Table Of ContentPreface Part One The Process of Defining Gender Readings Terms and Concepts Alternative Approaches to Understanding Gender/Sex Victoria DeFrancisco and Catherine Palczewski Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology Judith Lorber Part Two The Process of Becoming Gendered Readings Terms and Concepts Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed? Kate Haas Skating Femininity: Gender Maneuvering in Women's Roller Derby Nancy J. Finley Grieving Gender Trans-Identitites, Transition, and Ambiguous Loss Kristin Norwood Part Three The Process of Communicating Gender Readings Terms and Concepts Gendered Verbal Communication Julia T. Wood My Life as a Man Elizabeth Gilbert Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience Robin Boylorn Part Four The Process of Examining Gendered Violence Readings Terms and Concepts Punking and Bullying: Strategies in Middle School, High School, and Beyond Debby A. Phillips Monsters and Victims: Male Felons' Accounts of Intimate Partner Violence Julia T. Wood Excavating Gender in Women's Early Claims to Political Asylum in the United States Sara L. McKinnon Part Five The Process of Understanding Gendered Social Systems Readings Terms and Concepts In/Discernible Bodies: The Politics of Passing in Dominant and Marginal Media Catherine R. Squires and Daniel C. Brouwer Endorsing Equity and Applauding Stay-at-Home Moms: How Male Voices on Work-Life Reveal Aversive Sexism and Flickers of Transformation Sarah J. Tracy and Kendra D. Rivera Entering the Darkness: Rhetorics of Transformation and Gendered Violence in Patty Jenkins's Monster Bryan J. McCann Part Six The Process of Critiquing Gender Readings Terms and Concepts Power, Feminisms, and Coalitional Agency: Inviting and Enacting Difficult Dialogues Karma R. Chávez and Cindy L. Griffin Manhood in Contradiction: The Two Faces of Straight Edge Ross Haenfler Coming Out, Coming Home, Coming With: Models of Queer Sexuality in Contemporary China Shuzhen Huang and Daniel C. Brouwer Concluding Thoughts
SynopsisEncourages students to critically examine the ways that their gender has influenced his/her values, attitudes, behaviours, experiences, and communication. The publication contains sixteen published readings that examine the multitude of ways that gender influences the process of communication., The Process of Gender encourages students to critically examine the ways that their gender has influenced his/her values, attitudes, behaviors, experiences, and communication. The publication contains sixteen published readings that examine the multitude of ways that gender influences the process of communication. Students have spent a lifetime constructing their personal gender identity and the expectations and biases that come with that experience. The Process of Gender examines the influence of family, personal relationships, media, educational institutions, and workplaces have on one's understanding and presentation of masculinity and femininity. The Process of Gender : encourages critical thinking! Students are offered frameworks for understanding the process of gender and these, in turn, provide them with the ability to examine gendered communication from a critical perspective. features discussion questions to assist students in understanding the readings and encouraging them to voice their opinion. asks the student to interrogate assumptions about femininity and masculinity and learn about the possibility of gender as a fluid concept. enlightens students to the problems of sexism and gendered violence and helps the reader identify and fight against communication practices that perpetuate negative gender stereotypes. is divided into six sections: The Process of Defining Gender; The Process of Becoming Gendered; The Process of Communicating Gender; The Process of Examining Gendered Violence; The Process of Understanding Gender in Social Systems; and The Process of Critiquing Gender . features an accompanying website with a gradebook, a summary of the textbook articles, a class discussion board that includes article discussion questions from each article, practice quizzes, and links to outside sources.