The gendered society reader

Introduction / Michael S. Kimmel – Part 1. Anatomy and destiny: Biological arguments about gender differences Psychological sex differences: origins through sexual selection / David M. Buss The trouble with testosterone: will boys just be boys? / Robert M. Sapolsky The mismeasure of woman / Carol Tavris Part 2. Cultural constructions of gender Sex and temperament in three primitive societies / Margaret Mead The function of male initiation ceremonies at puberty / John W. M. Whiting, Richard Kluckhohn, and Albert Anthony The socio-cultural context of rape: a cross-cultural study / Peggy Reeves Sanday Part 3. The psychology of sex roles Sex and personality: studies in masculinity and femininity / Lewis Terman and Catharine Cox Miles A social-psychological model of gender / Kay Deaux and Brenda Major The exotic-becomes-erotic theory of sexual orientation / Daryl J. Bem Part 4. The social construction of gender roles Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered organizations / Joan Acker Boundaries, negotiation, consciousness: reconceptualizing gender relations / Judith M. Gerson and Kathy Peiss Doing gender / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman

Part 5. The gendered family

Modern marriage: revising the cultural script / David Popenoe

Household labor and the routine production of gender / Scott Coltrane

The families of lesbians and gay men: a new frontier in family research / Katherine R. Allen and David H. Demo

Part 6. The gendered classroom

Gender equity in the classroom: the unfinished agenda / Myra Sadker ... [et al.]

Sexual harassment in K-12 schools / Nan Stein

The role of gender in college classroom interactions: a social context approach / Katherine Canada and Richard Pringle

Part 7. The gendered workplace

Bringing the men back in: sex differentiation and the devaluation of women's work / Barbara F. Reskin

Guarding the gates: the micropolitics of gender / Judith Lorber

The glass escalator: hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions / Christine L. Williams

Part 8. Gendered intimacies

The feminization of love / Francesca M. Cancian

The approach-avoidance dance: men, women, and intimacy / Lillian B. Rubin

Covert intimacy: closeness in men's friendships / Scott Swain

The life and death of gay clones / Martin P. Levine

Part 9. The gender of violence

Wars, wimps, and women: talking gender and thinking war / Carol Cohn

The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.]