Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader

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Edited by Jodi O'Brien, Arlene Stein
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Jodi O'Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the "Contemporary Sociological Perspectives" book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality. Arlene Stein is a Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies and the director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on the sociology of gender and sexuality, culture, self and society. She is the author of four scholarly books; the recipient of the Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to the study of sexualities and the Ruth Benedict Book Award; and has served on the editorial boards of the journals Social Problems, SIGNS, and Sexualities.

Preface/Acknowledgments SECTION I. GENDER Introduction: Where Is Gender? Focus Point: Learning to Parent Transgender Children - Nicole Bedera Locating Gender 1 Boys vs. Girls - Debra Rigney 2 The Hearts of Boys - Niobe Way, C.J. Pascoe, Mark McCormack, Amy Schalet, and Freeden Oeur 3 Jeremy Lin's Model Minority Problem - Maxwell Leung 4 Transitioning Out Loud and Online - Arlene Stein In Brief: Fashioning Flawlessness - Kelly Kato 5 A 21st Century Gender Revolution - Sangyoub Park 6 The Feminization of American Immigration - Donna R. Gabaccia In Brief: Fashion Victims - Aghil Daghagheleh Scripting Gender: Media and Culture 7 Celebrity Drug Scandals, Media Double Standards - Rebecca Tiger In Brief: Orange Is Mostly the Same Gender - Adriana Brodyn 8 Selling Feminism, Consuming Femininity - Amanda M. Gengler 9 Beauty Beyond a Size 16 - Amanda M. Czerniawski 10 Enduring Dilemmas of Female Celebrity - Karen Sternheimer 11 #CallMeCaitlyn and Contemporary Trans* Visibility - D'Lane Compton and Tristan Bridges 12 Dancing the Body Beautiful - Julia A. Ericksen 13 Discrimination and Dress Codes in Urban Nightlife - Reuben A. Buford May Scripting Gender: Sport 14 Tiger Girls on the Soccer Field - Hilary Levey Friedman In Brief: Babes in Bikeland - Bjorn Christianson 15 Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage - Scott Melzer 16 The Sanctity of Sunday Football: Why Men Love Sports - Douglas Hartmann 17 Playing but Losing: Women's Sports After Title IX - Cheryl Cooky and Nicole M. LaVoi 18 Muslim Female Athletes and the Hijab - Geoff Harkness and Samira Islam Violence and Transgression 19 Ruling out Rape - Lisa Wade, Brian Sweeney, Amelia Seraphia Derr, Michael A. Messner, and Carol Burke 20 Walking Like a Man? - Kristen Barber and Kelsy Kretschmer 21 Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender - Jennifer Dawn Carlson 22 Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance - Victor M. Rios In Brief: When Victims Blame the Victim - Nicole Bedera 23 Changing Men in South Africa: Interview With Dean Peacock - Shari L. Dworkin In Brief: Suicide's Gender Divide - Lucia Lykke Gendered Institutions 24 The Not-so-Pink Ivory Tower - Ann Mullen 25 What Gender Is Science? - Maria Charles 26 Women of God - Orit Avishai 27 Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics - Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook 28 Suffering in an Age of Personal Responsibility - Susan Sered In Brief: Egalitarian Preferences, Gendered Realities - Lucia Lykke 29 A Feminist's Work Is Never Done: Interview With Joan Acker - Jennifer L. Pierce 30 Got Power? - Christine Williams In Brief: Women: Agents of Change - Moriah Willow SECTION II. SEXUALITY Introduction: Navigating Sexuality Focus Point: Slut-Shaming Romance Writers - Nicole Bedera Navigating Sexuality 31 Mixed Messages About Teen Sex - Stefanie Mollborn 32 Sex, Love, and Autonomy in the Teenage Sleepover - Amy Schalet In Brief: Online Dating Choices, Constrained - Joanna Pepin 33 Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? - Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England 34 Straight Girls Kissing - Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor In Brief: Abstinence and Masculinity - Nicole Bedera 35 Hooking Up and Dating Are Two Sides of a Coin - Traci Luff, Kristi Hoffman, and Marit Berntson 36 Sexuality Has No Expiration Date - Linda J. Waite Sexual Knowledge 37 Can't Ask, Can't Tell: How Institutional Review Boards Keep Sex in the Closet - Janice M. Irvine In Brief: Limits to Same-Sex Acceptance - Lucia Lykke 38 Learning From Drag Queens - Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp 39 The Sex Lives of Sex Researchers - Janice M. Irvine 40 Being Straight in a Post-Closeted Culture - James Joseph Dean 41 U.S. Attitudes Toward Lesbian and Gay People Are Better Than Ever - Tina Fetner 42 Sexual Orientation Versus Behavior-Different for Men and Women? - Eliza Brown and Paula England Mapping Sexual Commerce and Politics 43 Sex Entrepreneurs in the New China - Travis S.K. Kong 44 Transnational Gender Vertigo - Kimberly Kay Hoang 45 Pride and Prejudice and Professionalism - Catherine Connell 46 Lesbian Geographies - Amin Ghaziani 47 There Goes the Gayborhood? - Amin Ghaziani In Brief: Did Baby Boomers Opt out or Lean in? - Virginia Little SECTION III. INTIMACY Introduction: Mapping Intimacy Focus Point: An Unexpected Box of Love Research - Michelle Janning Locating Intimacy 48 Loving Across Racial Divides - Amy Steinbugler 49 We Are Family - Katie L. Acosta 50 Unmarried With Children - Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas 51 Good Grief: Bouncing Back from a Spouse's Death in Later Life - Deborah Carr In Brief: Gender and Status Matching - Angela O'Brien 52 Measuring Same-Sex Relationships - Nancy Bates and Theresa J. Demaio In Brief: Online Friends Affect Relationship Status - Joanna Pepin Marriage 53 The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage - Kathleen E. Hull, Ann Meier, and Timothy Ortyl 54 Marriage Goes to School - Orit Avishai, Melanie Heath, and Jennifer Randles In Brief: Marriage Blurring Racial Boundaries - Lucia Lykke 55 Marrying Across Class Lines - Jessi Streib 56 For Better-and-for Worse - Verta Taylor, Leila J. Rupp, and Suzanna Danuta Walters 57 Korean Multiculturalism and the Marriage Squeeze - Sangyoub Park 58 A Silent Revolution in the Korean Family - Sangyoub Park Reproduction 59 India's Reproductive Assembly Line - Sharmila Rudrappa 60 "Children" Having Children - Stefanie Mollborn 61 The Single Mother by Choice Myth - Sarah R. Hayford and Karen Benjamin Guzzo 62 Reproducing the Nation - OEzlem Altiok In Brief: Birth Control, Religion, and the Social Construction of Whiteness - Nicole Bedera 63 What Happened to the "war on women"? - Deana A. Rohlinger In Brief: Race and Contraception - Melissa Brown 64 The Poetry of Politics: Interview With Katha Pollitt - Carole Joffe Family Portraits 65 The Joy of Cooking? - Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott, and Joslyn Brenton 66 Eating Military Base Stew - Grace M. Cho 67 The Superstrong Black Mother - Sinikka Elliott and Megan Reid In Brief: Neoliberal Mothering - Melissa Brown 68 Families Facing Untenable Choices - Lisa Dodson and Wendy Luttrell 69 Mothering While Disabled - Angela Frederick 70 Stay-at-Home Fatherhood - Nazneen Kane In Brief: Father Schools and Promise Keepers - Nicole Bedera 71 Picturing the Self: My Mother's Family Photo Albums - Robert Zussman About the Editors

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