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OF AND SEXUALITY

Revised November 19, 2015

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

Bettie, Julie. 2003. Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Butler, Judith. 1999. , second edition. New York: Routledge.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought. New York and London: Routledge.

Deutsch, Francine, 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender & 21: 106-127

Jurik, Nancy C. and Cynthia Epstein. (plus Dorothy E. Smith, Barbara J. Risman, James W. Messerschmidt, Nikki Jones, Celia Kitzinger, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Raewyn Connell, and Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman). 2009. ’’ as Canon or Agenda: A Symposium on West and Zimmerman.” Gender & Society 23(1): 72-122.

Kang, Miliann. 2010. The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lorber, Judith. 1993. “Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology.” Gender & Society 7(4):568–81.

Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social .” Social Forces 82:1249- 73.

Misra, Joya, ed. 2012. "Symposium on the Contributions of ." Gender & Society 26:5-72. (9 brief essays).

Ridgeway, Cecilia and Shelly J. Correll. 2004. "Unpacking the : A Theoretical Perspective on Gender Beliefs and Social Relations." Gender & Society, 18 (4): 510-531.

Ridgeway, Cecilia L.; Li, Yan E.; Erickson, Kristan G.; Backor, Kristen; Tinkler, Justine E. 2009. “How Easily Does a Social Difference Become a Status Distinction? Gender Matters.” American Sociological Review 74(1):44-62.

Risman, Barbara. 2004. "Gender as a : Theory Wrestling with Activism." Gender & Society 18:429-50.

Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: A . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

1 West, Candace and Donald Zimmerman. 1987. "Doing Gender." Gender and Society 1:125-151.

Westbrook, Laurel and Kristen Schilt. 2014. “Doing Gender, Determining Gender: People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the /Gender/Sexuality System.” Gender & Society 28(1):32–57.

MASCULINITIES

Bridges, Tristan. 2014. “A Very ‘’ Straight?: Hybrid , Sexual Aesthetics, and the Changing Relationship between and Homophobia.” Gender & Society 28(1):58–82.

Connell, Raewyn. and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. ": Rethinking the concept." Gender & Society, 19:829-859.

Heath, Melanie. 2003. “Soft-Boiled Masculinity: Renegotiating Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement.” Gender & Society 17(3): 423- 444.

Kimmel, Michael. 1994. “Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame, and silence in the construction of .” Pp. 119-41 in Theorizing Masculinities, edited by H Brod, M Kaufman. Sage.

Messner, Michael. 1990. “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities” Journal of Contemporary 18 (4): 416-444.

Pascoe, C. J. 2012. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

GENDER INEQUALITY

Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn. 2007. “The .” The Economists’ Voice 4: 1553-3832.

Brooks, Bradley, Jennifer Jarman, and Robert M. Blackburn. 2003. "Occupational Gender Segregation in Canada, 1981–1996: Overall, Vertical and Horizontal Segregation." Canadian Review of Sociology 40(2):197-213.

Cha, Youngjoo. 2013. "Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Segregation in Occupations." Gender & Society 27(2):158-184.

Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. 2009. “Indulging our gendered selves? by Field of Study in 44 countries.” American Journal of Sociology 114:924-76.

2 Cohen, Philip N., and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. “Individuals, Jobs, and Labor Markets: The Devaluation of Women’s Work.” American Sociological Review 68:443-63.

Engels, Frederick. 1975 [1942]. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. NY: International Publishers.

England, Paula. 2005. “Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: the Role of Motherhood and Segregation.” Social Politics 12: 264-88.

England, Paula. 2010. “The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled.” Gender & Society 24(2):149–66.

Ferrao, Vincent. 2010. “Paid Work.” Women in Canada: A Gender Based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada. Catalogue No. 89-503-X.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: historical continuities in the racial divisions of paid reproductive labor.” Signs 18(1):1-43.

Hartmann, Heidi. 1976. “Capitalism, , and Job Segregation by Sex.” Signs 1:137–69.

Huffman, Matt L., Philip N. Cohen, and Jessica Pearlman. 2010. "Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Desegregation, 1975-2005." Administrative Science Quarterly. 55(2): 255-277.

Kaufman, Robert L. 2002. "Assessing Alternative Perspectives on Race and Sex Employment Segregation." American Sociological Review 67(4):547-63.

Moore, Mignon R. 2008. “Gendered Power Relations among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Stepfamilies.” American Sociological Review 73(2):335-356.

Percheski, Christine. 2008. “Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women's Employment Rates from 1960 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 73(3):497-517.

Reskin, Barbara. 1993. "Sex Segregation in the Workplace." Annual Review of Sociology 19:241-270.

Williams, Christine L. 2013. “The Glass Escalator, Revisited: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times.” Gender & Society 27(5):609–29.

GENDER, WORK AND FAMILY

Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4(2): 139-158.

3 Bianchi, Suzanne M., John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie. 2006. Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Boushey, Heather. 2008. “Opting Out? The Effect of Children on Women’s Employment in the United States.” Feminist Economics 14: 1-36.

Cha, Youngjoo. 2010. “Reinforcing Separate Spheres: The Effect of Spousal Overwork on Men’s and Women’s Employment in Dual-Earner Households.” American Sociological Review 75(2):303-329.

Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1297-1338.

Damaske, Sarah, Joshua M. Smyth, and Matthew J. Zawadzki. 2014. "Has Work Replaced Home as a Haven? Re-examining Arlie Hochschild's Time Bind Proposition with Objective Stress Data." & Medicine 115:130-138

Doucet, Andrea. 2006. Do Men Mother? Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Chaps. 4, 5, 6.

Erickson, Rebecca J. 2005. "Why Emotion Work Matters: Sex, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor." Journal of Marriage and Family 67:337-351.

Glavin, Paul, Scott Schieman, and Sarah Reid. 2011. “Boundary-Spanning Work Demands and Their Consequences for Guilt and Psychological Distress.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52(1):43–57.

Gupta, Sanjiv. 2007. “Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship Between Married Women’s Earnings and Housework.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69(2):399-417.

Gerstel, Naomi, and Dan Clawson. 2014. "Class Advantage and the Gender Divide: Flexibility on the Job and at Home." American Journal of Sociology 120(2):395- 431.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Ernestine Avila. 1997. “‘I’m here, but I’m there’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood.” Gender & Society 11(5): 548- 571.

Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson. 2004. The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. NY: Basic Books.

Marshall, Katherine. 2009. “The Family Work Week.” Perspectives on Labour and Income. Statistics Canada. Catalogue No. 75-001-X.

4 Milkie, Melissa A., Sarah M. Kendig, Kei M. Nomaguchi, and Kathleen E. Denny. 2010. “Time With Children, Children’s Well-Being, and Work-Family Balance Among Employed Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 1329-43.

Rosenfeld, Michael J. 2007. The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Singley, Susan G; Hynes, Kathryn. 2005. “Transitions to Parenthood: Work-Family Policies, Gender, and the Couple Context.” Gender & Society, 19:(3)376-397.

Simon, Robin. 1995. “Gender, Multiple Roles, Role Meaning and Mental Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:182–94.

Young, Marisa and Blair Wheaton. 2013. “The Impact of Neighborhood Composition on Work-Family Conflict and Distress.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(4):481–97.

GENDER AND THE STATE

Bakan, Abigail and Daiva Stasiulis. 2005. Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Chang, Mariko Lin. 2000. "The evolution of sex segregation regimes." American Journal of Sociology 105(6):1658-1701.

Choo, Hae Yeon. 2013. “The Cost of Rights: Migrant Women, Feminist Advocacy, and Gendered Morality in South Korea.” Gender & Society 27(4):445–68.

Enloe, Cynthia. 2001. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Haney, Lynne. 2000. "Feminist State Theory: Applications to Jurisprudence, and the Welfare State." Annual Review of Sociology 26:641-666.

Jarman, Jennifer, Robert Blackburn, and Girts Racko. 2012. “The Dimensions of Occupational Gender Segregation in Industrial Countries.” British Journal of Sociology, 46 (6):1003-1019.

Misra, Joya. 2003. "Women as Agents in Welfare State Development: A Cross-National Analysis of Family Allowance Adoption." Socio-Economic Review 1(2):185-214.

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.

5 GENDER POLITICS, SEXUAL POLITICS

Armstrong, Elizabeth A. 2002. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 1 (pp.1- 28).

Baca Zinn, Maxine and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1996. “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial .” Feminist Studies 22(2): 321-31.

Bernstein, Mary. 1997. “Celebration and Supression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement.” American Journal of Sociology 103(3):531–65.

Coontz, Stephanie. 1992. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York, NY: BasicBooks.

Ferree, Myra Marx. 2012. Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Fetner, Tina. 2008. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Heath, Melanie. 2012. One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America. New York: New York University Press.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. “‘Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles.” Signs 28(2): 499-535.

Perrin, Andrew J., Philip N. Cohen, and Neal Caren. 2013. “Are Children of Parents Who Had Same-Sex Relationships Disadvantaged? A Scientific Evaluation of the No- Differences Hypothesis.” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 17(3):327–36.

Stacey, Judith and Barrie Thorne. 1985. “The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology.” Social Problems 32 (4):301-317.

Taylor, Verta and Nancy Whittier, eds. 1999. Gender & Society 13(1):5-137. (Read all articles in this special issue on gender and social movements).

Williams, Christine L. 2006. “Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology.’” Social Problems 53(4):454–58.

GENDER, 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.

6 Armstrong, Pat and Armstrong, Hugh. 2005. "Public and Private: Implications for Care Work." Pp. 169-187 in Armstrong, Pat and Armstrong, Hugh, eds. A New Sociology of Work? Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Bird, Chloe E. and Patricia P. Rieker. 1999. "Gender matters: An integrated model for understanding men's and women's health." Social Science and Medicine 48(6):745-755.

Burns, Maree. 2004. "Eating like an Ox: and Dualistic Constructions of Bulimia and Anorexia." Feminism & Psychology 14:269-295.

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 M., and Kathleen F. Slevin. 2001. Gender, Social Inequalities, and Aging. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Denton, Margaret and Vivienne Walters. 1999. “Gender Differences in Structural and Behavioural 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.

Mirowsky, John, and Catherine E. Ross. 1995. "Sex differences in distress: real or artifact?" American Sociological Review 60: 449-468.

Rieker, Patricia P. and Chloe E. Bird. 2005. "Rethinking gender differences in health: Why we need to integrate social and biological perspectives." Journal of Gerontology. 60(Special Issue 2): 40-47.

Rosenfield, Sarah. 1999. “Splitting the Difference: Gender, the Self, and Mental Health.” In C. S. Aneshensel and J. Phelan, eds., The Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health, edited by C. S. Aneshensel and J. Phelan. (pp. 209-24). New York: Kluwer Academic.

Schnittker, Jason. 2007. “Working More and Feeling Better: Women’s Health, Employment, and Family Life, 1974-2004.” American Sociological Review 72(2):221-38.

Silver, Catherine B. 2003. "Gendered Identities in Old Age: Toward (de)Gendering?" Journal of Aging Studies, 17: 379-397.

Simon, Robin 2002. "Revisiting the Relationships among Gender, Marital Status, and Mental Health." The American Journal of Sociology 107(4):1065.

7 SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES

Bernstein, Elizabeth. 2007. Temporarily Yours. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapters 1, 3-4, 7)

Carrillo, Héctor. 2004. “Sexual Migration, Cross-Cultural Sexual Encounters, and Sexual Health.” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 1, no. 3: 58-70.

D'Emilio, John. 1983. “Capitalism and Gay Identity.” Pp. 467-476 in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (Eds.). New York: Routledge.

Ericksen, Julia. 1999. Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century. Harvard: Harvard University Press. (Chapters 1 & 2)

Espiritu, Yen Le. 2001. “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do: Family, Culture and Gender in Filipina American Lives” Signs 26(2): 415-440.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books (Chapters 1 and 9).

Fields, Jessica. 2008. Risky Lessons: Sex and . NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1978. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1. NY: Random House.

Gamson, Joshua and Dawne Moon. 2004. “The Sociology of Sexualities: and Beyond.” Annual Review of Sociology 30:47-64.

Giddens, Anthony. 1992. “Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship.” Pp. 49-64 in The Transformation of Intimacy, ed by Anthony Giddens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Green, Adam Isaiah. 2008. “Erotic : Toward a Sociology of Desire.” Theory and Society 37(6):597–626.

Green, Adam Isaiah. 2008. “The Social Organization of Desire: The Sexual Fields Approach.” 26(1): 25-50.

Hamilton, Laura and Elizabeth A. Armstrong. 2009. “Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options.” Gender & Society. 23:589- 616.

Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2015. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ingraham, Chrys. 1996. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender. In Queer Theory/Sociology, edited by Steven Seidman. Blackwell.

8 Katz, Jonathan Ned. 2007. The Invention of . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapters 1-4)

MacKinnon, Catharine. 1987. “Pleasure under Patriarchy.” In Theories of , edited by James Geer and William O’Donoghue. New York: Plenum.

Martin, Karin A. 2009. “Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk and Strategies with Young Children.” American Sociological Review 74: 190-207.

Preves, Sharon E. 2003. and Identity: The Contested Self. NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5 (4): 631-660.

Rubin, Gayle, 1984. “Thinking Sex.” in Pleasure and Danger, edited by Carole Vance. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Schalet, Amy T. 2000. “Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States of America and the Netherlands.” Body and Society 6(1): 75-105.

Schilt, Kristin. 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 : 'Gender Normals,' Transgender People, and the Maintenance of Heterosexuality." Gender & Society 23:440-464.

Seidman, Steven. 2010. The Social Construction of Sexuality. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton.

Simon, William, and John H. Gagnon. 1987. “Sexual Theory: A Sexual Scripts Approach.” In Theories and Paradigms Of Human Sexuality, edited by James Geer and William O’Donoghue. New York: Plenum.

Stacey, Judith. 2011. Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China. New York, NY: New York University Press. Introduction.

Stein, Arlene, and Ken Plummer. 1996. “I Can’t Even Think Straight: ‘Queer’ Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology.” In Queer Theory/Sociology, edited by Steven Seidman. Blackwell.

Valocchi, Steve. 1999. “The Class-Inflected Nature of Gay Identity.” Social Problems 47: 207-224.

Ward, Jane and Beth Schneider. 2009. "The Reaches of Heteronormativity: An Introduction." Gender & Society 23(4):433-439.

9 Warner, Michael. 1991. "Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet". Social Text 29(4):3–17.

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