Gender Comprehensive Exams Reading List

Gender Comprehensive Exams Reading List

Fall 2004

Theory/Methodology

J. Acker. 1973. "Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism." AJS 78:936-45.

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

J. Benjamin. 1988. Bonds of Love.

N. Chodorow, 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California Press.

P.H. Collins. 1991. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.

R.W. Connell. 1987. Gender & power: society, the person, and sexual politics.

R.W. Connell. 1995. Masculinities: Knowledge, Power, and Social Change.

R.W. Connell. 2000. The Men and The Boys.

M. DeVault. 1996. “Talking Back to Sociology: Distinctive Contributions of Feminist Methodology.” Annual Review of Sociology 22: 29-50.

P. England. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. New York: A. de Gruyter.

N. Fraser. 1989. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. University of Minnesota Press.

E. Goffman. 1977. “The Arrangement between the Sexes” Theory and Society 4: 301-31.

I. Grewal and C. Kaplan. 1994. Editors. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Politics. University of Minnesota Press.

S. G. Harding. 1991. Whose science? Whose knowledge? : Thinking from women's lives.

H. Hartmann. 1976. "Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex." Signs, 1:137-69.

M. Komarovsky. 1992. "The Concept of Social Role Revisited." Gender & Society, 6:301-13.

C. MacKinnon. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Harvard University Press.

C. Mohanty, 2003. “’Under Western Eyes’: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” from Feminist Without Borders.

L. Nicholson, ed. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism. Routledge.

T. Parsons. 1964. “Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States.” In Parsons, Essays in Sociological Theory.”

L. Sargent. 1981. Editor. Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism.

D. Smith. 1979. "A Sociology for Women." Pp. 135-87 in Sherman and Beck, eds., The Prism of Sex. Reprinted in D. Smith, The Everyday World as Problematic.

E. Spelman, 1988. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought. Beacon Press, Boston.

J. Sprague. 1997. “Holy Men and Big Guns: The Can[non] in Social Theory.” Gender & Society 11:88-107.

J. Stacey and B. Thorne. 1985. "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology." Social Problems 32:301-16.

C. West and D.H. Zimmerman. 1987. "Doing Gender." Gender & Society 1:125-51.

Class/Race/Ethnicity

J. Acker. 1988. "Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution." Signs, 13:473-87

M. Alicea. 1997. "A Chambered Nautilus: The Contradictory Nature of Puerto Rican

Women's Role in the Social Construction of a Transnational Community." Gender & Society, 11:597-626.

M. Baca Zinn and B. T. Dill. 1994. Women of color in US Society.

M. Baca Zinn & B.T. Dill. 1996. “Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism.” Feminist Studies, 22: 321-31.

M. Baca Zinn. 1982. “Review Essay: Mexican American Women in the Social

Sciences”, Signs 8(2):

M. Baca Zinn. 1982. “Chicano Men and Masculinity”, Journal of Ethnic Studies, 10(2)

N. Davis and R. Robinson. 1998. “Do Wive’s Matter? Class Identities of Wives and

Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994.” Social Forces 76:1063-86.

B. T. Dill. 1979. "The Dialectics of Black Womanhood." Signs 4:543-55.

P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1992. “Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints: The reconstruction of gender relations among Mexican immigrant women and men.” Gender & Society 6: 393-415.

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

P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. Domestica.

Kalmijn. 1994. “Mother’s Occupational Status and Children’s Schooling.” American Sociological Review, 59:257-75.

S. McLanahan. 1985. “Family Structure and the Reproduction of Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology, 90:873-901.

C. Moraga and G. Anzaldua. 1981. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color.

S. Ostrander 1984. Women of the Upper Class.

Pyke and Johnson. 2003. “Asian American women and Racialized Femininities: ‘Doing’ Gender across Cultural Worlds.” G & S 17: 33-53.

J. Rollins. 1985. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers.

Segura and Pierce. 1993. “Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited.” Signs 19: 62-91.

Stier and Tienda. 1992. “Family, Work, and Women: The Labor Supply of Hispanic

Immigrant Wives.” International Migration Review, 26:1291-1313.

A. K. Wing (editor), 1997. 2003. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader.

K. Yamanake and K. McClelland. 1994. “Earning the Model Minority Image: Diverse Strategies of Economic Adaptation by Asian-American Women.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 17:79-114.

Education/Body/Sexuality

J. Bettie. 2003. Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity.

S. Bailey (editor). 2002. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education.

S. Bordo. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.

L. Carpenter. 2002. “Gender and the Meaning and Experience of Virginity Loss in the Contemporary United States.” Gender & Society 16:345-365.

S. Catsambis. 1994. “The Path to Math: Gender and Racial-Ethnic Differences in Mathematics Participation from Middle School to High School.” Sociology of Education 67:199-215.

L. Chancer. 1998. Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism.

S. Correll. 2004.“Constraints into preferences: gender, status and emerging career aspirations." American Sociological Review.69: 93-113

S. Correll. 2001. “Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Baised Self-Assessments.” American Journal of Scoiology 106:1691-1730.

D. Entwisle et al. 1994. “The gender gap in math: Its possible origins in neighborhood effects.” American Sociological Review, 59: 822-838.

Y. L. Espiritu, 2003. “’We don’t sleep around like White girls do”: Family, culture, and gender in Filipina lives.” Pp. 263-84 in Gender and US Immigration: Contemporary Trends, edited by P. Hondagneu-Sotelo.

C. Feiring. 1999. “Gender Identity and the Development of RomanticRelationships in

Adolescence.” Pp. 211-234 in The Development of Romantic Relationships in

Adolescence. Wyndol Furman, B. Bradford Brown, and

Candice Feiring (Eds.)

A. Ferguson. 2000. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity.

C. Gilligan. 19994. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

G. Gonzalez-Lopez. 2003. “De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women.” Pp. 217-40 in Gender and U.S. immigration: Contemporary Trends edited by P. Hondagneu-Sotelo.

J. Holland and R. Thomson. 1998. “Sexual Relationships, Negotiation, and Decision

Making.” Teenage Sexuality: Health, Risk, and Education .

E. B. Kaplan. 1997. Not our kind of girl: Unraveling the myths of Black Teenage Motherhood. Univ. of California Press.

J. Lauritsen. 1994. “Explaining Race and Gender Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior.” Social Forces, 72: 859-883.

J. Lee. 2003. "Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body” Pp. 82-99 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.

J. Loftus. 2001. “America’s Liberalization in Attitudes toward Homosexuality: 1973-1998.” American Sociological Review, 66: 762-782.

N. Lopez. 2003. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education.

J. Lorber. 1993. "Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology." Pp. 12-24 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.

W. Luttrell. 2003. Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens.

K. Luker. 1996. Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy.

K. Martin. 2003. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools.” Pp. 219-239 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.

K. Martin. 1996. Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self.

R. Michael, J. Gagnon, E. Laumann, and G. Kolata. 1994. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey.

S. Moore and D. Rosenthal. 1993. Sexuality in Adolescence.

P. Orenstein. 1994. SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap.

L.M. Phillips. 2000. Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination.

B. Rizman and P. Schwartz. 2002. “After the sexual revolution: Gender politics in teen dating”, Contexts, 1: 16-24.

L. Rubin. 1982. Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together.

M. Sadker & D. Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls.

A. Schalet. 2000. “Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States and the Netherlands.” Body&Society, 6: 75-105.

R. Solinger. 1990. Wake Up, Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade.

A. Stein. 1997. Sex and Sensibilities: Stories of a Lesbian Generation.

B. Thorne. 1990. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School.

D. Tolman. 2003. “Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls” Pp. 100-121 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.

D. Tolman. 1994. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality. Gender and Society, 8(3), 324-342

S. L. Williams. 2002. “Trying on Gender, Gender Regimes, and the Process of Becoming Women.” Gender & Society 16:29-52.

L. Wu. 1996. “Effects of Family Instability, Income, and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth.” American Sociological Review, 61:386-406.