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Excellent erudite study of homsexuality in Mexico
The Night is Young is a poignant, personal account of ethnographic observations concerning homosexual interactions in Guadalajara done by a Mexican-born researcher.The narrative is accessible and interesting at all times, carrying the reader's interest from one chapter to the next.The author makes copious references to available literature on the subject, supporting his own observations with those of other authors.I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the Latin American construction of the world. ... Read more

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A web of prophecy, and the death of an Old Man
This is an absolutely fascinating book. It tells how the men of Ilahita, a village in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, consciously and deliberately destroyed their secret men's cult (the Tambaran) by revealingits secret artifacts to the women. The book describes in a detailed butincredibly readable way how a prophecy contained at the end the Ilahitacreation myth (involving the local lake and a Cassowary Woman) foretold thedestruction of the cult, enmeshing the men and women of Ilahita on adownward spiral that even involves the anthropologist author in the secondcoming of the Cassowary Woman's "youngest son". It also describesthe resulting damage to the village's gender dynamics, its culturaldestruction at the hands of the Revival Christianity (now run by the womenin a similar way to the method used by the men in the old Tambaran system),and the village's final loss of local power and land. Quite a tragic story,and one which has relevance to our own society's gender dynamics. ... Read more

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"This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-known scholars, and activists in the academy."--Darlene Clark Hine

Traps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century African American men on the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality. Monolithic constructions of gender and sexuality, reinforced by sexism and historical sanctioned homophobia, are the "traps" that give this book its focus and its title.

Authors include: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Bayard Rustin, Manning Marable, Derrick Bell, James Baldwin, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Huey Newton, Cornel West, and Kalamu ya Salaam. ... Read more

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This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorising on social identity. ... Read more

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contemporary sociology
From a young-insiping point of view, author naomi zack intertwines the dominating themses in modern sociological studies to try to shed light on issues that besiege us.Enlightened by past and present authors andthinkers, Zack develops a mindset of her own, through heavy ctitisisms andcontradictory support ... Read more

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Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. While racial and gender stereotypes may not be as obvious as they may have been in films of decades past, they often continue to convey troubling messages and stereotypes in subtle and surprising ways. ... Read more

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Women and Men: New Perspectives on Gender Differences presents data from the biological and social sciences that describe the state of research findings and contribute to our current understanding of gender differences, their range and extent, and how they are influenced and created by social, cultural, and biological factors. Ten contributors from the diverse fields of anthropology, economics, education, endocrinology, neurophysiology, psychiatry, and womenÂs studies come together to explore research on gender differences from a variety of perspectives. ... Read more

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Theorizing Self in Samoa develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa. As in many non-Western cultures, Samoan understandings of the self are more sociocentric--accentuating the social roles that people play--than egocentric--emphasizing individual, interior feelings and perceptions. Yet in Samoa, as in any culture, aspects of the self that are not emphasized in cultural explanations of personhood continually reappear, and must somehow be accounted for.
Jeannette Marie Mageo argues that all cultures attempt to encompass these stray experiences of the self within a discursive system. She introduces a way of charting human development through cultural discourses, which helps reveal how emotion, gender, and sexuality are constructed in Samoan society and other cultures, including our own.
The second half of the book explores the effects of cultural contact and colonialization on the innermost experience of cultural subjects. With its long ethnographic record, Samoa provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, opening a perspective on the ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives.
Theorizing Self in Samoa marks out important territory for psychological anthropology and students of Oceania, and will appeal also to students and scholars in cultural studies, women's studies, and history.
Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University.
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This text examines the issue of female sexuality from psychological, biological and sociological perspectives. It explores the major changes in the female life cycle: the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and postpartum, the menopause and the development of sexual orientation. The work aims to draw together the relationship between science and popular knowledge, experience and meaning, to develop a model of female sexuality. ... Read more

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Just ok.
I found many of the translations into English from Russian to be inferior although pretty darn good [have native Russian fluency here].Overall editorship and style makes the book feel disjointed and a difficult read.I give it 3 stars just for the effort of bringing so many cool [and often absolutely hilarious] Russian expressions in one book.I fault my curiosity for this purchase. ... Read more

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In The Gender and Psychology Reader, Blythe McVicker Clinchy and Julie K. Norem have culled through a diverse group ofreadings to provide a wide-ranging exploration of both progress made and problems encountered as psychologists grapple with gender. The volume includes both classic and contemporary readings, drawn from all branches of psychology-- social, developmental, personality, cognitive, history, physiological/biological--as well as from other disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and anthropology.

The essays cover a gamut of subjects including epistemological issues, the study of difference, the embodiment of gender, autonomy and connection in relationships, and clinical implications. A concluding chapter by the editors considers themes that can be traced through the different sections, gaps in current perspectives, and future directions.

The Gender and Psychology Reader includes contributions from an array of distinguished scholars from varying methodological and disciplinary backgrounds. Among the contributors are Laurel Furumoto, Jeanne Marecek, Laura S. Brown, Anne Fausto- Sterling, Sandra Lipsitz Bem, Michelle Fine, Jospeh H. Pleck, J. G. Morawski, Daniel A. Hart, Barrie Thorne, and Aida Hurtado. Organized for easy use as either a primary or supplementary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, The Gender and Psychology Reader will also serve as the essential reference for those in clinical practice interested in gender issues.

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Contains writings by60 authors
This co-edited collection contains 41 chapters written by 60 authors. My personal favorites are #14, the hard to find "Raising Darwin's Consciousness" by Sarah Hrdy and #3, the previously unpublished "Doing Personality Research: How Can Feminist Theories Help?" by Abigail Stewart. The co-editors did a nice job of creating a valuable and informative collection that is also well organized with useful editors' commentaries.

Intelligent Psychological Perspectives Collected Here
The co-editors of this intelligent Reader are to be commended for their perceptive selections and editorial introductions and conclusion. Many carefully selected and arranged readings are included. Co-editor Blythe Clinchy is a co-author of the classic book "Women's Ways of Knowing" and co-editor Julie Norem has recently published a book about constructive pessimism, "The Positive Power of Negative Thinking." All of this is high quality psychology that suggests the field does have a future in the 21st century.

A comprehensive neo-Piagetian, post-Freudian tome
Gender is approached from a semiotic sensibilty decoding alluring culturaliconography. ... Read more

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This volume responds to the need to extend the theory of citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the public and the private sphere. Through the application of intersectional methodology, the authors document how people’s most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies. The stories of intimate citizenship included in this volume make the theoretical discussion more palpable. Situated perspectives, as well as application of theoretical concepts to lived experience, extend citizenship’s territory beyond the conventional public sphere and locate it at the intersection of many axes of social, political, and cultural stratification.

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This work explores, through case studies and critical analyses, how media depictions affect the social construction of gender, sexuality, and identity. Through a combination of historical and contemporary topics, scholars examine the stereotypical portrayal of women and men and the contexts within which these stereotypes are illustrated. The studies also discuss the sociopolitical implications of symbols and images associated with these gender representations. Concrete references to particular media support both the methodological and theoretical approaches of the different essays. These quantitative and qualitative studies expose the myriad ways in which the media intervenes in our perception of popular culture. ... Read more

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Great contents, bad editing
This book has brought together essays written by numerous scholars who are widely known as excellent scholars and/or are the leading experts on their subjects, including Linda K. Fuller, Paul Martin Lester, Kathy B. McKee, Debra Merskin, Carol Pardun and Joseph W. Slade--in addition to mostly competent lesser lights. It's only a pity that the book's editing is so uneven in every way--grammar, spelling, typos, word choice, style, punctuation, organization and flow, etc., etc.--especially since Carstarphen supposedly is a former magazine editor. ... Read more

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Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1. Paving the Way Part 2. GENDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT 2. Gender, Status, and Power 3. Images of Women 4. The Meanings of Difference Part 3. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Sex, Gender and Bodies 6. Gendered Identities: Childhood And Adolescence 7. In a Woman's Body Part 4. ... Read more

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The women’s movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s sparked an increased interest in gender research, which continues to the present time. Over the years, significant advances have been made, with improvements in methods, terminology, and breadth of content. The two-volume Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology brings these achievements into bold perspective by presenting both the current state of the field and an ambitious agenda for the future. The Handbook’s major goals—better communication between researchers, identification and addressing of knowledge gaps, elimination of bias in research and treatment—are exemplified in both volumes.

Areas covered in Volume 1, Gender Research in Basic and Experimental Psychology, include: The history of the psychology of women, men/masculinity, and sexual minorities, the brain and behavior: physiology and beyond, learning, education, and cognition, including academic, spatial, and creative abilities. Written, oral, and nonverbal communication, emotion, motivation, and sexuality, gender roles and identity across the lifespan.

Volume 2, Gender Research in Social and Applied Psychology, covers these critical areas: Abnormal and clinical psychology, including gendered aspects of depression, body image, and eating disorders, psychotherapy with women, men, couples, and families, social psychology, including intimate relationships, group behavior, and gender prejudice, work, the workplace, and leadership, health care and health behavior, special topics, from the media to the military.

Blending the challenging with the accessible, Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology is a reference of the first order for researchers, a practice-enhancing resource for clinical psychologists and other therapists, and an exceedingly useful text for the professor or graduate student.

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Eskeridge and Hunter’s Sexuality, Gender and the Law provides detailed information on the sexuality, gender, and the law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. ... Read more

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In any society, the perception of femininity and masculinity is not necessarily dependent on female or male genitalia. Cross dressing, gender impersonation, and long-term masquerades of the opposite sex are commonplace throughout history.

In contemporary American culture, the behavior occurs most often among male heterosexuals and homosexuals, sometimes for erotic pleasure, sometimes not. In the past, however, cross dressing was for the most part practiced more often by women than men. Although males often burlesqued women and gave comic impersonations of them, they rarely attempted a change of public gender until the twentieth century. This phenomenon, according to Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough, has implications for any understanding of the changing relationships between the sexes in the twentieth century.

In most Western societies, being a man and demonstrating masculinity is more highly prized than being a woman and displaying femininity. Some non-Western societies, however, are more tolerant and even encourage men to behave like women and women to act like men. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender not only surveys cross dressing and gender impersonation throughout history and in a variety of cultures but also examines the medical, biological, psychological, and sociological findings that have been presented in the modern scientific literature. This volume offers the results of the authors' research into contemporary gender issues and the search for explanations. After examining the various current theories regarding cross dressing and gender impersonation, the Bulloughs offer their own theory.

This book, widely deemed a classic in its field, is the culmination of thirty years of research by the Bulloughs into gender impersonation and cross dressing. Their groundbreaking findings will be of interest to anyone involved in the debate over nature versus nurture, and have implications not only for scholars in the various social sciences and sex and gender studies, but for educators, nurses, physicians, feminists, gays, lesbians, and general readers. This work will be of more personal interest to anyone who identifies as a transvestite or transsexual or who has been classified by medical and psychiatric professionals as suffering from gender dysphoria.

Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender covers a wide range of cultures and periods. As the first comprehensive attempt to examine the phenomenon of cross dressing, it will be of interest to students and scholars of social history, sociology, nursing, and women's studies.

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8 REASONS FOR CROSS-DRESSING
Vern L. Bullough & Bonnie Bullough
Cross Dressing, Sex, & Gender

(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993)
(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.B785 1993)

This is a comprehensive book on cross-dressing
from mythological times into the early 1990's.
Every reason for cross-dressing is included:
1. transsexualism; 2. homosexuality; 3. heterosexual sex-scripts;
4. theater; 5. stage impersonation of the other sex;
6. lesbians who wanted to 'marry' other women;
7. women who wanted the advantages of living as men;
8. drag queen prostitutes.

Once the various reasons for dressing in the clothes of the other sex
are better understood and distinguished from one another,
greater clarity will emerge.
For the present, this may be the best comprehensive book.
No general theory of cross-dressing is offered.
This book basically reports the history of cross-dressing.

Discover other books in this Internet bibliography:
"Cross-Dressing Bibliography".

James Leonard Park.

Sexological history of cross dressing
A marvelous read that goes well into the sexological depths of cross dressing. It resists a disease model approach discussion of gender variance and gives a more interdisciplinary account. Since the authors have been providing great contributions to the field of transgender studies for so long, they are easily able to provide historical analyses of cross dressing, sex and gender that are rivetting.

This is but one of the amazing texts in their treasure trove. It can easily be read by both scholars and a general reader since it is so accessible and well written.

Gender 501
This book might be a textbook for a first level graduate course in gender variance.If you've already read a lot on the subject, this book will help you to organize your thoughts (and your library).It's a wonderful survey, both from a historical standpoint and from a cross-cultural standpoint.There is also a critical, but sensible, review of the various biological, psychological and sociological explanations of gender variance.The authors suggest that no one explanation suffices; this book was written in 1993 and although a lot has been learned since then, I would guess that they would draw the same conclusion today if they were preparing a second edition.Which I hope they are!Either way, they also argue that gender variance is not a disease (but we already knew that, didn't we!) unless it causes other problems in the life of a particular individual.Although I have described this book as a "textbook", it isn't at all dry, musty and academic.There are endnotes for each chapter which you can reference for aditional reading, and rather than a bibliography the final chapter is the authors' well-thought out list of recommendations for additional reading.Because they tell you why they selected these books, you will find their recommendations very useful.An unusual book---a great textbook and a great read! ... Read more

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How do young people today construct their sexual identities? Are young people sexually liberated, or is human sexuality increasingly controlled and manipulated by commercial forces? Thomas Johansson explores the construction of sexual identities by young people as part of a wider process of identity construction, combining the work of key authors such as Elias and Foucault with original and revealing empirical material drawn from an extensive extensive survey of the views of 1300 sixteen to nineteen year olds. The topics covered include; fidelity and infidelity, love, homosexuality, pornography and beauty ideals. Designed to look behind media images and popular prejudices the book adds insight to the literature on how young people of both genders, of different nationalities and of different group allegiances view and relate to their own sexuality. ... Read more

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A challenging exploration of contemporary theories on femininity with cutting-edge papers from leading analysts, this volume presents a thought-provoking dialogue on femininity, sexuality, gender and masculinity. These key issues are analyzed and discussed in new and stimulating ways, whilst familiar concepts are dissected and dismantled to bring forward fresh ideas. The diversity and developments currently advancing studies on femininity towards new understandings are shown clearly throughout.

This rich and inspiring collection of papers grew from the “Sexuality and Gender” conference held in Sweden in 2002, organized by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. The conference was created with the conscious intent of bringing different ideas to bear upon each other in order to promote further research into this vital area. The fascinatingly diverse interpretations that the conference generated led to the desire to publish these papers for a wider audience. The contributions therefore have been reworked to provide a readable and compelling communication of different viewpoints on the subject of femininity.

Contributors: Jessice Benjamin, Colette Chiland, Nancy J. Chodorow, Gisela Kaplan, Julia Kristeva, Irene Matthis, Joyce McDougall, Juliet Mitchell, Toril Moi, Paul Verhaeghe, Ebba Witt-Brattstrom. ... Read more