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COMPANION TO WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies EDITED BY NANCY A. NAPLES This edition first published 2020 © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by law. Advice on how to obtain permission to reuse material from this title is available at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. The right of Nancy A. Naples to be identified as the author of this editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with law. 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Neither the publisher nor authors shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Naples, Nancy A., editor. Title: Companion to women’s and gender studies / edited by Nancy A. Naples. Description: First Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019054468 (print) | LCCN 2019054469 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119315087 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119315131 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119315094 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Women–History. | Women–Social conditions–History. | Sex role–History. Classification: LCC HQ1121 .C6376 2020 (print) | LCC HQ1121 (ebook) | DDC 305.409–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054468 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054469 Cover Design: Wiley Cover Image: © Fat Jackey/Shutterstock Set in 10/12.5pt Sabon by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Editors vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xvii PART I INTRODUCTION 1 1 The Changing Field of Women’s and Gender Studies 3 Nancy A. Naples PART II D IVERSITY OF ACADEMIC FIELDS AND INSTITUTIONAL FORMATIONS 23 2 Women’s Studies 25 Clara Montague and Ashwini Tambe 3 Gender Studies 41 William J. Scarborough and Barbara J. Risman 4 Masculinities Studies 69 Melanie Lee 5 Trans Studies 93 Cristina Khan and Kolbe Franklin PART III SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND PSYCHOLOGY 111 6 Science, Technology, and Gender 113 Sara P. Díaz 7 Gender Bias in Research 139 Meg Upchurch 8 Reproductive Practices, Society, and the State 155 Anna Kuxhausen 9 Gender and Disability Studies 175 Linda M. Blum vi CONTENTS 10 Gender and Psychology 195 Thekla Morgenroth and Avelie Stuart PART IV CULTURE 213 11 Gender Ideology, Socialization, and Culture 215 Pamela Bettis, Paula Groves Price, Courtney P. Benjamin and Eun‐Jeong Han 12 Gender and Religion 235 Caryn D. Riswold 13 Gender and Media 253 Audrey S. Gadzekpo and Marquita S. Smith 14 Women, Gender, and Popular Culture 271 Andrew J. Young and Dustin Kidd 15 Gender‐Based Violence and Rape Culture 285 Brian N. Sweeney PART V POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 303 16 Gender and Occupational Segregation 305 Yan Ling Anne Wong and Maria Charles 17 Gender Discrimination Policy 327 Donna Bobbitt‐Zeher 18 Global Care Chains 347 Rosalba Todaro and Irma Arriagada 19 Gender and Environmental Studies 365 Mary Buchanan, Phoebe Godfrey and Emily Kaufman PART VI SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 385 20 Gender and Collective Action 387 Jennifer E. Cossyleon and Kyle R. Woolley 21 Women’s Movements 409 Almudena Cabezas González and Marisa Revilla‐Blanco 22 Right‐Wing Women’s Movements 427 Daniela Mansbach and Alisa Von Hagel 23 Men’s Movements 447 Cliff Leek and Markus Gerke 24 Transgender Movements 463 Salvador Vidal‐Ortiz Index 481 Editors Editor Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She served as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her publications includes over 50 book chapters and journal articles in a wide array of interdisciplinary and sociological journals. She is author of Grassroots Warriors: Community Work, Activist Mothering and the War on Poverty and Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research. She is editor of Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender; and coeditor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization; Teaching Feminist Praxis; Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics; and The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú. She is series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action published by SUNY Press and Editor‐in‐Chief of the five‐volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her awards include the 2015 Jessie Bernard Award for distin- guished contributions to women and gender studies from the American Sociological Association and the 2014 Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She also received the 2010 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2011 Feminist Mentor Award from Sociologists for Women in Society and the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ 2011 Excellence in Research for Social Sciences and Alumni Association’s 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research. She is currently working on a book on sexual citizenship. Managing Editor Cristina Khan is a lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut in 2019 with a certificate in Feminist viii Editors Studies. Her specializations include race, ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color,” draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in‐depth interviews with a collective of les- bian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality together shape women’s potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. Her research on “Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry” has been published in Gender & Society. She is also coauthor of Race and Sexuality (Polity Press 2018). Her research experience includes serving as a consultant on diversity and equity initiatives at the New York City Department of Education, and as a research assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Laura Mauldin, on cochlear implant usage and experience amongst families. Notes on Contributors Irma Arriagada is a Chilean Sociologist and Visiting Researcher at the Women’s Studies Centre (CEM) and an international consultant for the United Nations. Arriagada worked at United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from 1993 to 2008 and has published more than 70 papers and edited 5 books. Recent publications: “The Social Organization of Care in Chile” co‐author Francisca Miranda in Care and Care Workers. A Latin American Perspective, Nadya Araujo y Helena Hirata (eds.) Springer (in press) “Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families”, in Judy Treas, Jacqueline Scott, and Martin Richards, The Sociology of Families, Wiley‐Blackwell books, Cambridge, England, 2014. Courtney P. Benjamin received her PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education program at Washington State University. She is Associate Editor for the Western Journal of Black Studies, and Research Assistant for NSF‐funded ADVANCE at WSU. Her work illuminates how gender intersects with race and social class, and she is particularly interested in the critical inquiry and discourse analyses of STEM participation at both the K‐12 and higher education level. Pamela Bettis is a faculty member in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education doctoral program at Washington State University (U.S.A.). Her research explores the intersection of gender, race, youth cultures and schooling with the goal of constructing more equitable schooling experiences for all youth/adults. She is par- ticularly interested in the common sense discourses of gender and race found in everyday social practices and popular culture. Linda M. Blum, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University (Boston, US), is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (1991); At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (1999); and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (2015), the 2016 Outstanding Publication of the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association. x NotEs oN CoNtriBUtors Donna Bobbitt‐Zeher is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on contemporary gender inequality, with an emphasis on work- place discrimination and later life consequences of gender differences in schooling. Mary Buchanan is a doctoral candidate in the Geography Department of the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on exploring alternative landscape futures for sustainable agriculture in New England. Almudena Cabezas González is a Lecturer in Political Geography in the Department of History, Theories and Political Geography and School of Political Sciences and Sociology at UCM, Madrid. She received her PhD in Political Science in 2008. Her research focuses on regionalism, feminist geopolitics, gender and Latin American studies. She is a member of “Space & Power” Research Team. Maria Charles is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Broom Demography Center, and faculty affiliate of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores how and why gender‐based inequalities dif- fer across national and historical contexts. Charles is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and recipient of numerous research awards and grants for her comparative work on gender segregation and gender belief systems around the world. Jennifer E. Cossyleon PhD, is a Policy Advisor at Community Change through the Mellon/ ACLS Public Fellowship program. Cossyleon studies urban poverty and inequality, grassroots social movements among marginalized groups, and the social effects of mobilization on families and communities. Some of her work has been pub- lished in Socius, Sociological Forum, City & Community, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and The Sociological Quarterly. Sara P. Dıá z is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Using feminist cultural studies of science, Díaz studies the complex relationships between science, gender, race, and the politics of the body. Her current scholarship examines the intersections of fatness, disability, and chronic illness. builds on U.S. third world feminist theories to examine the intel- lectual survival strategies used by women of color scientists. Her other scholarly interests include gender, race and twentieth-century science; feminist cultural studies of health sciences, feminist research ethics; feminist epistemologies; feminist environ- mental justice; and critical mixed race studies. Kolbe Franklin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany – SUNY where she teaches courses on gender and sexualities. She is currently conducting research for her dissertation titled, “Queering Sexual Development Frameworks: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Conceptualizing Other‐Sex Sexuality Among Lesbians” which focuses on the experiences of lesbians who engage in relationships with cisgender and transgender men. Audrey S. Gadzekpo, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana and Dean of the School of Information NotEs oN CoNtriBUtors xi and Communication Studies. She has years of experience in teaching, research and advocacy on media, gender and governance, as well as practical experience as a media practitioner. Her recent publications on gender include: Media and Gender Socialization (2016) in The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Establishing the Presence of Women in Ghanaian Media History (2015) in Ansu‐Kyeremeh, K., Gadzekpo A. and Amoakohene, M. (eds.), A Critical Appraisal of Communication Theory and Practice in Ghana. University of Ghana Reader Series. Markus Gerke is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at Stony Brook University and a research associate at the Institute of Sports Science at Justus‐Liebig‐ Universität in Gießen, Germany. Phoebe Godfrey, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Residence of Sociology at UConn and teaches courses on food, climate change, sustainability and social justice. Eun‐Jeong Han received a Ph.D. in Communication from the Washington State University. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication arts at Salisbury University, MD. The main area of her research and teaching is Intercultural Communication. is diversity and social justice in a global context. Specifically, her research interests include the issues of; 1) multiculturalism and diversity in contem- porary Korean society, 2) Korean diaspora 3) Asian-Americans in the U.S., and 4) stereotypes and prejudices against minorities. Emily Kaufman is an undergraduate honors student at the University of Connecticut majoring in Environmental Studies and Sociology with a minor in Geographic Information Systems. Specifically, her areas of interest are environmental justice edu- cation and sustainability. Cristina Khan is a lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at SUNY Stony Brook. She earned her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her specializations include race & ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color,” draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in‐depth interviews with a collective of lesbian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality, together, shape women’s potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. She is co‐author of “Race and Sexuality” (Polity Press 2018). Dustin Kidd, PhD, is a pop culture expert and a professor in the sociology department at Temple University. His research examines film, television, fiction, social media, comics, video games, music, and the arts, focusing on both inequal- ities and the ways marginalized groups use media to challenge those inequalities. He is the author of the books Social Media Freaks, Pop Culture Freaks, and Legislating Creativity. Anna Kuxhausen is Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College. She is the author of From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment
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