Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology

Reconstructing Gender is an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent many perspectives and experiences. Eleven part-opening introductions identify important issues in the general field of study, describe the readings, remind the reader about some of the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.



Part It's not just about Gender
1. The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son, Marti;n Espada
2. From Nothing, A Consciousness, Helen Zia
3. The Past is Ever Recognizing the New Racism, Patricia Hill Collins
4. Angry Women Are Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today, Paula Gunn Allen
5. “J.A.P.”- The Politics of Scapegoating, Ruth Atkin and Adrienne Rich
6. White Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
7. Controlled or Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Farida Shaheed
8. Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism, Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
9. Patriarchy, Allan Johnson
10. Reflections on Global Governance and Transnational Feminist Movements in an Era of Infinite War, Rosalind Petchesky

Part Gender Socialization
11. The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber
12. Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities, Michael A. Messner
13. Who's the Fairest of Them All?, Jill Nelson
14. The Myth of the Latin I Just Met a Girl Named Mari;a, Judith Ortiz Cofer
15. He Defies You The Memoirs of a Sissy, Tommi Avicolli
16. Growing Up Hidden, Linnea Due

Part Embodiment
17. Beauty Is the Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body, Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler
18. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Leslie Marmon Silko
19. “A Way Outa No Way”: Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women, Becky W. Thompson
20. Just Walk on A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space, Brent Staples
21. Taking It, Leonard Kriegel
22. Do You Remember Me?, Barbara Macdonald
23. I’m Not Fat, I’m Latina, Christy Haubegger
24. The Tyranny of the Surgery’s Most Intimate Violation, Martha A. Coventry

Part Communication
25. For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend, Pat Parker
26. You Just Don’t Women and Men in Conversation, Deborah Tannen
27. Real Men Don’t Cry . . . and Other “Uncool” Myths, Phil W. Petrie
28. The New Momism, Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
29. Claiming Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expressions in Hip-Hop, Ayana Byrd
30. Virtual Organizing, Global Activism, Shireen Lee
31. Where are the women? The strange case of the missing feminists. When was the last time you saw one on TV?, Laura Zimmerman

Part Sexuality
32. How Men Have (a) Sex, Jon Stoltenberg
33. The Myth of the Sexual Athlete, Don Sabo
34. Reproductive A Disability Rights Issue, Marsha Saxton
35. The Impact of Multiple Marginalization, Paula C. Rust
36. Uses of the The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde

Part Families
37. The Transformation of Family Life, Lillian B. Rubin
38. Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks, Patricia Hill Collins
39. Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood, Kathleen Gerson
40. Man A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response, Audre Lorde
41. I Am a Man, Raul E. Ybarra
42. What is marriage for?, E.J. Graff

Part Education
43. Missing in Interaction, Myra and David Sadker
44. "What About the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us--and Don't Tell Us--About Boys in Schools, Michael S. Kimmel
45. Conflict within the Ivory Tower, Ruth Sidel
46. Black and Reflections on Graduate School, bell hooks

Part Paid Work and Unemployment
47. The "Success" of Welfare Reform, Sharon Hays
48. Sixty Cents to a Man’s Dollar, Ann Crittenden
49. Why Are There No Male Asian Anchormen on TV?, Ben Fong-Torres
50. The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders, Barbara Reskin
51. "Global Woman" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
52. America's Dirty Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery, Joy M. Zarembka
53. The Globetrotting Sneaker, Cynthia Enloe

Part Violence
54. Women, Violence, and Resistance, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
55. The Ultimate Growth Trafficking in Women and Girls, Jan Goodwin
56. Where Race and Gender Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography, Helen Zia
57. Homophobia in Straight Men, Terry A. Kupers
58. Stopping Sexual A Challenge for Community Education, Robert L. Allen
59. How Safe Is America?, Desiree Taylor
60. Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Mak...