Soc 792b Gender Seminar - Web Hosting at UMass Amherst

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by  Joya Misra

SOC 792b: Gender & Society
Fall 2014

Instructor: Joya Misra Email: [email protected], 545-5969
Classroom: Thompson 620 Office Hours: Wed 10-11 am (Machmer W33e)
Class Meetings: Tuesday 4-6:30 pm https://moodle.umass.edu/course/view.php?id=16041

The seminar explores current literature in feminist sociology. Gender is one of the most central
axes of inequality, along with class, race, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, and sexuality.
Gendered analyses of almost every social phenomenon exist, because gender always matters
when we are thinking about the social world. Given time limits, this course will only highlight
ten key areas: feminist theory; masculinities; migration; bodies; work; work & family; families;
violence; crime, law, and punishment; and politics, nationalism & movements. In addition,
these readings are meant to highlight intersectional approaches to gender.

You should leave this course with a good, basic understanding of scholarship on gender and
society, capable of teaching undergraduate courses on gender. This will require reading the
materials assigned for class, posing questions about these topics, and engaging in complex
discussions about the course materials. You will also learn how to write a book review, a blog
entry summarizing gender research for a broader audience, and will submit at least two drafts of
a literature review, proposal, or paper focused on some element of gender and sexuality.

We will mostly focus on recent works by feminist sociologists. In addition to required readings, I
list “recommended works” for you to pursue as interested. Feel free to ask about additional
recommendations in areas you’d like to explore. This course serves as a survey course in gender;
there are more advanced gender courses in sociology (on topics such as gender & family, gender
& work, race, gender, and work, transnational feminist movements, gender & social policy,
sexualities, and so on) that I urge you to seek out if you have not already. In addition, the
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program provides an excellent graduate certificate program
that you should consider. The best feminist research is interdisciplinary; developing intellectual
relationships with scholars and research in many fields will make your scholarship stronger.

Course Requirements

Class Participation: As a seminar, this course is based on the active involvement of all
participants in discussing the topics we cover, including from students who are relatively shy or
are new to the topic. Active participation does not mean dominating conversation, but it does
mean you showing that you are prepared for class, actively listening to your colleagues, and
making comments and asking questions. Because discussion is an integral part of this course, I
want to ensure that the classroom is a “safe place” for frank and open discourse. Although we
will have different viewpoints, I expect all of us to treat one another with respect. Because we
come to the class with different experiences (both real-world and academic), we should be
attentive to maintaining openings in discussion for everyone. If you realize you are not speaking
very much, you should step into the conversation. If you realize you are speaking a lot, you
should step back, and encourage others to engage. If we create the very best, most inclusive
conditions for conversation, our discussions will be richer, deeper, and will teach all of us more.
Asking questions should be a top priority–questions that appear simple may end up being both
difficult and productive to address. Participating in class will make up 25% of your grade.

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Moodle Participation: I expect everyone to complete assigned readings before class. You will
take part in a web-based discussion of the readings by Sunday at 6 pm before the class meets, in
order to give those leading class discussion some time to plan their session. These posts should
be short – somewhere between 3-4 sentences, including at least one question that occurred to
you about the reading or the topic, and that you would like to see us address in class. You can
miss no more than one of these posts with an adverse effect on your grade. Participating on the
web board will make up 10% of the grade. This means that more than 1/3 of the grade reflects
web board and in class discussion – doing the readings and engaging with your classmates will
be critical to doing well in this class.

Leading Discussion: You will also be in charge of leading a discussion of the course material for
one class session during the semester, either alone or with another student. Organizing the class
discussion involves presenting a short (5 -minute) orientation of the required readings for the
week, raising specific questions and issues, and relating the material to previous readings and
class discussions. Your role as discussion leader will not be to “lecture” on the material, but
facilitating a thoughtful and active discussion of these materials. Joint discussion leaders should
meet well in advance of the class session to plan their duties for the session. You should bring to
class a list of no more than five main questions that you plan to address during the session. You
must talk with me at least once before your class session to discuss your plans, and should send
me a draft version of your discussion questions by Monday at 4 pm. The form I use for
evaluating discussion leading appears at the end of this syllabus; organizing class discussion is
worth 15% of the grade.

Short Paper: You will write one book review on one of the books that we read for class. You
should not write the review on a book for which you lead discussion. The book review will be due
on the date that we discuss the book in class. For this assignment, you will need to read the full
book, even if the class only reads sections of the book. In these 750-1000 word essays, you will
briefly describe the major argument of the piece, and then critically evaluate the argument,
noting both its strengths and weaknesses. You may want to read some reviews in
Contemporary Sociology or Gender & Society to give you a sense of the format for a review. The
book review is worth 10% of your final grade.

Blog: You will write one short blog entry, based on an article that we have read for class. The
entry should be between 400-800 words in length, written in non-academic language for
readers with a high school education, and aimed at popularizing the take-away point from a
research study. You should include at least one visual with your blog entry, such as a graph,
chart or free-for-use pictures. Your entry should include a short, engaging title. The blog entry is
worth 10% of your final grade.

Final Paper: You will also write a course paper that sociologically examines some aspect of
gender. In this long paper, you should apply a theoretical perspective to a substantive area that
interests you. The paper can take a variety of forms–an in-depth review of a certain theoretical
or substantive tradition, a research proposal, or a piece of original research. The paper should
draw on at least 12 sociological peer-reviewed sources, and should be around 12-20 pages in
length. Final paper topics should be discussed with me and a rough outline and a list of sources
are due by October 14. Rough drafts of the paper are due November 18; no grades will be
given these drafts, but 10% will be deducted from the final if a rough draft is not submitted. The
final version of the paper is due December 15 and is worth 30% of your final grade. Grades are
based on the following criteria:

The grading scale is A=>93; A-=90-93; B+=87-90; B=83-87; B-=80-83, C+=77-80, C=<77.
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Class Participation 25%
Web Participation 10%
Organizing class discussion 15%
Book Review 10%
Blog 10%
Final paper 30%

Required Readings:

All books are available at Amherst Books, 8 Main Street, and are also on two-hour/overnight
reserve in the W.E.B. DuBois Library. Articles/chapters are available on the website.

Eileen Otis. 2012. Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in
China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Sarah Damaske. 2011. For the Family: How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work. New
York: Oxford.
Mignon Moore. 2011. Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among
Black Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cecilia Menjívar. 2011. Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala. Berkeley:
University of California Press. (available as an e-book)

Class Schedule

September 2: Doing Gender

• Candace West and Don Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender & Society. 1: 125-151.
• Karen Pyke and Denise L. Johnson. 2003. “Asian American Women and Racialized
Femininities: ‘Doing’ Gender Across Racialized Worlds.” Gender & Society. 17(1). 33-53.
• Nikki Jones. 2009. “I Was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures: Gender,
Difference and the Inner-City Girl.” Gender and Society. 23: 89-93.
• Valerie Jenness and Sarah Fenstermaker. 2014. “Agnes Goes to Prison: Gender Authenticity,
Transgender Inmates in Prisons for Men, and Pursuit of ‘The Real Deal.’” Gender & Society,
28(1): 5-31.
• Betsy Lucal. 1999. “What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a
Dichotomous Gender System.” Gender & Society 13(6): 781-797.

Recommended:
Raewyn Connell. 2009. “Accountable Conduct: ‘Doing Gender’ in Transsexual and Political Retrospect.” Gender &
Society. 23: 104-111.
Francine Deutsch. 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender & Society. 21: 106-127.
Jamison Green. 2003. Becoming a Visible Man. Nashville: Vanderbilty U Press.
Jocelyn A. Hollander. 2013. “‘I Demand More of People’: Accountability, Interaction, and Gender Change.” Gender &
Society 27(1): 5-29.
Nancy C. Jurik and Cynthia Siemsen. 2009. “Doing Gender” as Canon or Agenda: A Symposium on West and
Zimmerman. Gender & Society. 23: 72-75.
James W. Messerschmidt. 2009. “Doing Gender”: The Impact and Future of a Salient Sociological Concept. Gender &
Society. 23: 85-88
Barbara J. Risman. 2009. “From Doing To Undoing: Gender as We Know It.” Gender & Society. 23: 81-84.
Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: ‘Gender Normals,’
Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality.” Gender & Society. 23: 440-464.
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. 2009. “The Figure of the Transwoman of Color Through the Lens of “Doing Gender.” 23: 99-
103.
Candace West and Don Zimmerman. 2009. “Accounting for Doing Gender.” Gender & Society. 23: 112-122
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September 9: Feminist Theory

• Patricia Hill Collins. 1986. “Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological
Significance of Black Feminist Thought.” Social Problems.
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2003. “‘Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity
through Anticapitalist Struggles.” Signs. 28(2): 499-535.
• Robert W. Connell, and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. “Hegemonic masculinity
rethinking the concept.” Gender & Society. 19(6): 829-859.
• Joan Acker. 2006. “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Race, and Class in Organizations.” Gender
& Society. 20: 441-464.
• Stevi Jackson. 2006. “Gender, Sexuality and Heterosexuality: The Complexity (and Limits)
of Heteronormativity.” Feminist Theory. 7(1): 105-121.

Recommended:
Judith Butler. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge.
Patricia Hill Collins. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.
New York: Routledge.
Patricia Hill Collins. 2005. Black Sexual Politics. New York: Routledge.
R. W. Connell. 2005. Masculinities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. .
Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess. 1999. Revisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Ivy Ken. 2008. “Beyond the Intersection: A New Culinary Metaphor for Race‐Class‐Gender Studies.” Sociological
Theory. 26(2): 152-172.
Judith Lorber. 2010. Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics. New York: Oxford.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2003. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham,
NC: Duke University Press.
Uma Narayan. 1997. Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism. New York: Routledge.
Cecilia Ridgeway. 2011. Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. NY: Oxford.
Mimi Schippers. 2007. “Recovering the Feminine Other: Femininity, Masculinity, and Gender Hegemony.” Theory
and Society 36(1): 85-102.
Stephen Valocchi. 2005. “Not yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and
Sexuality.” Gender & Society 19(6): 750-770.

September 16: Masculinities

• Tristan Bridges. 2014. “A Very ‘Gay’ Straight: Hybrid Masculinities, Sexual Aesthetics, and
the Changing Relationship between Masculinity and Homophobia.” Gender & Society. 28:
58-82.
• Eric Anderson. 2011. “Updating the Outcome: Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Coming
Out in Educationally Based Sports Teams.” Gender & Society 25(2): 250-268.
• Maxine Craig. 2014. “Sex or ‘Just Dancing.’” Pp. 105-132 in Sorry, I Don’t Dance: Why Men
Refuse to Move. New York: Oxford.
• Marysol Asencio. 2011. “ “‘Locas,’ Respect, and Masculinity: Gender Conformity in Migrant
Puerto Rican Gay Masculinities.” Gender & Society 25(3): 335-354.

Recommended Readings:
Tristan Bridges. 2010. “Men Just Weren’t Made to Do This: Performances of Drag at ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’
Marches.” Gender & Society. 24: 5-30.
Peter Hennen. 2008. Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine. Chicago: U of
Chicago Press.
Victor Agadjanian. 2002. Men’s Talk About ‘Women’s Matters’: Gender, Communication, and Contraception in
Urban Mozambique. Gender & Society. Vol. 16, No. 2: 194 – 215.
Eric Anderson. 2002. Openly gay athletes: Contesting hegemonic masculinity in a homophobic environment. Gender
& Society 16(6): 860-877.
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Youngjoo Cha and Sarah Thébaud. 2009. Labor Markets, Breadwinning, and Beliefs: How Economic Context Shapes
Men’s Gender Ideology. Gender & Society. Vol. 23, No. 2: 215 – 243.
Noelle Chesley. 2011. Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social
Change. Gender & Society. Vol. 25, No. 5: 642 – 664.
Peter Hennen. 2005. Bear Bodies, Bear Masculinity: Recuperation, Resistance, or Retreat? Gender & Society 19(1):
25-43.
Paul Horton and Helle Rydstrom. 2011. “Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam: Privileges, Pleasures,
and Protests.” Men and Masculinities. 14(5): 542-62.
Emily W. Kane. 2006. ‘No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!’: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender
Nonconformity. Gender & Society. Vol. 20, No. 2: 149 – 176.
Robinson, Christine M., Sue E. Spivey. 2007. The politics of masculinity and the ex-gay movement. Gender & Society
21(5): 650-675.Vol. 25, No. 2: 176 – 196.
CJ Pascoe. 2007. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press.
Vrushali Patil. 2009. “Contending Masculinities: The Gendered (Re) negotiation of Colonial Hierarchy in the United
Nations Debates on Decolonization.” Theory and Society. 38(2): 195-215.
Maurice Kwong-Lai Poon and Peter Trung-Thu Ho. 2008. "Negotiating Social Stigma Among Gay Asian Men."
Sexualities 11(1-2):245-68.
Hernan Ramirez. 2010. "Masculinity in the Workplace: The Case of Mexican Immigrant Gardeners." Men and
Masculinities 14(1):97-116.
Kristen Schilt. 2006. “Just One of the Guys? How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work.” Gender & Society. 20:
465-90.
Nicholas Solebello, Sinikka Elliott. 2011. “We want them to be as heterosexual as possible”: Fathers talk about their
teen children’s sexuality. Gender & Society 25(3): 293-315.
Kristen W. Springer. 2010. Economic Dependence in Marriage and Husbands’ Midlife Health: Testing Three Possible
Mechanisms. Gender & Society. Vol. 24, No. 3: 378 – 401.

September 23: Migration & Globalization

• Amrita Pande. 2012. “From ‘Balcony Talk’ and ‘Practical Prayers’ to Illegal Collectives:
Migrant Domestic Workers and Meso-Level Resistances in Lebanon.” Gender & Society.
26(3): 382-405.
• Hae Yeon Choo. 2013. “The Cost of Rights: Migrant Women, Feminist Advocacy, and
Gendered Morality in South Korea." Gender & Society 27(4): 445-468.
• Veronica Montes. 2013. “The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Masculinity:
Guatemalan Migrant Men, Transnational Migration, and Family Relations.” Gender &
Society. 27(4): 469-490.
• Monisha Das Gupta. 2014. “‘Don’t Deport Our Daddies’: Gendering State Deportation
Practices and Immigrant Organizing.” Gender & Society. 28(1): 83-109.

Recommended:
Katie Acosta. 2008. “Lesbianas in the Borderlands: Shifting Identities and Imagined Communities.” Gender &
Society. 22: 639-659.
Elizabeth M. Aranda. 2003. “Global Care Work and Gendered Constraints: The Case of Puerto Rican Transmigrants.”
Gender & Society. 17(4): 609-626.
Lourdes Benería, Carmen Diana Deere, and Naila Kabeer. 2012. "Gender and International Migration: Globalization,
Development, and Governance." Feminist Economics 18.2 (2012): 1-33.
Deborah A. Boehm. 2012. Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality Among Transnational Mexicans.
New York: NYU Press.
Chad Broughton. 2008. “Migration as Engendered Practice: Mexican Men, Migration, and Northward Migration.”
Gender & Society. 22: 568-589.
Lionel Cantu. 20o9. The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men. NY: NYU Press.
Christine B.N. Chin. 2013. Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City. NY: Oxford.
Manisha Desai. 2009. Gender and the Politics of Possibilities. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Chenoa A. Flippen. 2014. “Intersectionality at Work: Determinants of Labor Supply among Immigrant Latinas.”
Gender & Society. 28(3): 404-434.
Gloria Gonzales-Lopez. 2005. Erotic Journeys: Mexican Americans and their Sex Lives. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
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Judith Halberstam. 1998. Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Presss.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of
Affluence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
Pei Chia Lan. 2006. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press.
Martin F. Manalansan, 2006. “Queer intersections: Sexuality and gender in migration studies.” International
Migration Review 40(1): 224-249.
Emilio A. Parrado and Chenoa A. Flippen. 2005. “Migration and Gender among Mexican Women.” 70(4): 606-632.
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Rhacel Salazar Parrenãs. 2011. Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. Palo Alto: Stanford
University Press.
Yinni Peng and Odalia M.H. Wong. 2013. “Diversified Transnational Mothering via Telecommunication: Intensive,
Collaborative, and Passive.” Gender & Society. 27(4) 491-513.
Leah Schmalzbauer. 2009. “Gender on a New Frontier: Mexican Migration in the Rural Mountain West.” Gender &
Society. 23(6): 747-767.
Nira Yuval-David, Floya Anthias, and Eleonore Kofman. 2005. “Secure Borders and Sagfe Haven and the Gendered
Politics of Belonging.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 28(3): 513-535.

September 30: Bodies

• Eileen Otis. 2012. Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of
Inequality in China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

Recommended:

Oluwakemi M. Balagun. 2012. “Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity & Embodied Nationalism in
Nigerian Beauty Pageants.” Gender & Society. 26(3): 357-381.
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant. 2003. “Strong and Large Black Women? Exploring Relationships between Deviant
Womanhood and Weight.” Gender & Society. 17(1): 111-121.
Kristen Barber. 2008. “The Well-Coiffed Man: Class, Race, and Heterosexual Masculinity in a Hair Salon.” Gender &
Society. 22: 455-476.
Julie Bettie. 2002. Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Ginetta Candelario. 2007. Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops.
Durham, NC: Duke.
Sara Crawley, Lara Foley, and Constance Shehan. 2007. Gendering Bodies. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Sara Crawley. 2008. “The Clothes Make the Trans: Region and Geography in Experiences of the Body.” Journal of
Lesbian Studies. 12(4): 365-379.
Erynn de Masi Casanova. 2004. “‘No Ugly Women’: Concepts of Race and Beauty among Adolescent Women in
Ecuador.” Gender & Society 18(3): 287-303.
Raine Dozier. 2005. “Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World.” Gender & Society. 19(3): 297-
316.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn. 2008. “Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of
Skin Lighteners.” Gender & Society. 22: 281-302.
Gili Hammer. 2012. “Blind Women’s Appearance Management: Negotiating Normalcy between Discipline and
Pleasure.” Gender & Society. 26(3): 406-43.
Kimberly Kay Hoang. 2014. “Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World
Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry.” (August).
Amira Jamarkani. 2010. Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly
Dancing in the United States. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Patricia Richard. 2007. “Bravas, Permitidas, Obsoletas: Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media.” Gender &
Society. 21: 553-578.
Douglas Schrock, Lori Reid, and Emily M. Boyd. 2005. “Transsexuals’ Embodiment of Womanhood.” Gender &
Society. 19(3) 317-335.
Eve Shapiro. 2007. “Drag Kinging and the Transformation of Gender Identities.” Gender & Society. 21: 250-71.

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October 7: Work

• Leslie Salzinger. 2000. "Manufacturing Sexual Subjects: Harassment, Desire and Discipline
on a Maquiladora Shopfloor." Ethnography 1(1): 67-92.
• Ashley Mears. “Discipline of the Catwalk: Gender, Power and Uncertainty in Fashion
Modeling.” Ethnography 9.4 (2008): 429-456.
• Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell. 2007. “Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make
Gender Trouble?” Gender, Work & Organization 14(6): 596-618.
• Adia Harvey Wingfield. 2009. “Racializing the Glass Escalator Reconsidering Men's
Experiences with Women's Work.” Gender & Society. 23(1): 5-26.

Recommended Readings:
Carolina Bank-Muñoz. 2008. Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the
United States. Ithaca: Cornell.
Elizabeth Bernstein. 2007. Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex. Chicago: U of
Chicago Press.
Youngjoo Cha. 2013. “Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Segregation in Occupations.” Gender & Society 27(2):
158-184.
Mignon Duffy. 2010. Making Care Count. New York: Rutgers.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Anne E. Lincoln, and Cassandra Tansey. 2012. “Gender Segregation in Elite Academic
Science.” Gender & Society 26(5): 693-717.
Paula England. 2010. “The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled.” Gender & Society. 24: 149-166.
Gladys Garcia-Lopez. 2008. “Nunca Te Toman En Cuenta: The Challenges of Inclusion and Strategies for Success of
Chicana Attorneys.” Gender & Society. 22: 590-612.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn. 2002. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Amy Hanser. 2005. “The Gendered Rice Bowl: The Sexual Politics of Service Work in Urban China.” Gender &
Society. 19(5): 581-600.
Miliann Kang. 2010. The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
Janice Fanning Madden. 2012. Performance-Support Bias And The Gender Pay Gap Among Stockbrokers. Gender &
Society 26(3): 488-518.
Ashley Mears. 2011. Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Amrita Pande. 2010. “Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect Mother-Worker.” Signs. 35(4): 969-
992.
Leslie Salzinger. 2003. Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories. Berkeley: University of
California Press (2003).
Caery Sargent. 2009. “Playing, Shopping, and Working as Rock Musicians: Masculinities in Organizations” Gender &
Society. 23: 665-687.
Kristen Schilt. 2006. “Just One of the Guys? How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work.” Gender & Society. 20:
465-90.
Darcie Vandergrift. 2008. “ ‘This Isn’t Paradise, I Work Here’: Global Restructuring, the Tourism Industry, and
Women Workers in Caribbean Costa Rica.” Gender & Society. 22: 778-798.
Christine Williams. 2013. “The Glass Escalator Revisiting: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times.” Gender & Society.
27(5): 609-629.

October 14: NO CLASS Monday Schedule – Outline & List of 10-12 Sources for
Final Paper DUE

October 21: Family & Work

• Sarah Damaske. 2011. For the Family: How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work. New
York: Oxford.

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Recommended:
• Mary Blair-Loy. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career & Family among Women Executives. Cambridge: Harvard.
• Michelle Budig and Melissa Hodges. 2013. “Differences in Disadvantage: Variation in the Motherhood Penalty
across White Women’s Earnings Distribution.” American Sociological Review. 75(5): 70-705-728.
• Michelle Budig. 2006. “Gender, Self-Employment, and Earnings: the Interlocking Structures of Family and
Professional Status.” Gender & Society. 20(6): 725-753.
• Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Bernard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?”
American Journal of Sociology. 112(5): 1297-338.
• Noelle Chesley. 2011. Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social
Change. Gender & Society 25(5): 642-664.
• Marlese Durr and Shirley Hill. 2006. Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African-Americans. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield.
• Kathleen Gerson. 2009. The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and
Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Melissa J. Hodges and Michelle J. Budig. 2010. “Who Gets the Daddy Bonus? Organizational Hegemonic
Masculinity and the Impact of Fatherhood on Earnings.” Gender & Society. 24(6): 717-745.
• Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson. 2004.The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
• Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2011. “Breadwinning Wives and ‘Left-Behind’ Husbands: Men and
Masculinities in the Vietnamese Transnational Family.” Gender & Society 25(6): 717-739.
• Barbara Hobson (Ed.). 2013. Worklife Balance: The Agency and Capabilities Gap. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Pei-Chia Lan. 2003. “Maid Or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor.” Gender
& Society 17(2): 187-208.
• Kumiko Nemoto. 2008. “Postponed Marriage: Exploring Women’s Views of Matrimony and Work in Japan.”
Gender & Society. 22: 219-37.
• Pamela Stone. 2007. Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
• Gretchen Webber and Christine Williams. 2008. “Mothers in ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Part Time Jobs.” Gender &
Society. 22: 752-77.

October 28: Families & Relationships

• Moore, Mignon. 2011. Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood
among Black Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recommended:
• Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey. 2010. “How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?” Journal of Marriage and
Family. 7(2):3-22.
• Linda Blum. 2007. “Mother-Blame in the Prozac Nation: Raising Kids with Invisible Disabilities.” 21(2): 202-
226.
• Kathleen Bogle. 2008. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus. NY: NYU Press.
• Sean Cahill, Juan Battle, and Doug Meyer. 2013. “Partnering, Parenting, and Policy: Family Issues Affecting
Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people.” Race and Society 6(2): 85-98.
• Stephanie Coontz. 2005. Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, Or How Love Conquered
Marriage. New York: Viking.
• Lyn Craig. 2006. “Does Father Care Mean Father Share?: A Comparison of How Mothers and Fathers in Intact
Families Spend Time with Children.” 20(2): 259-281.
• Carmen Diana Deere and Jennifer Twyman. 2012. “Asset Ownership and Egalitarian Decision Making in Dual-
Headed Households in Ecuador.” Review of Radical Political Economics. 44(3): 313-320.
• Joanna Dreby. 2006. “Honor and Virtue: Mexican Parenting in the Transnational Context.” 20(1): 32-59
• Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before
Marriage. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Lorena Garcia. 2012. Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity. New York: NYU Press.
• Kathleen Hull. 2006. Same Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. NY: Cambridge.
• Emily W Kane. 2006. “‘No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!’ Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender
Nonconformity.” Gender & Society 20: 149-176. & Society. 20(3): 354-81.
• Katrina Kimport. 2014. Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States. Newark, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
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• Karin Martin. 2005. “William wants a Doll. Can He Have One? Feminists, Child Care Advisors, and Gender-
Neutral Child Rearing.” Gender & Society. 19(4): 456-479.
• Nancy Mezey. 2009. New Choices, New Families: How Lesbians Decide About Motherhood. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins U Press.
• C. Shawn McGuffey. 2008. “‘Saving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race, and Parental Responses
to Male Child Sexual Abuse.” Social Problems. 55(2): 216-237.
• Margaret Nelson. 2010. Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times. New York: NYU Press.
• Carla A. Pfeffer. 2012. “Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism negotiating structure and agency in
transgender families.” Gender & Society 26(4): 574-602.
• Jennifer Reich. 2005. Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System. New York: Routledge.
• Carla Shows and Naomi Gerstel. 2009. “Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and
Emergency Medical Technicians.” Gender & Society. 23(2): 161-187.
• Judith Stacey. 2005. “The Families of Man: Gay Male Intimacy and Kinship in a Global Metropolis.” Signs.
30(3): 1911-1935.
• Glenda Wall and Stephanie Arnold. 2007. “How Involved is Involved Fathering? An Exploration of the
Contemporary Culture of Fatherhood.” Gender & Society. 21: 508-27.
• Michelle Wolkomir. 2009. “Making Heteronormative Reconciliations: The Story of Romantic Love, Sexuality,
and Gender in Mixed-Orientation Marriages.” Gender & Society. 23: 494-519.

November 4: Violence

• Cecilia Menjívar. 2011. Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala. Berkeley:
University of California Press.

Recommended:
Bina Agarwal and Pradeep Panda. 2007. “Toward Freedom From Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious.” Journal of Human
Development. 8(3): 359-388.
Kristin L. Anderson. 2007. “Who Gets Out? Gender as Structure and the Dissolution of Violent Heterosexual
Relationships.” Gender & Society. 21(2): 173-201.
Lisa Brush. 2011. Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy. New York: Oxford.
Alesha Durfee. 2011. “I’m Not a Victim, She’s An Abuser”: Masculinity, Victimization and Protection Orders. Gender
& Society. 25(3): 316-334.
Wenona Mary Giles, and Jennifer Hyndman, Eds. 2004. Sites of violence: Gender and conflict zones. Berkeley: Univ
of California Press.
Michael P. Johnson. 2006. “Conflict and Control: Gender Symmetry and Asymmetry in Domestic Violence.” Violence
Against Women 12(11): 1003-1018.
Michael P. Johnson. 2005. “Domestic Violence: It's Not about Gender—or Is It?.” Journal of Marriage and Family
67(5): 1126-1130.
Nikki Jones. 2009. Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-city Violence. New York: Rutgers
University Press.
Derek A Kreager. 2007. "Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence."
American Sociological Review 72(5): 705-724.
Tsun-Yin Luo. 2000. “‘Marrying My Rapist?!’: The Cultural Trauma among Chinese Rape Survivors.” Gender &
Society. 14(4): 581-597.
James W. Messerschmidt. 2004. Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence. Boston: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.
Doug Meyer. 2012. “An Intersectional Analysis of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People’s
Evaluations of Anti-Queer Violence." Gender & Society 26(6): 849-873.
Marian Meyers. 2004. "African American Women and Violence: Gender, Race, and Class in the News." Critical
Studies in Media Communication 21.2 (2004): 95-118.
Rekha Mirchandani. 2006. “‘Hitting is Not Manly:’ Domestic Violence Court and the Re-Imagination of the
Patriarchal State.” Gender & Society. 20(6): 781-804.
Douglas P. Schrock, and Irene Padavic. 2007. “Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in a Batterer Intervention
Program.” Gender & Society. 21(5): 625-649.
Natalie J. Sokoloff, and Christina Pratt, Eds. 2005. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class,
Gender, and Culture. New York: Rutgers University Press.
Michelle Tellez. 2008. “Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S./Mexico Border.”
Gender & Society 22(5): 545-567.
Jennifer K. Wesely, Emily Gaarder. 2004. The Gendered “Nature” of the Urban Outdoors: Women Negotiating Fear
of Violence. Gender & Society. 18(5): 645-663.
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Shannon E. Wyss. 2004. "‘This Was my Hell’: the Violence Experienced by Gender Non‐Conforming Youth in US
High Schools." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 17(5): 709-730

NO CLASS NOV 11: Veteran’s Day

November 12 (Tuesday Schedule): Crime, Law, and Punishment

• M. Nandi. 2002. “Re/constructing black masculinity in prison.” The Journal of Men's
Studies. 11(1): 91-107.
• Yvonne Jewkes. "Men Behind Bars “Doing” Masculinity as an Adaptation to Imprisonment."
Men and Masculinities 8(1): 44-63.
• Anna Curtis. 2014. “‘You Have to Cut it off at the Knee’: Dangerous Masculinity and Security
inside a Men's Prison” Men and Masculinities. 17(2): 120-146.
• Laura S. Abrams, Ben Anderson-Nathe, and Jemel Aguilar. 2008. "Constructing
Masculinities in Juvenile Corrections." Men and Masculinities 11(1): 22-41.

Recommended:
Brittnie Aiello. 2013. “‘We Incarcerate to Set Free: Negotiating Punishment and Rehabilitation in Jail.” Journal of
Qualitative Criminology and Criminal Justice. 1(2): 292-316.
Rod Brunson and Jody Miller. 2006. “Gender, Race, and Urban Policing.” Gender & Society. 20: 531-552.
Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin. 2008. Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence, and Hype. NY: Routledge.
Jeanne Flavin. 2001. “Of Punishment and Parenthood: Family-Based Social Control and the Sentencing of Black Drug
Offenders.” Gender & Society 15(4): 611-633.
Lynne Haney. 2010. Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
Regina Kunzel. 2008. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern America. Chicago: U of Chicago
Press.
Jodie Michelle Lawston. 2009. “‘We’re All Sisters’: Bridging and Legitimacy in the Women’s Antiprison Movement.”
Gender & Society. 23: 639-664.
Annulla Linders and Alana Van Gundy-Yoder. 2008. “Gall, Gallantry, and the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the
Construction of Gender, 1840-1920.” Gender & Society. 22: 324-348.
Allison McKim. 2008. “Getting Gut Level: Punishment, Gender, and Therpeutic Governance.” Gender & Society. 22:
303-323.
Rebecca Reviere. 2006. Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in US Prisons. Boulder, CO: Rienner.
Laurie Schaffner. 2006. Girls in Trouble with the Law. Piscatawy, NJ; Rutgers University Press.
Tyson Smith and Michael Kimmel. 2005. “The Hidden Discourse of Masculinity in Gender Discrimination Law.”
Signs. 30(3): 1827-1849.
Julia Sudbury, 2002. “Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex. “ Feminist
Review. 70-57-74.
Victor Rios. 2011. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys . New York: New York University Press.
Jessica J.B. Wyse. 2013. “Rehabilitating Criminal Selves: Gendered Strategies in Community Corrections.” Gender &
Society 27 (2): 231-255.

November 18 Politics, Nationalism, and Social Movements

• H.J. Kim-Puri. 2005. Conceptualizing gender-sexuality-state-nation: an introduction.
Gender & Society 19(2): 137-159.
• Deniz Kandiyoti. 2004. “Identity and its Discontents.” WLUML DOSSIER 26: 45-58.
• Saba Mahmood. 2001. “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some
Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic revival.” Cultural Anthropology 16.2 (2001): 202-236.
• Rinaldo, Rachel. 2008. “Envisioning the nation: Women Activists, Religion and the Public
Sphere in Indonesia.” Social Forces 86(4): 1781-1804.

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