Gender

Betsy Erbaugh

Comprehensive Exam Reading List

July 3, 2002

 

Interest areas:

Gender Theory, Feminist Theory & Methodology
Gender, Race, Class, & Imperialism

Queer Theory/Gender & Sexuality

Gender & Welfare

Women's Community Organizing

 

 

Gender/Feminist Theory & Methodology

 

Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4:139-58.

Bem, Sandra. 1993. The Lenses of Gender. New Haven: Yale.

Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Los Angeles: UC Press.

 

Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling. 1987. “The Development of Feminist Consciousness Among Asian American Women.” Gender & Society 1:284-99

 

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000.  Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Rev. 10th anniversary edition.  NY: Routledge.

Connell, R.W.  1985.  "Theorising Gender."  Sociology 19,2:260-272.

Deaux, Kay and Brenda Major. 1987. "Putting Gender Into Context: An Interactive Model of Gender-Related Behavior." Anthropological Review. 94(3):369-389.

Deaux, Kay and Brenda Major. 1990. "A Social-Psychological Model of Gender." In Deborah L. Rhode (Ed.), Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Disch, Estelle.  2000.  Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. 2nd edition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co.

England, Paula. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.  New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Ferree Myra Marx, Judith Lorber and Beth B. Hess. 1999.  ReVisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Garcia, Alma.  "The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980." 

Hansen, K.  1989.  “Helped Put in a Quilt.”  Gender and Society 3:217-38.

Haraway, Donna J. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

Harding, Sandra.  1983.  "Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?"  in Discovering Reality, S. Harding and M.B. Hintikka, eds.  D. Reidel Publishing.

hooks, bell.  1984.  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.  Boston: South End Press.

Jaggar, Alison. 1983. Feminist Politics and Human Nature. Sussex: Harvester Press.

 

Keller, Evelyn Fox.  1978.  "Gender and Science." in Discovering Reality, S. Harding and M.B. Hintikka, eds.  Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science, Inc.

Kessler, Suzanne J. and Wendy McKenna. 1978. “Toward a Theory of Gender.” In Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Kimmel.  “Masculinity as Homophobia.”

 

King, Deborah K.  1988.  "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology."  Signs 14,1:42-69.

Lengermann, Patricia Madoo and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley. 1998. The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930: McGraw-Hill.

Lorber, Judith. 1995. Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press.

 

Lorber, Judith and Susan A. Farrell. 1991. The Social Construction of Gender. New York: Sage.

 

Mann, Susan A and Lori R Kelley. 1997. “Standing at the Crossroads of Modern Thought.” Gender & Society :391-408.

Messner, Michael. 1989. “Masculinities and Athletic Careers.” Gender & Society 3:71-88.

Renzetti, Claire M. and Daniel J. Curran.  1999.  Women, Men, and Society. 4th Edition.  Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

 

Reskin, Barbara and Irene Padavic. 1994. Women and Men at Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Rubin, Gayle. 1975. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex.” Pp. 157-210 in Toward an Anthropology of Women, edited by R. R. Reiter. London: Monthly Review Press.

Salvaggio, Ruth.  1999.  The Sounds of Feminist Theory.  Albany: SUNY Press.

Scott, Joan Wallach. 1999. Gender and the Politics of History, Rev. edition. New York: Columbia University Press.

Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology: Northeastern University Press.

Stam, H.J. and H.L. Radke. 1994. Power/Gender: Social Relations in Theory and Practice. London: Sage.

Thorne, Barrie and Zella Luria.  1986.  "Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds."  Social Problems 33:176-190.

Tong, Rosemarie. 1998.  Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. 2d ed.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

West, Candace and Don Zimmerman. 1987.  “Doing Gender.” Gender & Society 1(2):125-51.

West, Candace and S. Fenstermaker. 1995. "Doing Difference." Gender & Society 9(#4) pp. 526-526.  Aug.

 

Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1994.  Women of Color in U.S. Society. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.

 

 

Gender, Race, Class, & Imperialism

 

Acker, Joan.  1999.  "Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking." in ReVisioning Gender, edited by M.M. Ferree, J. Lorber and B.B. Hess. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Andersen, Margaret and Patricia Hill Collins.  1995.  Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology.  CA: Wadsworth.

 

Anzaldúa, Gloria E. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Co.

Bederman, Gail. 1996. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917: University of Chicago.

Browne, Irene.  1999.  Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality.  New York: Russell Sage.

Fine, Michelle and Lois Weis. 1998. The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults. Boston: Beacon Press.

Frankenberg, Ruth.  1993.  White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Minneapolis: Univ. of MN.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano.  1999.  "The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework." in ReVisioning Gender, edited by M.M. Ferree, J. Lorber and B.B. Hess. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

hooks, bell.  1992.  Black Looks: Race and Representation.  Boston: South End Press.

Hurtado, Aída. 1996.  The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hurtado, Aída. "The Politics of Sexuality and the Gender Subordination of Chicanas." in C. Trujillo, ed.  Living Chicana Theory. 

Lorde, Audre. 1997. “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, & Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by A. McClintock, A. Mufti, and E. Shohat. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Luker, Kristen. 1984. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California.

McIntosh, Peggy. 2001. “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988).” Pp. 95-105 in Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, edited by M. Andersen and P. H. Collins. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Molyneux, Maxine. 1986. “Mobilization without emancipation? Women's interests, state, and revolution.” in Transition and development: Problems of Third World socialism, edited by R. Fagen, C. D. Deere, and J. L. Corragio. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1997. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Pp. 255-277 in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by A. McClintock, A. Mufti, and E. Shohat. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

Moraga, Cherríe. 2000. "La Güera." Estelle Disch, ed. Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. 2nd edition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co: 564-570.

Ostrander, Susan A. 1999. “Gender and Race in a Pro-Feminist, Progressive, Mixed-Gender, Mixed-Race Organization.” Gender & Society 13:628-642.

Roberts, D. 1997.  Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.  New York: Pantheon.

Russo, Ann. 1991. “'We Cannot Live without Our Lives': White Women, Antiracism, and Feminism.” in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by C. T. Mohanty, A. Russo, and L. Torres: Indiana University Press.

Safa, Helen I. 1995a. “Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination.” Latin American Perspectives 22:32-50.

Safa, Helen I. 1995b. The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc.

Segura, Denise A.  1992. "Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: 'You Have to Prove Yourself More.'"  Sociological Perspectives 35,1:163-182.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.  1995.  "Can the Subaltern Speak?"  in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, edited by B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, and H. Tiffen. London: Routledge.                                  

Tiano, Susan. 1994. Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Williams, Patricia J. 1991.  The Alchemy of Race and Rights.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Wing, Adrien Katherine. 1997.  Critical Race Feminism: A Reader.  New York : New York University Press.

 

Zavella, Patricia. 1987. Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Zinn, Maxine Baca. 1990. “Family, Feminism, and Race in America.” Gender & Society 4:68-82.

 

 

Queer Theory/Gender & Sexuality

 

Anzaldúa, Gloria E.   "To(o) Queer the Writer-Loca, escritora y chicana." In C. Trujillo, ed.  Living Chicana Theory. 

Butler, Judith. 1997. "Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion.” in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, & Postcolonial Perspectives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.  New York:Routledge.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1993. "Sexuality and Gender: An Interactionist/Poststructural Reading." In P. England, ed. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.  New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.

Foucault, Michel.  1990 [1978].  The History of Sexuality.  Vintage Books.

Laqueur, Thomas Walter. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches.  Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.

Scott, Sue and David Morgan. 1993. Body Matters: Essays on the Sociology of the Body. London; Washington, DC: Falmer Press.

Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky.  Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Seidman, Steven. 1992. Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America. New York: Routledge.

 

 

Gender & Welfare

 

Borchorst, Anette.  "Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State." in ReVisioning Gender, edited by M.M. Ferree, J. Lorber and B.B. Hess. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Boris, Eileen. 1993. “The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the 'Political.'.” Pp. 213-245 in Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, edited by S. Koven and S. Michel. New York: Routledge.

Coughlin, Richard.  1989.  "Welfare Myths and Stereotypes." 79-106 in R. Coughlin (ed.), Reforming Welfare: Lessons, Limits, and Choices.  Albuquerque: UNM.

Edin, Kathryn and Laura Lein. 1997. Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Gordon, Linda. 1990. “The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State.” Pp. 9-35 in Women, the State, and Welfare, edited by L. Gordon. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin.

Gordon, Linda. 1994. Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935. New York: The Free Press.

Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier. 1996. Women in the American Welfare Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lubiano, Wahneema.  1992.  "Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels: Ideological War by Narrative Means." in T. Morrison, ed.  Race-ing justice, en-gendering power: essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality. New York : Pantheon Books, 1992

Mink, Gwendolyn. 1995. The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Quadagno, Jill.  1994.  The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty.  New York: Oxford. 

 

Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

 

Trattner, Walter I.  1999.  From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America.  6th edition.  NY: Free Press.

 

 

Women's Community Organizing

Abrahams, Naomi. 1996. “Negotiating Power, Identity, Family, and Community: Women's Community Participation.” Gender & Society 10:768-797.

Ackelsberg, Martha A. 1988. “Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Some Implications for a Democratic Polity.” Pp. 297-313 in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by A. Bookman and S. Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Barnett, Bernice McNair. 1995. “Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations: Their Struggles during the "Doldrums".” Pp. 199-219 in Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement, edited by M. M. Ferree and P. Y. Martin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Bays, Sharon.  1998.  "What's Culture Got to Do with It?  'Cultural Preservation' and Hmong Women's Activism in Central California."  Transforming Anthropology 7(2):35-45.

Blee, Kathleen M.  1998.  Women and Radical Protest.  New York: NYU Press.

Broudy, David. 1997. “Social Change and the Construction of Community in a Guatemalan Refugee Camp.” PhD dissertation Thesis, Sociology, UNM, Albuquerque.

Cable, S.  1992.  "Women's Social Movement Involvement: The Role of Structural Availability in Recruitment and Participation Processes."  Sociological Quarterly 33(1):35-50.

DeSena, Judith N. 1998. “Low-income Women and Community Power.” Sociological Spectrum 18:311-332.

East, Jean F. 2000. “Empowerment Through Welfare-Rights Organizing: A Feminist Perspective.” Affilia 15:311-328.

Feldman, Roberta M., Susan Stall, and Patricia A. Wright. 1998. “"The Community Needs to Be Built by Us": Women Organizing in Chicago Public Housing.” Pp. 257-274 in Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender, edited by N. Naples. New York: Routledge.

Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 1988. “Building in Many Places: Multiple Commitments and Ideologies in Black Women's Community Work.” Pp. 53-76 in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by A. Bookman and S. Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Haywoode, Terry L. 1999. “Working-Class Women and Local Politics: Styles of Community Organizing.” Research in Politics and Society 7:111-134.

Herda-Rapp, Ann.  1998.  "The Power of Informal Leadership: Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement."  Sociological Focus 31(4):341-355.

Irons, Jenny. 1998. “The Shaping of Activist Recruitment and Participation.” Gender & Society 12:692-709.

Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya.  "Political Consciousness, Identity, and Social Movements: Peasant Women in the Philippines and Filipino Immigrant Activists in Chicago."  Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 21:271-292.

Lutrell, Wendy. 1988. “The Edison School Struggle: The Reshaping of Working-Class Education and Women's Consciousness.” Pp. 136-156 in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by A. Bookman and S. Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Morgen, Sandra. 1988. “'It's the Whole Power of the City Against Us!': The Development of Political Consciousness in a Women's Health Care Coalition.” Pp. 97-115 in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by A. Bookman and S. Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Naples. 1992. “Activist Mothering.” Gender & Society 6:441-463.

Naples, Nancy. 1991. “"Just What Needed to Be Done": The Political Practice of Women Community Workers in Low-Income Neighborhoods.” Gender & Society 5:478-494.

Naples, Nancy. 1998a. Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty. New York: Routledge.

Naples, Nancy A. 1998b. Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender. New York: Routledge.

Palier, Judith. 2000. “Without Strong Roots the Tree Won't Grow : Women's Activism, Gender Roles, and Civil Society in Mexico.” PhD Dissertation, Political Science, UNM, Albuquerque.

Pardo, Mary S. 1998. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in two Los Angeles Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Park, Lisa Sun-Hee. 1998. “Navigating the Anti-Immigrant Wave: The Korean Women's Hotline and the Politics of Community.” Pp. 176-195 in Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender, edited by N. Naples. New York: Routledge.

Prindeville, Diane-Michele and Jon G. Bretting.  1998.  "Indigenous Women Activists and Political Participation: The Case of Environmental Justice."  Women & Politics 19(1):39-58.

Safa, Helen Icken. 1990. “Women's Social Movements in Latin America.” Gender & Society 4:354-369.

Schulz, Amy J.  "Navajo Women and the Politics of Identity."  Social Problems 45(3):336-355.

Stack, Carol. 1974. All Our Kin. New York: BasicBooks.

Stall, Susan and Randy Stoecker. 1998. “Community Organizing or Organizing Community?  Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment.” Gender & Society 12:729-756.

Susser, Ida. 1988. “Working-Class Women, Social Protest, and Changing Ideologies.” Pp. 257-271 in Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by A. Bookman and S. Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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