San Antonio College Library

"The third edition of Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area - which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints - this book features many articles based on research done elsewhere throughout the world." "The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical...

They all raise gender-related issues that affect the beliefs and actions of contemporary women and men. The writings in this widely diversified anthology consider these issues, mainly from feminist perspectives, plus other issues equally provocative. The authors of the selections - female and male, straight and gay, and representing minority as well as dominant cultural perspectives - draw on their own experiences to philosophize and draw conclusions...

"This text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become gendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and post-structuralist accounts." "Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged, but stark polarities are resisted. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated...

"It is often said that sex sells, but who pays the price? Jennifer Wesely probes the sources and consequences of sexualization in girls' and women's lives. Offering new insights into an enduring problem, she documents the increasingly pervasive and powerful nature of raunch culture and demonstrates how females are being sexualized in ways that are more extreme and damaging than ever before."--Pub. desc.

"Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides an exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. It explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and...

"This book takes readers on a fascinating intellectual journey that showcases SHE-Q as the next great emerging intelligence--a force that can remake the world."--Provided by publisher.

"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,...