Gendered Sexualities

• Page count

  280 pages

• Category

  Gender Studies, Gender Groups

• Publisher

  JAI Press Inc.

• Ebook file size

• Language

  English

Summary

Contemporary scholars have made important substantive and theoretical contributions to understanding the ways in which power is exercised through gender and through sexuality. Drawing upon a number of theoretical frameworks, including feminism, post-modernism, masculinities and queer theory, researchers have challenged dichotomous, static, and biologically reductionist conceptualizations of gender and sexuality. They have documented the myriad ways in which sex, gender and sexualities are far more complex than previously assumed. However, despite these advances in research, the tendency in the literature has been to examine gender or sexuality. This volume proposes a corrective to that trend by offering a collection of research based articles in which the authors examine the exercise of power at the intersection of gender and sexuality. The articles in this collection offer insights into some of the ways in which gender can be used to challenge the exercise of sexual power, as well as the ways that it can reify patriarchal, heteronormative sexual relations. Additionally, the articles advance the understanding of some of the institutionalized ways that sexual power might be used to challenge or reify gender relations. The articles in this volume have been written so that each is accessible to both students and senior scholars of gender and sexuality.

Table of contents

• Introduction, P. Gagne, R. Tewksbury; add penis and stir - a cookbook approach to gender identity, C.S. Lindquist; the gender of desire - the sexual fantasies of women and men, M.S. Kimmel, R.F. Plante; voicing gender - the performance of gender in the context of phone sex lines, C. Mattley; the Playboy paradox - the case against the objectification of women, J.K. Beggan, S.T. Allison; four renditions of doing female drag - feminine appearing conceptual variations of a masculine theme, S.P. Schacht; queering sexuality and doing gender - transgender men's identification with gender and sexuality, S. Vidal-Ortiz; fracturing transgender: intersectional constructions and identization, K.L. Broad.