Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Gender reckonings : new social theory and research / edited by James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewynn Connell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York New York University Press 2018Description: vii, 369 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781479809349
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3 MES.G
Summary: Contents Introduction: the editors Points of departure : gender &​ power and its sequels "Theories don't grow on trees" : contextualizing gender knowledge /​ Myra Marx Ferree Hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and "new" masculinities /​ James W. Messerschmidt and Michael A. Messner From object to subject : situating transgender lives in sociology /​ Kristen Schilt The larger scope of gender analysis Postcoloniality and the sociology of gender /​ Raka Ray Race, indigeneity, and gender : lessons for global feminism /​ Mara Viveros Vigoya Categories, structures, and intersectional theory /​ Joya Misra Four dimensions of relationship, struggle, and change Why "heteronormativity" is not enough : a feminist sociological perspective on heterosexuality /​ Stevi Jackson Gender inequality and feminism in the new economy /​ Christine L. Williams and Megan Tobias Neely Gender politics in academia in the neoliberal age /​ Barbara Poggio The holy grail of organizational change : toward gender equality at work /​ Yvonne Benschop and Marieke van den Brink Dynamics of masculinities Concerning tradition in studies on men and masculinities in ex-colonies /​ Kopano Ratele Rethinking patriarchy through unpatriarchal male desires /​ Gul Ozyegin On the elasticity of gender hegemony : why hybrid masculinities fail to undermine gender and sexual inequality /​ Tristan Bridges and C. J. Pascoe Agendas for theory Limitations of the neoliberal turn in gender theory : (re)turning to gender as a social structure /​ Barbara J. Risman, Kristen Myers, and Ray Sin Paradoxes of gender redux : multiple genders and the persistence of the binary /​ Judith Lorber The monogamous couple, gender hegemony, and polyamory /​ Mimi Schippers Conclusion: theory work, or reckoning with gender /​ Raewyn Connell About the contributors Index Notes.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Introduction: the editors
Points of departure : gender &​ power and its sequels
"Theories don't grow on trees" : contextualizing gender knowledge /​ Myra Marx Ferree
Hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and "new" masculinities /​ James W. Messerschmidt and Michael A. Messner
From object to subject : situating transgender lives in sociology /​ Kristen Schilt
The larger scope of gender analysis
Postcoloniality and the sociology of gender /​ Raka Ray
Race, indigeneity, and gender : lessons for global feminism /​ Mara Viveros Vigoya
Categories, structures, and intersectional theory /​ Joya Misra
Four dimensions of relationship, struggle, and change
Why "heteronormativity" is not enough : a feminist sociological perspective on heterosexuality /​ Stevi Jackson
Gender inequality and feminism in the new economy /​ Christine L. Williams and Megan Tobias Neely
Gender politics in academia in the neoliberal age /​ Barbara Poggio
The holy grail of organizational change : toward gender equality at work /​ Yvonne Benschop and Marieke van den Brink
Dynamics of masculinities
Concerning tradition in studies on men and masculinities in ex-colonies /​ Kopano Ratele
Rethinking patriarchy through unpatriarchal male desires /​ Gul Ozyegin
On the elasticity of gender hegemony : why hybrid masculinities fail to undermine gender and sexual inequality /​ Tristan Bridges and C. J. Pascoe
Agendas for theory
Limitations of the neoliberal turn in gender theory : (re)turning to gender as a social structure /​ Barbara J. Risman, Kristen Myers, and Ray Sin
Paradoxes of gender redux : multiple genders and the persistence of the binary /​ Judith Lorber
The monogamous couple, gender hegemony, and polyamory /​ Mimi Schippers
Conclusion: theory work, or reckoning with gender /​ Raewyn Connell
About the contributors
Index
Notes.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.