Seeing Straight

An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege

AvJean Halley,Amy Eshleman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. After an accessible overview, the book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender identities as “normal,” as well as the problems of treating queer gender and sexuality as “abnormal.” Compelling real-life examples illustrate theory and empirical research, revealing phenomena that shape not only students’ own lives, but also their communities, their country, and the field of gender studies itself. The book addresses tough topics like hate, violence, and privilege, and it also considers institutionalized heteronormativity through the military, law, religion, and more. The book ends with a chapter called “It’s Getting Better” that presents evidence for queer hope and courage. Filled with compelling true stories, this book is an ideal introduction to gender and sexuality that encourages students to question their own assumptions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-29
Mått:157 x 237 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442233539
Utmärkelser:ALA GLBT Over the Rainbow 2018 Recommended Reading List

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jean Halley is associate professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. She served as the advisor for the Gay-Straight Alliance while at Wagner College and has taught extensively in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of several books, including Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy and The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets.Amy Eshleman is professor of psychology at Wagner College, where she regularly teaches courses on gender, sexuality, race, social class, and prejudice. Together, Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman are the authors of Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, with Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya.

Recensioner i media

Seeing Straight is a rewarding—and challenging—book designed to take the young adult from passive acceptance of gender norms and sex roles, through the long and exciting history of awakening of identity, sexuality, dissent, freedom, and into adult respect for the variety of humanity. The volume covers stereotyping and prejudice, sex and gender, queer theory, gender privilege and heteronormativity, what is normal, what is deviant, what is queer and what is courage. The authors emphasize opportunity, empowerment, sex positivity, and the costs of gender and sexual oppression. This book will improve the lives of the students who read it.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Privileged Thinking: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality2. Privileged Assumptions: Heterosexuality and the Normative Expression of Gender3. Privileged Power, Hate, and Heteronormativity4. Fifty Ways to Be Normal and Other Challenges to Privilege5. Institutionalized Heteronormativity: Military, Law, and Religion6. Privileged (Popular) Culture and Internalized Expectations7. Violence, Aggression, and Privilege8. It’s Getting Better: Queer Hope, Queer Courage