CORE TOPICS: (38 Readings) All Students Are Expected to Be Familiar with the Core Readings: Foundations, Theory, and Methods. FO
CORE TOPICS: (38 readings)
All students are expected to be familiar with the core readings: Foundations, Theory, and Methods.
FOUNDATIONS: (5 readings)
Acker, Joan, 1992. “From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions.” Contemporary Sociology 21, 5: 565-569. 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. Note that there is an interesting symposium on this article in volume 25 (2011: “An Unfinished Revolution: England Symposium.” Gender & Society 25(1):75), but it is not required reading.
Ferree, Myra Marx. 2010. "Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 72:420-439. Stacey, Judith and Barrie Thorne. 1985. “The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology.” Social Problems 32 (4):301-317. There is also a symposium on this article in volume 53 (in 2006: “‘The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology’ Twenty Years Later: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” Social Problems 53 (4): 443-82.), but only the 4-page overview (by Joan Acker) is required here.
THEORY:
Structural Perspectives: (5 readings)
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. Collins, Patricia Hill. 1989. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought.” Signs 14(4):745-773. In Linda Nicholson, ed. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. New York: Routledge:
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: (9 readings) Deutsch, Francine, 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender & Society 21: 106-127. Read West and Zimmerman (below) before reading Deutsch.
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. Chapter 1 only. West, Candace and Don Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender and Society 1:125-151. There is a symposium in volume 23 (2009. “ ‘Doing Gender’ as Canon or Agenda: A Symposium on West and Zimmerman.” Gender & Society 23 (1): 72-122.), but it is optional.
West, Candace and Fenstermaker, Sarah. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender & Society 9:8-37. Also read the symposium in volume 9 (1995. “On West and Fenstermaker's ‘Doing Difference’”. Gender & Society 9:491-506.)
Postmodern critiques: (5 readings)
Lorber, Judith. 1996. “Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing the Categories of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender.” Sociological Inquiry 66(2):143-159.
Nicholson, Linda J., ed. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism. New York : Routledge. Read Chapter 1 (Fraser and Nicholson), Chapter 4 (Harding), Chapter 6 (Bordo), and Chapter 13 (Butler).
Biosocial perspectives: (4 readings)
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. Stacey, Judith. 2006. “Feminism and sociology in 2005: What are we missing?” Social Problems 53(4):479-482.
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: (10 readings) Acker, Joan. 1973. “Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism.” American Journal of Sociology 78:936-945. Haraway, Donna. 1988. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of the Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14:575-600. Harding, Sandra. 2009. “Standpoint Theories: Productively Controversial.” Hypatia 24(4):192-200. Harding, Sandra. 1988. Feminism and Methodology. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press. Especially chapters I (Harding), VII (Dorothy Smith), XI (Hartstock), and XII (Harding).
Lorde, Audre. 1979. “The Master’s Tools Will never Dismantle the Master’s House.” in Sister Outsider. Trumansburg NY: The Crossing Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1986. “Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought.” Social Problems 33(6):S14-S32. Thompson, Linda. 1992. “Feminist Methodology for Family Studies.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 54 (3):3-18.
Optional: Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Optional: Harding, Sandra. 1998. Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Optional: Naples, Nancy. 2004. Feminism and Method. New York: Routledge. Especially parts 1 and 2. Optional: Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
MAJOR THEMES & SPECIALIZATIONS:
You will pick two of the options below. You are encouraged to add relevant readings to your chosen lists. Specialty reading lists should contain 18-22 readings each (see exam guidelines). If your topic is not covered adequately below you may suggest an alternative list. However, approval will depend upon the entire committee’s approval. The committee may decline topics outside their expertise.
Employment and Labor: (15 readings)
Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4: 139-158.
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. 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. 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. Cohen, Phillip, and Matt Huffman. 2007. “Working for the Woman: Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap.” American Sociological Review 72(5):681-704. Coltrane, Scott. 2000. “Research on household labor: Modeling and measuring the social embeddedness of routine family work.” Journal of Marriage and Family 62(4): 1208-1233. 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. Marting, Patricia Yancey. 2003. “‘Said and Done’ versus ‘Saying and Doing’: Gendering Practices, Practicing Gender at Work.” Gender & Society 17(3):342-366. 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. Time and the Division of Household Labor: (16 readings)
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. Blair-Loy, Mary, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Allison J. Pugh, Williams, Joan C. Williams, and Heidi Hartmann. 2015. “Stability and transformation in gender, work, and family: insights from the second shift for the next quarter century.” Community Work & Family 18(4):435-454. Note: I am assigning this article in lieu of the two Hochschil books below, which are entirely optional:
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.
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.
Fuwa, Makiko. 2004. “Macro-Level Gender Inequality and the Division of Household Labor in 22 Countries.” American Sociological Review 69(6):751-67. Gough, Margaret, and Alexandra Killewald. “Unemployment in Families: The Case of Housework.” Journal of Marriage and Family 73(5): 1085-1100 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. Hook, Jennifer. 2017. Women’s Housework: New Tests of Time and Money. Journal of Marriage and Family 79:179-198. 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. Killewald, Alexandra, and Margaret Gough. 2010. “Money isn't everything: Wives' earnings and housework time.” Social Science Research 39(6): 987-1003 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. Thébaud, Sarah. 2010. "Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning." G ender & Society 24:330-354. Parenting: (19 readings) Bianchi, Suzanne M. 2000. “Maternal Employment and Time With Children: Dramatic Change or Surprising Continuity?” Demography 37: 139-154. Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep. UC Press. Only the introduction is required reading.
Fomby, Paula, and Andrew J. Cherlin. 2007. “Family Instability and Child Well-Being.” American Sociological Review 72: 181-204. Gillespie, R. 2003. “Childfree and Feminine: Understanding the Gender Identity of Voluntarily Childless Women.” Gender & Society 17: 122-136. Guzzo, Karen Benjamin, and, Sarah R. Hayford. 2020. “Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Contexts: Decade in Review, 2020.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):117-144. 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. 2002. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families." American Sociological Review 67:747-76. Note: There is also a related book, but it is optional: Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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. Nomaguchi, Kei, and Melissa A. Milkie. 2020. “Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):198-223. 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. 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. Stacey, Judith and Tim Biblarz. 2001. “How Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?” American Sociological Review 66: 159-183. 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. Tach, Laura, Kathryn Edin, Hope Harvey, and Brielle Bryan. 2014. “The Family-Go-Round: Family Complexity and Father Involvement from a Father's Perspective.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 654:169-184. 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.
Family and Relationships: (16 readings)
Brines, Julie and Kara Joyner. 1999. “The Ties That Bind: The Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage.” American Sociological Review 64: 333-355. 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.
Reczek, Corinne. 2020. “Sexual- and Gender-Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):300-325. 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. 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. England, Paula. “Marriage, the Costs of Children, and Gender Inequality.” in Waite, Linda, editor. 2000. The Ties That Bind. NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Van Bavel, Jan; Schwartz, Christine R.; Esteve, Albert. 2018. “The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Its Consequences for Family Life.” Annual Review of Sociology 44:341-360.
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: (15 readings)
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. 2000. Women Without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash, and the Presence/Absence of Class Identity. Signs 26(1):1-35. Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2015. “Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas.” Annual Review of Sociology 41:1-20.
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 also listed in Social Constructionist theories—it is part of the symposium on West and Fenstermaker--so I am not including it in the reading count for this section, to avoid double-counting.
Denis, Ann. 2008. “Review Essay: Intersectional Analysis.” International Sociology 23:677-694. Few-Demo, April L., and Katherine R. Allen. 2020. “Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):326-345.
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. Religion: (14 readings)
Ammons, Samantha K., Penny Edgell. 2007. “Religious influences on work-family trade-offs.” Journal of Family Issues 28(6):794-826.
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. Charrad, Mounira M. 2011. “Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:417-437. Devaus, D., and I. McAllister. 1987. “Gender Differences in Religion: A Test of the Structural Location Theory.” American Sociological Review 52: 472-481. 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. Hayford, Sarah R., S. Philip Morgan. 2008. “Religiosity and fertility in the United States: The role of fertility intentions.” Social Forces 86(3): 1163-1188.
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. 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. Sullins, D. Paul. 2006. “Gender and Religion: Deconstructing Universality, Constructing Complexity.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 838-880. Masculinities: (19 readings)
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. Read the introduction. Bird, Sharon. 1996. “Welcome to the Men’s Club: Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity.” Gender and Society. 10: 120-132. Bowleg, Lisa, and Michelle Teti, Jenne S. Massie. 2011. “'What does it take to be a man? What is a real man?': ideologies of masculinity and HIV sexual risk among Black heterosexual men.” Culture Health & Sexuality 13(5): 545-559 Brod, H., and M. Kaufman, eds. 1994. Theorizing Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The entire book is recommended, but only the following two readings are required: 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. 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. Read the introduction only. Schrock, Douglas, and Michael Schwalbe. 2009. “Men, Masculinity and Manhood Acts.” Annual Review of Sociology 35: 277-295. This is also listed in “social constructinist perspectives.” Since you should have already read it there, I am not including it in the reading count for this section.
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.”
Inequality, public policy, and the state: (18 readings)
Berger, Lawrence M., and Marcia J. Carlson. 2020. “Family Policy and Complex Contemporary Families: A Decade in Review and Implications for the Next Decade of Research and Policy Practice.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):478-507. 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. Cooper, Marianne, and Allison J. Pugh. 2020. “Families Across the Income Spectrum: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):272-299. 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. Edin, Kathryn, and Rebecca Joyce Kissane. 2010. “Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72(3):460-479. 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. 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. Introduction only. 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. Globalization and development: (20 readings--the list looks short, but there are a few books)
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. Dodoo, F. Nii-Amoo, and Ashley E. Frost. 2008. “Gender in African population research: The fertility/reproductive health example.” Annual Review of Sociology 34:431-452. 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.
Herrera, Gioconda. 2013. “Gender and International Migration: Contributions and Cross-Fertilizations.” Annual Review of Sociology 39:471-489. Hondagneu Sotelo, P., and E. Avila. 1997. “''I'm here, but I'm there'' - The meanings of Latina transnational motherhood.” Gender & Society 5:548-571.
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. Sexualities: (20 readings)
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (Eds.). 1993. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge. 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”
th Beisel, Nocola, and Tamara Kay. 2004. “Abortion, Race, and Gender in 19 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.
Optional: 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. Schilt, Kristen, and Danya Lagos. 2017. “The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 43:425-443. Seidman, Steven. 1996. Queer Theory/Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Read 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. Read the following: Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex”
Vance, Carole. “Pleasure and Danger” (Introduction) Optional: Weitzer, Ronald. 2009. Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry. New York: Routledge.
Queer Theory: (17 readings--list looks short, but there are a few books)
Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble, second edition. New York: Routledge. Gamson, J. 1995. “Must Identify Movements Self Destruct: A Queer Dilemma.” Social Problems 42:390-407.
Gamson, Joshua and Dawne Moon. 2004. “The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond.” Annual Review of Sociology 30:47-64. 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. Optional: 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.
Sexual Aggression & Violence against Women: (15 readings)
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., Miriam Gleckman-Krut, and Lanora Johnson. 2006. “Silence, Power, and Inequality: An Intersectional Approach to Sexual Violence.” Annual Review of Sociology 44:99-122. 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. Dworkin, Andrea. 1989. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: E.P. Dutton. Otional: 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). Hardesty, Jennifer L.; Ogolsky, Brian G. 2020. “A Socioecological Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence Research: A Decade in Review.” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):454-477. 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. Health and Aging: (18 readings)
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. 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. Note: There are some articles in the “Parenting” section that are relevant too (e.g., breastfeeding).
The Body: (List incomplete--See note below.)
Bordo, Susan. 1993. Unbearable Weight. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Young, Iris Marion. 2005. On Female Body Experience. New York: Oxford University Press. Read the essay “Throwing like a Girl.” The rest is optional.
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.” Gender & Society 16(6): 814-838.
Optional: 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). NOTE: This list is incomplete. Any student desiring a focus on the body must contact the chair, who will assess committee willingness to read this topic and will, as appropriate, develop a complete list.
Education/Child Development: (List incomplete--See note below.)
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.
Thorne, B. 2003. “Girls and boys together but mostly apart: Gender arrangements in elementary … school.” In Mark Hussey (Ed.), Masculinities: Interdisciplinary Readings. 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. Optional: 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. Kessler, Suzanne, and Wendy McKenna. 1978. “Developmental Aspects of Gender.” From Gender: An Ethnomethodological Account Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.81-110. 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. NOTE: This list is incomplete. Any student desiring a focus on education must contact the chair, who will assess committee willingness to read this topic and will, as appropriate, develop a complete list.
Feminism & Social Movements: (List incomplete--See note below.)
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. NOTE: This list is incomplete. Any student desiring a focus on social movements must contact the chair, who will assess committee willingness to read this topic and will, as appropriate, develop a complete list.
Historical-Comparative: (List needs updating--See note below.)
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.
NOTE: This list needs updating. Any student desiring a focus on social movements must contact the chair, who will assess committee willingness to read this topic and will, as appropriate, develop a complete list.