. Weekley is Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University. In addition to Introduction to Gender Studies, she teaches courses on feminist theory, including black feminist theory. Her research interests include representations of race, gender and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, AIDS activism, black feminisms, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Weekley earned her PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is committed to supporting students in their educational journeys find the same passion she found through critical inquiry in Women and Gender Studies.
Julia Mason
Julia Mason
Julia M. Mason is Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She regularly teaches Introduction to Gender Studies as well as courses on gender and popular culture and women, health and environment. She earned her doctorate in American Culture Studies, with graduate certificates in Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies, from Bowling Green State University. Mason’s research centers on representations of women in popular culture in mainstream magazines and contemporary television. She is committed to fostering a deeper understanding of relevant connections as a means to create and sustain positive social change in the classroom, at our university, and in the community.