1 Sociology of Gender Theories of Gender Foundational and Early

Sociology of Gender

Theories of Gender

Foundational and Early Approaches Acker, Joan. 1988. “Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution.” Signs 13(3): 473-497 Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1996. “Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism.” Feminist Studies, 22: 321-31. Bem, Sandra 1981. “Gender Schema Theory: A Cognitive Account of Sex Typing.” Psychological Review. 88:354-364. Blumberg, Rae L. 1984. “A General Theory of Gender Stratification.” Sociological Theory 2:23– 101. Bourdieu, Pierre. 2001. Masculine Domination. Stanford University Press. skim Brownmiller, Susan. 1975. Againts Our Will Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster. Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge. OR Butler, Judith. 2004. Undoing Gender. Routledge. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2001. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. Collins, Randall, Janet Chafetz, Rae Blumberg, Scott Coltrane, and Jonathan Turner. 1993. “Toward an Integrated Theory of Gender Stratification.” Sociological Perspectives 36(3):185-216 de Beauvoir, Simone (1974). The Second Sex. New York: Penguin. (MUST) Dworkin, Andrea. 1981. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Perigee Books. Engels, Friedrich. “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.” In The Marx- Engels Reader, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978. Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Ch. 1, 2. Haraway, Sandra. 1988. “Situated Knowledge: The Sciences Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies. 14:575-599. Hartsock, Nancy. 1983. “The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism.” In Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism. Longmann Hartmann, Heidi, 1981. “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union.” In Women and Revolution, ed. by Lydia Sargent. South End Press. Lorber, Judith. 1993. “Believing is seeing: Biology as ideology.” Gender & Society 7: 568-81. (MUST) MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory.” Signs 7(3):515-544. Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social Institution.” Social Forces 82:1249–73. (MUST) McIntosh, Peggy. 1993. “White Privilege and Male Privilege.” Pp. 30-38 in Gender Basics. Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs 5 (Summer 1980): 631-60.

Smith, Dorothy E. 1987. “Women’s Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology.” Pp. 84-96 in Feminism & Methodology, Sandra Harding (ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers Press. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

Subfields and Empirical Literatures

Family/Work/Carework Acker, Joan. 1990. "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations." Gender & Society 4:139-58. Brown, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003. “The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market” Annual Review of Sociology. 29:487-513. Correll, Shelley, Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there a motherhood penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1297-1338. England, Paula. 2005. “Emerging Theories of Care Work,” Annual Review of Sociology, 31: 381-99. England, Paula. 2005. “Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: The Role of Motherhood and Segregation. Social Politics. 12, 2: 264-88. Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs 18 (autumn): 1-43. Hochschild, Arlie. 1997. The Time Bind. New York: Metropolitan. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic. skim Reskin, Barbara F. 2000. “The Proximate Causes of Employment Discrimination.” Contemporary Sociology, 29, 2 (March): 319-328. Williams, Christine. 1992. “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the Female Professions. Social Problems 39:253-267.

Intersectionality / Women of Color Feminisms / Race and Gender Acker, Joan. 1988. "Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution." Signs, 13:473-87 Bettie, Julie. 2003. Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. Routledge. Choo, Hae Yeon and Myra Marx Ferree, 2010. “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities.” Sociological Theory 28, 2: 129-149. Frankenberg, Ruth. 1993. White women, race matters: the social construction of whiteness. U of Minnesota Press. Chapters 1, 6 and 7. Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1999. “The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race.” In Revisioning Gender, ed by Ferree, M.M., Lorber, J., and Hess, B.B. (pp 3-35). Sage. hooks, bell. 1981. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Cambridge, MA: South End Press (MUST) King, Deborah K. “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1988, vol. 14, no. 1.

McCall, Leslie. 2005. “The Complexity of Intersectionality.” Signs 30, 3: 1771-1800 (MUST) McIntosh, Peggy. 1993. “White Privilege and Male Privilege.” Pp. 30-38 in Gender Basics. Anne Minas (Ed.). Belmont, California: Wadsworth.

Social Construction, Postmodernism, and Social Psychological Burke, Peter, Jan Stets, and Christine Cerven. 2007. “Gender, Legitimation, and Identity Verification in Groups.” Social Psychology Quarterly 70:27-42 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. ’Doing Gender’ as Canon or Agenda: A Symposium on West and Zimmerman.” Gender & Society 23(1): 72-122. Martin, Karin A. 1998. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools.” American Sociological Review 63, 4: 494-511 Messner, Michael. 2002. “Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender. Gender&Society. 14:765-784. Ridgeway, Cecilia and Shelley J. Correll . 2004. “Unpacking the Gender System: A Theoretical Perspective on Gender Beliefs and Social Relations.” Gender & Society , Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 510-531. Ridgeway, Cecilia. 2009. “Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations.” Gender & Society 23(2):145-160. Risman, Barbara and Myra Marx Feree. 1995. “Making Gender Visible” American Sociological Review 60:775-782. Thorne, Barrie, 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers West, Candace, and Sarah Fenstermaker. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender and Society 9(1): 8- 37

Globalization, Post Colonial and Transnational Feminism Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2003. Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. University of California Press. Howard, Judith and Hollander, Jocelyn (1997). Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Hunt, Nancy Rose, et al. Gendered Colonialisms in African History, Blackwell, 1997 (MUST) Mohanty, Chandra, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres, eds. 1991. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Indiana University Press. Stoler, Ann L. "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Empires," American Ethnologist 16 (1992) (MUST)

Masculinities Pascoe, C.J. 2007. Dude, You’re a Fag. University of California Press. Connell, R.W., and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept.” Gender & Society 19: 829-59.

Sexuality Foucault, Michel. 1980. The History of Sexuality. Vol. 1. (skim) Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs 5: 631- 660.

Gendered Bodies Jackman, Mary R. 1996. The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (MUST) Deutsch, Francine. 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender & Society 21, 1: 106-127. Smith, Dorothy E. 2009. “Categories Are Not Enough.” Gender & Society 23, 1: 76-80 Risman, Barbara J. 2009. “From Doing to Undoing: Gender as We Know It.” Gender & Society 23, 1 (Feb): 81-84.