Gender : a sociological reader / edited by Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Part 1: Gender and knowledge] Introduction: the gendering of sociology / Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott -- Should 'sex' really be 'gender', or 'gender' really be 'sex'? / Liz Stanley -- Doing gender / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman -- Performative subversions / Judith Butler -- Rethinking sex and gender / Christine Delphy -- Hegemonic masculinity / Bob Connell -- Women's perspective as a radical critique of sociology / Dorothy E. Smith -- Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill-Collins -- The heterosexual imaginary / Chrys Ingraham.

[Part 2: Class, gender and the labour market] Women and social stratification: a case of intellectual sexism / Joan Acker -- Gender, class and stratification: towards a new approach / Sylvia Walby -- Capitalism, patriarchy and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann -- Women working worldwide / Swasti Mitter -- Black women, sexism and racism / Gemma Tang Nain -- Patriarchy and the professions: the gendered politics of occupational closure / Anne Witz -- Full wages and component wages / Janet Siltanen -- Lesbians in manual jobs / Gillian Dunne -- A single or segregated market? Gendered and racialised divisions / Annie Phizacklea.

[Part 3: Paid and unpaid work] Public and private: marking the boundaries / Linda Imray and Audrey Middleton -- Domestic labourers: or stand by your man -- while he sits down and has a cup of tea / Sallie Westwood -- Fast food, fettered work: Chinese women in the ethnic catering industry / Sue Baxter and Geoff Raw -- The variety of work done by wives / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard -- Resisting equal opportunities: the issue of maternity / Cynthia Cockburn -- Emotional labour / Arlie Hachschild -- Sexual servicing and the labour market / Lisa Adkins.

[Part 4: Marriage and intimate relationships] The husband's marriage and the wife's marriage / Jessie Bernard -- Household spending, personal spending and the control of money in marriage / Jan Pahl -- The sexualisation of love / Steven Seidman -- But he said he loved me / Wendy Langford -- Whose orgasm is this anyway? 'Sex work" in long-term heterosexual couple relationships / Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden -- Marriage and family in a British Pakistani community / Haleh Afshar -- Lovers through the looking glass / Kath Weston -- 'Sex, money and the kitchen sink' / Brian Heaphy, Catherine Donovan and Jeffrey Weeks -- Intimacy transformed? / Lynne Jamieson -- What's wrong with socialisation? Liz Stanley and Sue Wise -- Becoming male or female / Bronwyn Davies -- Do girls and boys have different cultures? / Barrie Thorne -- Redefining black womanhood / Heidi Mirza -- Ambivalent femininities / Beverly Skeggs -- In the same boat? / Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu and Rachel Thomson -- Choosing a story / Vera Whisman -- The career path of the male femaler / Richard Ekins.

[Part 5: Becoming gendered] What's wrong with socialisation? Liz Stanley and Sue Wise -- Becoming male or female / Bronwyn Davies -- Do girls and boys have different cultures? / Barrie Thorne -- Redefining black womanhood / Heidi Mirza -- Ambivalent femininities / Beverly Skeggs -- In the same boat? / Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu and Rachel Thomson -- Choosing a story / Vera Whisman -- The career path of the male femaler / Richard Ekins.

[Part 6: Gendered embodiment] Seeing red / Sophie Laws -- The egg and the sperm / Emily Martin -- Black bodies, white bodies: toward an iconography of female sexuality in the late Nineteenth Century / Sander Gilman -- Manly Aesthetics / Emmanual Reynaud -- You too can have a body like mine / David Morgan -- From objectified body to embodied subject / Kathy Davis -- Pumping irony / Alan Mansfield and Barbara McGinn -- Drag and camp / Esther Newton -- Defining and producing genitals / Susanne J. Kessler.