Gender in Society Reader

Amy Kaler received her PhD in Sociology and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Population Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a Master of Arts in Administration and Policy Studies in Education, a Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, all from McGill University. She has received the Faculty of Arts Research Excellence Award at both the assistant professor and associate professor levels. Her research has focused on sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to the cultural, social and institutional dimensions of public health interventions.

• Preface Introduction Part One: Gendered Ways of Knowing 1: Doing Gender Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman 2: The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity Susan Bordo 3: Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee 4: What is Intersectionality? Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge Part Two: Gender, Racism, and Racialization 5: Culture Talk and the Politics of the New Right: Navigating Gendered Racism in Attempts to Address Violence against Women in Immigrant Communities Salina Abji, Anna C. Korteweg, and Lawrence H. William 6: Others in Their Own Land: Second-Generation South Asian Canadian Women, Racism, and the Persistence of Colonial Discourse Angela Aujla 7: Gender Identity and Integration: Second-Generation Somali Immigrants Navigating Gender in Canada Ahmad Karimi, Sandra M. Bucerius and Sara Thompson 8: 'Strange Faces' in the Academy: Experiences of Racialized and Indigenous Faculty in Canadian Universities Tameera Mohamed and Brenda L. Beagan 9: On (Not) Losing My Religion: Interrogating Gendered Forms of White Virtue in Pre-Possessed Countries Fiona Nicoll Part Three: Gendered Bodies 10: Playing Like a Girl? The Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Identity Among Female Ice Hockey Athletes on Male Teams Danielle DiCarlo 11: Exploring Male Femininity in the "Crisis": Men and Cosmetic Surgery Michael Atkinson 12: Indigenous Girls' Resilience in Settler States: Honouring Body and Land Sovereignty Sandrina de Finney 13: Sex and Gender Diversity Among Transgender Persons in Ontario, Canada: Results from a Respondent-Driven Sampling Survey Ayden I. Scheim and Greta R. Bauer Part Four: Gendered Sexualities 14: Losing It: Similarities and Differences in First Intercourse Experiences of Men and Women Lily Tsui and Elena Nicoladis 15: "It Just Happens": Negotiating Casual Heterosexual Sex Melanie Beres 16: Love-Politics: Lesbian Wedding Practices in Canada and the United States from the 1920s to the 1970s Elise Chenier 17: Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Trans Men Navigating Sexual Fields Ayden I. Scheim, Barry D. Adam, and Zack Marshall 18: "Incorrigible slag," the case of Jennifer Murphy's HIV non-disclosure: Gender norm policing and the production of gender-class-race categories in Canadian news coverage Jenny Roth and Chris Sanders Part Five: Gendered Families 19: The Motherhood Sacrifice: Maternal Experiences of Child Care in the Canadian Context Rebecca M. Horne and Rhonda S. Breitkreuz 20: Transnational Familial Strategies, Social Reproduction, and Migration: Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada Guida Man and Elena Chou 21: "Here's My Story": Fathers of "Looked After" Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System Lena Dominelli, Susan Strega, Chris Walmsley, Marilyn Callahan, and Leslie Brown 22: Feelings of Distance and Proximity: Exploring the Emotional Geographies of Men Caregiving for Family Members with Multiple Chronic Conditions Melissa Giesbrecht, Allison Williams, Wendy Duggleby, Bharthi Sethi, Jenny Ploeg, and Maureen Markle-Reid Part Six: Gendered Classroom 23: Transphobia and Cisgender Privilege: Pre-Service Teachers Recognizing and Challenging Gender Rigidity in Schools Laura-Lee Kearns, Jennifer Mitton-Kükner, and Joanne Tompkins 24: Gendered Harassment in Secondary Schools: Understanding Teachers' (Non) Interventions Elizabeth J. Meyer 25: Contested Spaces: Trans-Inclusive School Policies and Parental Sovereignty in Canada Lindsay Herriot, David P. Burns, and Betty Yeung 26: Race, Racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian Universities Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Audrey Kobayashi, Carl James, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, and Malinda S. Smith Part Seven: The Gendered Workplace 27: No Longer "One of the Boys": Negotiations with Motherhood, as Prospect or Reality, among Women in Engineering Gillian Ranson 28: Gendered Strategies of the Self: Navigating Hierarchy and Contesting Masculinities Shelley Pacholok 29: "Caught in the Same Webs" - Service Providers' Insights on Gender-Based and Structural Violence Among Female Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada Chantal Robillard, Janet McLaughlin, Donald C. Cole, Biljana Vasilevska, and Richard Gendron 30: Gender and Workplace Bullying: Men's Experiences of Surviving Bullying at Work Sue M. O'Donnell and Judith A. MacIntosh Part Eight: Gender and Media 31: Globalization, Corporate Nationalism, and Masculinity in Canada: Sport, Molson Beer Advertising, and Consumer Citizenship Steven Jackson 32: 'Beauty and bullets': A Content Analysis of Female Offenders and Victims in Four Canadian Newspapers Rachael E. Collins 33: The Gender Binary Will Not Be Deprogrammed: Ten Years of Coding Gender on Facebook Rena Bivens 34: The Construction of Gender in Dating Apps: An Interface Analysis of Tinder and Bumble Caitlin MacLeod and Victoria McArthur Part Nine: Gender and Violence 35: Expert Evidence on Coercive Control in Support of Self-Defence: The Trial of Teresa Craig Elizabeth Sheehy 36: Intimate Male Partner Violence in the Migration Process: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class Sepali Guruge, Nazilla Khanlou, and Denise Gastaldo 37: The State is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty Audra Simpson Part Ten: Gendered Activism 38: Organizing Baristas in Halifax Cafes: Precarious Work and Gender and Class Identities in the Millennial Generation Rachel K. Brickner and Meaghan Dalton 39: #MeToo and the Promise and Pitfalls of Challenging Rape Culture Through Digital Feminist Activism Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller 40: The Transformative and Radical Feminism of Grassroots Migrant Women's Movement(s) in Canada Ethel Tungohan 41: Idle No More - Indigenous Activism and Feminism Sonja John Credits