CORE TOPICS:
All students are expected to be familiar with the core readings: Foundations, Theory, and Methods.
FOUNDATIONS:
Acker, Joan, 1992. “From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions.” Contemporary Sociology 21, 5: 565-569.
Bartky, Sandra Lee. 1990. Feminity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. New York, Routledge.
* Bem, Sandra Lipsitz. 1993. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press.
England, Paula. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, deGruyter Inc.
England, Paula. 2011. “The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled.” Gender & Society 24:149-166.
Read also: The symposium on this article in volume 25.
Ferree, Myra Marx. 2010. "Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 72:420-439.
* Ferree, Myra Marx, Judith Lorber and Beth B. Hess (eds.), Revisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications. Especially the introduction.
Barbara Finlay. Before the Second Wave: Gender in the Sociological Tradition. Selected readings.
Foucault, Michael. 1978. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge. Random House.
* Lorber, Judith. 1994. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Scott, Joan. 1999. Gender and the Politics of History, Revised Edition. New York: Columbia University Press. The original edition is okay too.
Stacey, Judith and Barrie Thorne. 1985. “The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology.” Social Problems 32 (4):301-317.
Read also: Symposium. 2006. “‘The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology’ Twenty Years Later: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” Social Problems 53 (4): 443-82.
Nicholson, Linda, ed. 1997. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. New York: Routledge.
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Chapters III and IV are optional.
THEORY:
Structural Perspectives:
Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Engels, Frederick. 1975 [1942]. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. NY: International Publishers.
Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social Institution.” Social Forces 82:1249-73.
Risman, Barbara J. 2004. “Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism.” Gender & Society 18(4): 429-450.
Cross-listed:
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge. Primary listing in “Intersectionalities”.
* Ingraham, Chrys. 1994. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 203-19. Primary listing in “Sexualities”.
In Linda Nicholson, ed. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. New York: Routledge. This entire book is listed in “Foundations”:
Hartmann, Heidi, 1981. “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union.” Pp. 97-122
Rubin, Gayle, 1975. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex.” Pp. 27-62
Social Constructionist Perspectives:
Deutsch, Francine, 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender & Society 21: 106-127. Read West and Zimmerman (below) before reading Deutsch.
* Fenstermaker, Sarah and Candace West. 2002. Doing gender, doing difference: Inequality, power, and institutional change. New York: Routledge.
* Gagne, P., R. Tewksbury, and D. McGaughey. 1997. “Coming Out and Crossing Over: Identity Formation and Proclamation in a Transgender Community.” Gender & Society 11:478-508.
* Lorber, Judith. 1993. “Believing is Seeing,: Biology as Ideology.” Gender & Society 7, 4: 568-581. Ridgeway, Cecelia. 2011. Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ridgeway, Cecilia and Shelly J. Correll. 2004. "Unpacking the Gender System: A Theoretical Perspective on Gender Beliefs and Social Relations." Gender & Society, 18 (4): 510-531.
Schrock, Douglas, and Michael Schwalbe. 2009. “Men, Masculinity and Manhood Acts.” Annual Review of Sociology 35: 277-295.
* Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers Press.
West, Candace and Don Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender and Society 1:125-151
Read also: Symposium. 2009. “ ‘Doing Gender’ as Canon or Agenda: A Symposium on West and Zimmerman.” Gender & Society 23 (1): 72-122.
West, Candace and Fenstermaker, Sarah. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender & Society 9:8-37.
Read also: Symposium. 1995. “On West and Fenstermaker's ‘Doing Difference’”. Gender & Society 9:491-506.
Cross-Listed:
Coltrane, Scott. 1989. "Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender." Social Problems 36:473-490. Primary listing in “Work and Labor.”
Dozier, Raine. 2005. “Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World.” Gender & Society 19 (3):297-316. Primary listing in “Sexualities.”
* Messner, Michael. 1990. “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18 (4): 416-444. Primary listing in “Masculinities.”
* Pyke, Karen and Denise Johnson. 2003. “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: ‘Doing’ Gender Across Cultural Worlds.” Gender & Society 17:33-53. Primary listing in “intersectionalities.”
Schilt, Kristen and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. "Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals," Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality." Gender & Society 23:440-464. Primary listing in “Sexualities.”
Postmodern critiques:
* Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge. This is optional but if you skip it, be sure to read Butler’s essay in Nicholson, below.
* Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge. Nicholson, Linda J., ed. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism. New York : Routledge. The entire book, but especially, Susan Bordo’s "Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Scepticism," Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse,” and Sandra Harding “Feminism, science and anti-Enlightenment critique.”
Biosocial perspectives:
D’Onofrio, Brian M, and Benjamin B. Lahey. 2010. “Biosocial Influences on the Family: A Decade Review” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 762-782.
Udry, Richard J. 2000. “Biological Limits of Gender Construction.” American Sociological Review 65(3): 443-457.
Also read: Comments and Reply to Udry. 2000. American Sociological Review 66(4): 592-621. E. M. Miller and C. Y. Costello; I. Kennelly, S. N. Merz, and J. Lorber; B. J. Risman; J. R. Udry; G. Firebaugh.
METHODS:
Acker, Joan. 1973. “Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism.” American Journal of Sociology 78:936-945.
Grant, Linda, Kathryn B. Ward and Zue Lan Rong. 1987. “Is There an Association Between Gender and Methods in Sociological Research?” American Sociological Review. 52:856-862.
Haraway, Donna. 1988. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of the Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14:575-600.
* Harding, Sandra. 1998. Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Harding, Sandra. 1988. Feminism and Methodology. Bloomington, IN: University of Indian Press. Especially chapters I (Harding), VII (Dorothy Smith), XI (Hartstock), and XII (Harding).
* Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
* Lorde, Audre. 1979. “The Master’s Tools Will never Dismantle the Master’s House.” in Sister Outsider. Trumansburg NY: The Crossing Press.
Naples, Nancy. 2004. Feminism and Method. New York: Routledge. Especially parts 1 and 2.
Thompson, Linda. 1992. “Feminist Methodology for Family Studies.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 54 (3):3-18. Cross-Listed:
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Primary listing in “Foundations.”
MAJOR THEMES & SPECIALIZATIONS:
You will pick two of the options below. You are encouraged to add relevant readings to your chosen lists. If your topic is not covered adequately below you may suggest an alternative list.
Employment and Labor:
Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4: 139-158.
* Babcock, Linda and Sarah Laschever. 2003. Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* Bernhardt, Annette, Martina Morris, and Mark S. Handcock. 1995. “Women’s Gains of Men’s Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings.” American Journal of Sociology 101:2 (September), 302-328.
* Bielby, W. T., and D. D. Bielby. 1992. “I Will Follow Him: Family Ties, Gender-Role Beliefs, and Reluctance to Relocate for a Better Job.” American Journal of Sociology 97: 1241-1267.
* Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives. Harvard University Press.
Browne, Irene and Joye Misra, 2003. "The intersection of gender and race in the labor market.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:487-513.
Budig, Michelle J. 2002. "Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator?" Social Problems 49:258-277.
Budig, Michelle J. and Paula England. 2001. "The Wage Penalty for Motherhood." American Sociological Review 66:204-255.
Chan, Tak Wing. 1999. “Revolving Doors Reexamined: Occupational Sex Segregation over the Life Course.” American Sociological Review 64: 86-96.
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. "Individuals, Jobs, and Labor Markets: The Devaluation of Women's Work." American Sociological Review 68:443-463. Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112, 5 (March): 1297-1338.
England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
England, Paula. 2005. “Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: the Role of Motherhood and Segregation.” Social Politics 12, 2: 264-88.
England, Paula. 2005. “Emerging Theories of Care Work.” Annual Review of Sociology 31: 381- 399.
* Glass, J., and V. Camarigg. “Gender, Parenthood, and Job-Family Compatibility.” American Journal of Sociology 98: 131-151.
* Hochschild, Arlie. 2003. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: U of California.
* Jacobs, Jerry A. 1989. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Chapters 3, 8, and 9.
* Kalev, Alexandra. 2009. “Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 1591-1643.
* Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. Basic Books.
Reskin, Barbara. 1993. “Sex Segregation in the Workplace.” Annual Review of Sociology 19: 241-270.
* Reskin, Barbara F. and Patricia A. Roos. 1990. Job queues, gender queues: Explaining women's inroads into male occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
* Roth, Louise Marie. 2006. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
* Wharton, Amy. 2009. “The Sociology of Emotional Labor.” Annual Review of Sociology 35.
Williams, Christine L. 1992. “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ‘Female’ Professions.” Social Problems 39(3): 253-267.
* Williams, Christine L. 1995. Still a man's world: Men who do 'women's work'. Berkeley: University of California Press.
* Williams, Joan. 2001. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to do about It. Oxford University Press.
Zvonkovic, Anisa M., Kathleen M. Greaves, Cynthia J. Schmiege, and Leslie D. Hall. 1996. “The Marital Construction of Gender through Work and Family Decisions: A Qualitative Analysis.” Journal of Marriage and Family 58, 1 (Feb): 91-100.
Cross-Listed: Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov. 2006. "A Welfare State Paradox: State Interventions and Women's Employment Opportunities in 22 Countries." American Journal of Sociology 111(6):1910-1949. Primary listing in “Gender and the State.”
Many of the articles in “time and the division of household labor” are relevant to “employment and labor.”
Time and the Division of Household Labor:
Bianchi, Suzanne M., John Robinson, Liana Sayer, and Melissa Milkie. 2000. “Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor.” Social Forces 79: 191-228.
Bittman, M., Paula England, and Nancy Folbre. 2003. “When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work.” American Journal of Sociology 109:186-214.
Brines, Julie. 1994. “Economic Dependency, Gender, and the Division of labor at Home.” American Journal of Sociology 100:652-689. Compare with Gupta, below, and with Bittman et al., above.
Cha, Youngjoo. 2010. "Reinforcing Separate Spheres." American Sociological Review 75:303- 329.
Coltrane, Scott. 1989. "Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender." Social Problems 36:473-490.
* Crompton, Rosemary, Micaela Brockmann, and Clare Lyonette. 2005 “Attitudes, Women’s Employment and the Domestic Division of Labour: A Cross-National Analysis in Two Waves.” Work, Employment, and Society 19: 213-233.
Fuwa, Makiko. 2004. “Macro-Level Gender Inequality and the Division of Household Labor in 22 Countries.” American Sociological Review 69(6):751-67.
Gupta, Sanjiv. 2007. “Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship Between Married Women’s Earnings and Housework.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 69:399-417.
Hochschild, Arlie, 1989. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Viking.
Hochschild, Arlie. 2001. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. Holt Paperbacks.
Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson. 2004. The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Jacobs, Jerry and Kathleen Gerson. 2001. "Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families? Explaining Trends in Work, Leisure and Family Time." Work and Occupations 28(1):40-63. * Offer, Shira, and Barbara Schneider. 2011. “Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families.” American Sociological Review 76: 809-833.
Percheski, Christine. 2008. “Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women's Employment Rates from 1960 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 73(3):497-517.
Sayer, Liana. 2005. "Gender, Time and Inequality: Trends in Women’s and Men’s Paid Work, Unpaid Work and Free Time." Social Forces 84:285-304.
South, Scott and Glenna Spitze. 1994. “Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households.” American Sociological Review. 59 (3):327-347.
Stone, Pamela. 2007. Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. UC Press.
Thébaud, Sarah. 2010. "Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning." Gender & Society 24:330-354.
Cross-Listed:
Coltrane, Scott. 1996. Family Man. Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity. Oxford Univ Press. Primary listing in “parenting.”
Many of the articles in “Employment and Labor” are relevant.
Parenting:
Bianchi, Suzanne M. 2000. “Maternal Employment and Time With Children: Dramatic Change or Surprising Continuity?” Demography 37: 139-154.
Coltrane, Scott. 1996. Family Man. Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity. Oxford University Press.
Edin, Katherine and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep. UC Press.
Fomby, Paula, and Andrew J. Cherlin. 2007. “Family Instability and Child Well-Being.” American Sociological Review 72: 181-204.
* Fox, Bonnie, 2001. “The Formative Years: How Parenthood Creates Gender.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 38, 4: 373-90.
Gerson, Kathleen. 1985. Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Especially chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Gillespie, R. 2003. “Childfree and Feminine: Understanding the Gender Identity of Voluntarily Childless Women.” Gender & Society 17: 122-136. Glenn, Evelyn N., Grace Chang and Linda R. Forcey (eds.) Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency. New York: Routledge. Especially chapters 1 and 3.
* Hays, Sharon. 1996. The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Heaton, T.B., C.K. Jacobson, and K. Holland. 1999. “Persistence and Change in Decisions to Remain Childless.” Journal of Marriage and Family 61: 531-539.
Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, and Gretchen Pendell. 2007. “The Gender Gap in Attitudes about Childlessness in the United States.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 899-915.
* Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lareau, Annette. 2002. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families." American Sociological Review 67:747-76.
* Laslett, Barbara and Joanna Brenner. 1989. “Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives.” Annual Review of Sociology 15: 381-404.
* Moore, Mignon R. 2008. “Gendered Power Relations among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies.” American Sociological Review 73(2):335-356.
* Park, K. 2002. “Stigma Management among the Voluntarily Childless” Sociological Perspectives 45: 21- 45.
Pollard, M. S., and S. P. Morgan. 2002. “Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of children and the Third Birth.” American Sociological Review 67: 600-613.
Raley, Sara and Suzanne Bianchi. 2006. “Sons, Daughters, and Family Processes: Does Gender of Children Matter?.” Annual Review of Sociology 32.
Rippyoung, Phyllis L. F., and Mary C. Nooman. 2012. “Is Breastfeeding Truly Cost Free? Income Consequences of Breastfeeding for Women.” American Sociological Review 77: 244-267.
Risman, Barbara. 1987. “Intimate Relations from a Microstructural Perspective: Men Who Mother.” Gender & Society. 1:6-32.
Seccombe, K. 1991. “Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Children: Gender Comparisons Among Childfree Husbands and Wives.” Journal of Marriage and Family 53: 191-202.
Schoen, Robert, Nan Marie Astone, Young J. Kim, Constance A. Nathanson, and Jason M. Fields. 1999. “Do Fertility Intentions Affect Fertility Behavior?” Journal of Marriage and Family 61: 790-799.
Shows, Carla and Naomi Gerstel. 2009. “Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians.” Gender & Society 23(2):161-187. * Singley, Susan G; Hynes, Kathryn. 2005. “Transitions to Parenthood: Work-Family Policies, Gender, and the Couple Context.” Gender & Society, 19:(3)376-397.
* Somers, M. D. 1993. “A Comparison of Voluntarily Childfree Adults and Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 55:643-650.
Stacey, Judith and Tim Biblarz. 2001. “How Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?” American Sociological Review 66: 159-183.
* Sullivan, Maureen. 1996. “Rozzie and Harriet? Gender and Family Patterns of Lesbian Couples.” Gender & Society 10 (6):747-767.
Townsend, Nicholas. Either of the two listed below:
Townsend, Nicholas W. 2002. The Package Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men’s Lives. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Townsend, Nicholas W. 2005. "Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women." Pp 105- 119 in Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective, 4th edition, edited by C. B. Brettell and C. F. Sargent. Pearson Educational Inc.
Umberson, Debra, Tetyana Pudrovska, and Corinne Reczek. 2010. “Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well- being: A Life Course Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 72: 612-629.
Wall, Glenda, 2001. “Moral Constructions of Motherhood in Breastfeeding Discourse.” Gender & Society 15, 4: 592-610.
Cross-listed:
* Harknett, Kristen and Sara McLanahan. 2004. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage after the Birth of a Child.” American Sociological Review. 69(6): 790. Primary listing in “family and relationships.”
Hill, Shirley A. 2005. Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Primary listing in “family and relationships.”
Family and Relationships:
* Amato, P. R., and A. Booth. 1995. “Changes in Gender-Role Attitudes and Perceived Marital Quality.” American Sociological Review 60: 58-66.
Brines, Julie and Kara Joyner. 1999. “The Ties That Bind: The Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage.” American Sociological Review 64: 333-355.
* Coontz, Stephanie. 1992. The Way we Never Were. Basic Books. Gerson, Kathleen. 2010. The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender. Oxford University Press.
Giddens, Anthony. 1992. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
* Giordano, P. C., M. A. Longmore, and W. D. Manning. 2006. “Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys.” American Sociological Review 71: 260-287.
* Harknett, Kristen and Sara McLanahan. 2004. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage after the Birth of a Child.” American Sociological Review. 69(6): 790.
Hill, Shirley A. 2005. Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Risman, Barbara. 1999. Gender Vertigo, American Families in Transition. Yale University Press.
* Rosenfeld, Michael J. 2007. The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Rosenfeld, Michael J., and Byung-Soo Kim. 2005. “The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same-Sex Unions. American Sociological Review 70: 541-562.
Stacey, Judith. 1996. In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age. Boston: Beacon Press.
Symposium on Marriage and its Future. 2004. Journal of Marriage and Family 66. Especially the following:
Cherlin, Andrew J. “The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage.” Pp.848-861.
Coontz, Stephanie. “The World Historical Transformation of Marriage.” Pp.974-979.
Kurdek, Lawrence. “Are Gay and Lesbian Couples Really Different from Heterosexual Married Couples? Pp.880-900.
Walker, Alexis. “A Symposium on Marriage and its Future.” Pp.843-847. Read this first.
* Waite, Linda. 1995. “Does Marriage Matter?” Demography. 32(4):483-508.
Waite, Linda. 2000. The Ties That Bind. NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Especially the following chapters:
England, Paula. “Marriage, the Costs of Children, and Gender Inequality.”
Weeks, Jeffrey. 2007. The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life. Routledge.
* Weeks, Jeffrey, and C. Donovan. 2001. Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life Experiments. London: Routledge
Intersectionality:
Acker, Joan. 2006. “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations.” Gender & Society 20: 441-464.
* Baca Zinn, Maxine and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1996. “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism.” Feminist Studies 22(2): 321-31.
Bettie, Julie. 2003. Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
* Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2007. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge. The original 1990 edition is fine too, but the 2007 edition has been updated and expanded.
Denis, Ann. 2008. “Review Essay: Intersectional Analysis.” International Sociology 23:677-694.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: historical continuities in the racial divisions of paid reproductive labor.” Signs 18(1):1-43.
* Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1999. "The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race" in Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber and Beth B. Hess (eds.), Revisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
* hooks, bell. 1981. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
McCall, Leslie. 2005. "The Complexity of Intersectionality.” Signs 30 (3): 1771-1800.
* Pyke, Karen and Denise Johnson. 2003. “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: ‘Doing’ Gender Across Cultural Worlds.” Gender & Society 17:33-53.
* Valocchi, Steve. 1999. “The Class-Inflected Nature of Gay Identity.” Social Problems 47: 207-224.
Cross-Listed:
Beasley, Christine. 2006. “Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a Globalizing World.” Men and Masculinities 11:86-103. Primary listing in “masculinities.”
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics. New York: Routledge. Primary listing in “Sexualities.”
Collins, Patricia Hill, Lionel Maldonado, Dana Takagi, Barrie Thorne, Lynne Weber, and Howard Winant, 1995. “On West and Fenstermaker’s ‘Doing Difference’”. Gender & Society 9(4):491-513. This is listed in Social Constructionist theories—it is part of the symposium on West and Fenstermaker. Ferguson, Ann Arnett. 2001. Bad Boys: The Making of Black Masculinity in Public Schools. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Primary listing in “Education.”
* Harknett, Kristen and Sara McLanahan. 2004. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage after the Birth of a Child.” American Sociological Review. 69(6): 790. Primary listing in “family and relationships.”
Hill, Shirley A. 2005. Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Chapters 1 and 6 are especially relevant. Primary listing in “family and relationships.”
* Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Primary listing in “parenting.”
Lareau, Annette. 2002. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families." American Sociological Review 67:747-76. Primary listing in “parenting.”
* Mirande, Alfredo. 1997. Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture. Boulder CO: Westview Press. Primary listing in “masculinities.”
Mohanty, Chandra Talpede. 1988. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" Feminist Review 30:61 88. Primary listing in “globalization.”
* Pyke, K. D. 1996. “Class-Based Masculinities: The Interdependence of Gender, Class, and Interpersonal Power.” Gender & Society 10(5): 527-549. Primary listing in “masculinities.”
* Staples, Robert. 1982. Black Masculinity. San Francisco, CA: Black Scholar Press. Primary listing in “masculinities.”
West, Candace and Fenstermaker, Sarah. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender & Society 9:8-37. Primary listing in “social constructionist perspectives.”
Religion:
Becker, Penny Edgell, and Heather Hofmeister. 2001. “Work, Family, and Religious Involvement for Men and Women.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(4): 707-722.
Brekus, Catherine A. 2007. The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. The University of North Carolina Press.
Devaus, D., and I. McAllister. 1987. “Gender Differences in Religion: A Test of the Structural Location Theory.” American Sociological Review 52: 472-481.
* Fetner, Tina. 2008. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Glass, Jennifer, and Leda E. Nash. 2006. “Religious Conservatism and Women’s Market Behavior Following Marriage and Childbirth.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68:611-629.
* Heath, Melanie. 2003. “Soft-Boiled Masculinity: Renegotiating Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement.” Gender & Society 17: 423-444.
* McAllister, Ian, and David de Vaus. 1987. “Gender Differences in Religion: A Test of Structural Location Theory.” American Sociological Review 52, 4 (August): 472-481.
McCarthy-Brown, Karen. 2001. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. The University of California Press.
Miller, Alan S., and Rodney Stark. 2002. “Gender and Religiousness: Can Socialization Explanations be Saved?” American Journal of Sociology 107, 6 (May): 1399-1423.
Pearce, Lisa D., and Arland Thornton. 2007. “Religious and Family Ideologies in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69:1227-1243.
* Pyke, K. D. 1996. “Class-Based Masculinities: The Interdependence of Gender, Class, and Interpersonal Power.” Gender & Society 10(5): 527-549.
* Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, and Sharon Oselin. 2008. “Gender and the Education-Employment Paradox in Ethnic and Religious contexts: The Case of Arab Americans.” American Sociological Review 73: 296-313. Primary listing in “Education.”
Roth, Louise Marie, and Jeffrey C. Kroll. 2007. “Risky Business: Assessing Risk-Preference Explanations for Gender Differences in Religiosity.” American Sociological Review 72, 2 (April): 205-220.
Schulssler-Fironenza, Elizabeth. 1994. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. The Crossroad Publishing Company.
Sullins, D. Paul. 2006. “Gender and Religion: Deconstructing Universality, Constructing Complexity.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 838-880.
* Trible, Phyllis. 1986. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Fortress Press.
Masculinities:
* Beasley, Christine. 2006. “Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a Globalizing World.” Men and Masculinities 11:86-103.
Bederman, Gail. 1996. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. University of Chicago Press. * Bird, Sharon. 1996. “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity.” Gender and Society. 10: 120-132.
Brod, H., and M. Kaufman, eds. 1994. Theorizing Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The entire book, but especially the following:
Coltraine, Scott. “Theorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Social Science,"
Kimmel, Michael. “Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity.”
Connell, R. W. 1992. "A Very Straight Gay: Masculinity, Homosexual Experience, and the Dynamics of Gender." American Sociological Review 57:735-751.
Connell, R.W. 1995. Masculinities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Connell, R. W. and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. "Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept." Gender & Society 19:829-859.
* Kimmel, Michael. 2000. “White Men are this Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity.” Rural Sociology 65: 582-604.
*Kimmel, Michael. 2008. Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.” New York: Harper.
* Majors, Richard, and Janet Mancini Billson. 1992. Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America. NY: Touchstone.
* Messner, Michael. 1990. “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18 (4): 416-444.
* Mirande, Alfredo. 1997. Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture. Boulder CO: Westview Press.
* Nye, Robert A. 2005. “Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men.” Signs 30, 3: 1937- 1962. This is useful for those who need a critical overview and introduction to the field.
Pascoe, C.J. 2007. Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
* Staples, Robert. 1982. Black Masculinity. San Francisco, CA: Black Scholar Press.
* Stoudt, Brett G. 2006. “’You’re Either In or You’re Out’ – School Violence, Peer Discipline, and the (Re)production of Hegemonic Masculinity.” Men and Masculinities 8:273-287.
Theory and Society Special Issue on Masculinities, October 1993, Volume 22 (5). Especially the following:
Donaldson, Mike. “What is Hegemonic Masculinity.” Dowsett, G.W. “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours: Gay men, Masculinity Research, Men’s Studies, and Sex.”
Segal, Lynne. “Changing Men: Masculinities in Context.”
Willis, Paul. 1977. Learning to Labor: How working class kids get working class jobs. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cross-Listed:
Ferguson, Ann Arnett. 2001. Bad Boys: The Making of Black Masculinity in Public Schools. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Primary listing in “Education.”
Hill, Shirley A. 2005. Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Chapter 7 is relevant to Black masculinity. Primary listing in “family and relationships.”
Risman, Barbara. 1987. “Intimate Relations from a Microstructural Perspective: Men Who Mother.” Gender & Society. 1:6-32. Primary listing in “parenting.”
Schrock, Douglas, and Michael Schwalbe. 2009. “Men, Masculinity and Manhood Acts.” Annual Review of Sociology 35: 277-295. Primary listing in “social constructinist perspectives.”
Uggen, C., and A. Blackstone. 2004. “Sexual Harrassment as a Gendered Expression of Power.” American Sociological Review 69:64-92. Primary listing under “violence.”
* Valocchi, Steve. 1999. “The Class-Inflected Nature of Gay Identity.” Social Problems 47: 207-224. Primary listing in “intersectionality.”
Public policy and the State:
Bianchi, Suzanne M. 1999. “Feminization and Juvenalization of Poverty: Trends, Relative Risks, Causes, and Consequences.” Annual Review of Sociology 25: 307-333.
Connell, R. W. 1990. “The State, Gender and Sexual Politics.” Theory and Society 19: 507-544.
Corcoran, Mary, Sandra K. Danziger, Ariel Kalil, and Kristin S. Seefeldt. 2000. "How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work." Annual Review of Sociology, 26:241-269.
Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein. 1996. “Work, Welfare, and Single Mothers: Economic Survival Strategies,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp.253-266.
* Folbre, Nancy. 1995. Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structure of Constraint. New York: Routledge. Gornick, Janet and Marcia Meyers. 2003. Families That Work. New York: Russell Sage. Selected readings.
Haney, Lynne. 1996. “Homeboys, Babies, Men in Suits: The State and the Reproduction of Male Dominance.” American Sociological Review 61: 758-778.
* Haney, Lynne. 2000. "Feminist State Theory: Applications to Jurisprudence, Criminology and the Welfare State." Annual Review of Sociology 26:641-666.
Hays, Sharon. 2003. Flat Broke With Children. New York: Oxford University Press.
* Heath, Melanie. 2009. “State of our Unions: Marriage Promotion and the Contested Power of Heterosexuality.” Gender & Society 23(1): 27-48.
* MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov. 2006. "A Welfare State Paradox: State Interventions and Women's Employment Opportunities in 22 Countries." American Journal of Sociology 111(6):1910-1949.
McLanahan, Sara, and Christine Percheski. 2008. “Family Structure and the Reproduction of Inequalities.” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 257-276.
Misra, Joya, Stephanie Moller, and Michelle J. Budig. 2007. “Work-Family Policies and Poverty for Partnered and Single Women in Europe and North America.” Gender & Society 21:804-827.
Orloff, Ann Shola. 1993. "Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States." American Sociological Review 58: 303-328.
Orloff, Ann Shola. 1996. “Gender in the Welfare State” Annual Review of Sociology 22: 51-78.
* Stier, Haya, Noah Lewin-Epstein, and Michael Braun. 2001. "Welfare Regimes, Family-Supportive Policies, and Women's Employment along the Life-Course." American Journal of Sociology 106: 1731- 1760.
* Viterna, Jocelyn, and Kathleen M. Fallon. 2008. “Democratization, Women’s Movements, and Gender- Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison.” American Sociological Review 74: 668-689. Cross-listed:
* Singley, Susan G; Hynes, Kathryn. 2005. “Transitions to Parenthood: Work-Family Policies, Gender, and the Couple Context.” Gender & Society, 19:(3)376-397. Primary listing in “Parenting.”
Globalization and development:
Acker, Joan. 2004. “Gender, Capitalism, and Globalization.” Critical Sociology 30, 1: 17-41. * Charrad, Mounira. 2001. States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press.
* Connell, R.W.. 2005. “Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena.” Signs 30, 3: 1801-1825.
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2003. Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. NY: Metropolitican Books.
* Enloe, Cynthia. 2001. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.
Freeman, Carla. 2001. “Is Local : Global as Feminine : Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization.” Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Gender and Globalization 26, 4:1007-1037.
* Moghadam, Valentine. 2005. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
* Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpede. 1988. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" Feminist Review 30:61 88.
Villarreal, Andrés, and Wei-hsin Yu. 2007. “Economic Globalization and Women’s Employment: The Case of Manufacturing in Mexico.” American Sociological Review 72: 365-389.
Cross-listed:
Some of the articles in “public policy and the state” might be relevant.
Sexualities:
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (Eds.). 1993. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge. Especially the readings below, some of which are also published elsewhere (as noted below):
Bulter, Judith. 2000. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Revista de Occidente 235:85-109.
D'Emilio, John. “Capitalism and Gay Identity.”
Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5 (4): 631-660.
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” * Beisel, Nocola, and Tamara Kay. 2004. “Abortion, Race, and Gender in 19th Century America.” American Sociological Review 69: 498-518.
* Bernstein, Elizabeth. 2007. Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1980- 1940. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics. New York: Routledge.
D’Emilio, John. 1998. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Dozier, Raine. 2005. "Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World." Gender & Society 19:297-316.
* Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books.
Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books.
Gamson, Joshua. 1997. “Messages of Exclusion: Gender, Movements, and Symbolic Boundaries.” Gender & Society. 11: 178-199.
Gamson, Joshua and Dawne Moon. 2004. “The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond.” Annual Review of Sociology 30:47-64.
* Hamilton, Laura and Elizabeth A. Armstrong. “Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options.” Gender & Society. 23:589- 616.
Logan, Trevon D. 2010. “Personal Characteristics, Sexual Behaviors, and Male Sex Work: A Quantitative Approach.” American Sociological Review 75: 679-704.
Schilt, Kristen. 2006. “Just One of the Guys? How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work.” Gender & Society 20: 465-490.
Schilt, Kristen and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. "Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals," Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality." Gender & Society 23:440-464.
Seidman, Steven. 1996. Queer Theory/Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Especially the following:
Epstein, Steven. “A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality”
Cohen, Cathy. “Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS.” * Vance, C. 1989. Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Routledge. Especially the following:
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex”
Vance, Carole. “Pleasure and Danger” (Introduction)
Weitzer, Ronald. 2009. Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry. New York: Routledge.
Williams, Christine, and Arlene Stein. 2002. Sexuality and Gender. Blackwell Publishers. Selections.
Cross-Listed:
* Gagne, P., R. Tewksbury, and D. McGaughey. 1997. “Coming Out and Crossing Over: Identity Formation and Proclamation in a Transgender Community.” Gender & Society 11:478-508. Primary listing in “social constructionist.”
Stacey, Judith and Tim Biblarz. 2001. “How Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?” American Sociological Review 66: 159-183. Primary listing in “parenting.”
Queer Theory:
Gamson, J. 1995. “Must Identify Movements Self Destruct: A Queer Dilemma.” Social Problems 42:390- 407.
* King, Dave, and Richard Elkins. 1999. “Toward a Sociology of Transgendered Bodies.” Sociological Review 47.
Kirsch, Max. 2000. Queer Theory and Social Change. New York, NY: Routledge.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Symposium on Queer Theory/Sociology: A Debate. 1994. Sociological Theory 12(2): pp.166-248. Especially the readings listed below (others are optional):
Ingraham, Chrys. 1994. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 203-19.
Namaste, Ki. 1994. “The Politics of Inside/Out: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism, and a Scociological Approach to Sexuality.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 220-231.
Seidman, Steven. 1994. “Queer-ing Sociology, Sociologizing Queer Theory: An Introduction.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 166-177.
Stein, Arlene, Kenneth Plummer. “I Can’t Even Think Straight? ‘Queer’ Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology” Sociological Theory 12(2): 178-187. 1994 * Valocchi, Steven. 2005. “Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality.” Gender & Society 19:750.
Warner, Michael, ed. 1993. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Cross-Listed:
* Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble, second edition. New York: Routledge. Primary listing in “Postmodern.”
* Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge. Primary listing in “Postmodern.”
Gamson, Joshua and Dawne Moon. 2004. “The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond.” Annual Review of Sociology 30:47-64. Primary listing in “sexualities.”
Sexual Aggression & Violence against Women:
Anderson, Kristin L., and Debra Umberson. 2001. “Gendering Violence: Masculinity and Power in Men’s Accounts of Domestic Violence.” Gender & Society 15: 358-380.
Anderson, Kristin L. 1997. “Gender, Status, and Domestic Violence: An Integration of Feminist and Family Violence Approaches.” Journal of Marriage and Family 59: 655-669.
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney. 2006. “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape.” Social Problems 53: 483-499.
Berns, Nancy. 2001. “Degendering the Problem and Gendering the Blame: Political Discourse on Women and Violence.” Gender & Society, 15(2): 262-281.
Browne, Angela. 1987. When Battered Women Kill. New York, NY: Free Press.
Dworkin, Andrea. 1989. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: E.P. Dutton.
* Jones, Nikki. 2009. Between Good and Ghetto: American Girls and Inner-City Violence. Rutgers University Press.
Johnson, Michael P. 2006. “Conflict and Control: Gender Symmetry and Asymmetry in Domestic Violence.” Violence Against Women 12: 1003-1018 (Also reprinted elsewhere).
Hollander, Jocelyn A. 2001. “Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence.” Gender & Society, 15(1): 83-109.
Kimmel, Michael S. 2002. "'Gender Symmetry' in Domestic Violence." Violence Against Women 8:1332- 1363. * Martin, Patricia Yancey, and Robert A. Hummer. 1989. “Fraternities and Rape on Campus.” Gender & Society 17:342-366.
Nason-Clark, Nancy. 2009. “Christianity and the Experience of Domestic Violence: What Does Faith Have to do With it?” Social Work & Christianity 36(4): 379-393.
Uggen, C., and A. Blackstone. 2004. “Sexual Harrassment as a Gendered Expression of Power.” American Sociological Review 69:64-92.
Cross-listed:
* Majors, Richard, and Janet Mancini Billson. 1992. Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America. NY: Touchstone. Primary listing in “masculinities.”
Health and Aging:
Almeling, Rene. 2007. “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material.” American Sociological Review 72: 319-340.
* Calasanti, Toni and Neal King. 2005. "Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men." Men and Masculinities 8:3-23.
* Calasanti, Toni, and Kathleen F. Slevin. 2001. Gender, Structural Inequalities, and Aging. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Courtenay, Will H. 2000. “Constructions of Masculinity and their Influences on Men’s Well-Being: A Theory of Gender and Health.” Social Science and Medicine 50: 1384-1401.
Denton, M., and V. Walters. 1999. “Gender Differences in Structural and Behavioral Determinants of Health: An Analysis of the Social Production of Health.” Social Science and Medicine 48: 1221-1235.
Dillaway, Heather E. 2005. “Menopause is the “Good Old”: Women’s Thoughts about Reproductive Aging.” Gender & Society 19: 398-417.
Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., and T. L. Newton. 2001. “Marriage and Health: His and Hers.” Psychological Bulletin 127: 472-503.
* Lorbor, Judith, and Lisa Jean Moore. 2002. Gender and the Social Construction of Illness. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
* Martin, Emily. 2001. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press.
* Meadows, Sarah O., Sara S. McLanahan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2008. “Stability and Change in Family Structure and Maternal Health Trajectories.” American Sociological Review 73: 314-334. * O’Brien, Mary. 1981. The Politics of Reproduction. NY: Routledge.
Russell, Cherry. 2007. “What Do Older Men and Women Want?” Current Sociology 55: 173-192
Silver, Catherine B. 2003. Gendered Identities in Old Age: Toward (de)Gendering? Journal of Aging Studies, 17: 379-397.
Cross-listed:
Rippyoung, Phyllis L. F., and Mary C. Nooman. 2012. “Is Breastfeeding Truly Cost Free? Income Consequences of Breastfeeding for Women.” American Sociological Review 77: 244-267. Primary listing in “parenting.”
Wall, Glenda, 2001. “Moral Constructions of Motherhood in Breastfeeding Discourse.” Gender & Society 15, 4: 592-610. Primary listing in “parenting.”
The Body:
Bordo, Susan. 1993. Unbearable Weight. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Young, Iris Marion. 2005. On Female Body Experience. New York: Oxford University Press. Especially the essay “Throwing like a Girl.”
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books.
Gane, Patricia, and Deanna McGaughey. 2002. “Designing Women: Cultural Hegemony and the Exercise of Power among Women Who Have Undergone Elective Mammoplasty.”
Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Mason, K. 2012. "The Unequal Weight of Discrimination: Gender, Body Size, and Income Inequality." Social Problems 59(3).
Cross-listed:
Connell, R.W. 1995. Masculinities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Education/Child Development:
Buchmann, Claudia, Thomas A. DiPrete, and Anne McDaniel. 2008. "Gender Inequalities in Education." Annual Review of Sociology 34:319-337. Buchmann, Claudia and Thomas A. Diprete. 2006. “The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement.” American Sociological Review 71: 515-541.
Charles, Maria, and Karen Bradley. 2002. “Equal but Separate? A Cross-National Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education” American Sociological Review 67 573-599.
Charles, Maria, and Karen Bradley. 2009. “Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries” American Journal of Sociology 114:924-976.
Correll, Shelley J. 2001. “Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Biased Self-Assessments.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1297-1338.
* England, Paula, and Su Li. 2006. “Desegregation Stalled: The Changing Gender Composition of College Majors, 1971-2002. Gender & Society 20: 657-677.
Ferguson, Ann Arnett. 2001. Bad Boys: The Making of Black Masculinity in Public Schools. Ann Arbor, MI: University of American Sociological Review Michigan Press.
Fine, Gary Alan. 1983. With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Leahey, Erin. 2007. “Not by Productivity Alone: How Visibility and Specialization Contribute to Academic Earnings.” American Sociological Review 72(4): 533-561.
Risman, Barbara. 2009. “Socialization into Gender.” In Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions, eds. Charon and Vigilant. Cengage Learning.
* Xie, Yu and Kimberlee A. Shauman. 1998. “Sex Difference in Research Productivity: New Evidence about an Old Puzzle.” American Sociological Review 63: 847-870.
Cross-listed:
* Jones, Nikki. 2009. Between Good and Ghetto: American Girls and Inner-City Violence. Rutgers University Press. Primary listing in “violence.”
* Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers Press. Primary listing in “social contructionist” perspectives.
Feminism & Social Movements:
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Yvonne Braun. 2010. Coal, identity, and the gendering of environmental justice activism in Central Appalachia. Gender & Society 24(6): 794-813. Burnes, G. 2006. The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Einwohner, Rachel L., Jocelyn A. Hollander, Toska Olson. 2000. Engendering social movements: Cultural images and movement dynamics. Gender & Society 14(5): 679-699.
Ergas (2012). “Women’s status and carbon dioxide emissions: A quantitative cross-national analysis.” Social Science Research 41:965-976. (ER)
Gamson, J. 1995. “Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct: A Queer Dilemma.” Social Problems 42(3):390-407.
Hercus, Cheryl. 1999. Identity, emotion, and feminist collective action. Gender & Society 13: 34-55.
Moghadam, V.M. “Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization.” International Sociology 15(1): 57-85.
Peltola, Pia, Melissa A. Milkie, and Stanley Presser. 2004. The "feminist" mystique: Feminist identity in three generations of women. Gender & Society 18: 122-144.
Taylor, V. 1999. “Gender and Social Movements: Gender Processes in Women’s Self-Help Movements.” Gender & Society 13(1): 8-33.
Zajicek, Anna M. 2002. Race discourses and antiracist practices in a local women's movement. Gender & Society 16(2): 155-174.
Historical-Comparative:
Adams, Julia. 2005. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Cornell University Press.
Adams, Julia. 1998. “Feminist Theory as Fifth Columnist or Discursive Vanguard? Some Contested Uses of Gender Analysis is Historical Sociology.” Social Politics 5(1): 1-16.
Charrad, Mounira. 2001. States and Women’s Rights: the Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Clemens, Elisabeth. 1993. “Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women’s Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics 1890-1920.” American Journal of Sociology 98(4): 755-98.
Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. Marriage, a History. New York: Viking.
Coontz, Stephanie. 2000. “Historical Perspectives on Family Studies.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62(2):283-297. Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 2009. The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting Welfare States to Women's New Roles. Polity.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2010. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Goldstone, Jack A. 1996. “Gender, Work and Culture: Why the Industrial Revolution Came Early to England but Late in China.” Sociological Perspectives 39(1): 1-21.
Htun, Mala. 2003. Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce and the Family under Latin American Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Inglehart, Ronald and Pippa Norris. Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change around the World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
O’Connor, Julia S., Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver. 1999. Families, Gender Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Ozouf, Mona. 1998. Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity. University of Chicago Press.
Pfau-Effinger, B. 2004. “Socio-historical Paths of the Male-Breadwinner Model: An Explanation of Cross- National Differences.” British Journal of Sociology 55(3):377-399.
Saguy, Abigail. 2003. What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Stacey, Judith. 2011. Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China. NYU Press.
Thistle, Susan. 2006. From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Whittier, Nancy. 1995. Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Cross-Listed:
Gerson, Kathleen. 2010. The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender. Oxford University Press. Primary listing in “Family and relationships.”
Orloff, Ann Shola. 1993. "Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States." American Sociological Review 58: 303-328. Primary listing in “Public policy and the state.”
Orloff, Ann Shola. 1996. “Gender in the Welfare State” Annual Review of Sociology 22: 51-78. Primary listing in “Public policy and the state.”
NOTES:
* Readings without asterisks are suggested as core readings for all students; however, you will only be tested on your chosen concentrations. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with all areas, especially if you consider gender to be your primary interest. But you will only be tested on two areas so you may do the additional reading at your leisure.