Gender Panic, Gender Policy

Vasilikie Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Morris, USA, co-editor of Emerald’s Advances in Gender Research series, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and Co-Chair of the SWS subcommittee on the Convention on the Elimination All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). She is the recipient of the 2008 Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award. Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita at Indiana University Southeast, USA. She is co-editor of Emerald’s Advances in Gender Research series. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Opportunities in Retirement Network at the International Sociological Association, and has received the SWS Mentorship Award and the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award.

This collection of recent research on gender policy in the US and other developed nations uses various methods, such as fieldwork and online data, offering interpretations from different perspectives, such as feminist critical discourse and queer theory. Contributors come from disciplines including law, sociology, social policy, anthropology, women’s studies, and gender studies. Major themes are traditional gender roles, the place of reproduction, questioning the gender binary, and rules, regulations, and laws related to gender. Some specific topics include Title IX rights and gender in US education, non-binary gender markers in Australian law and policy, sex testing in elite sports 1937-68, and a comparison of LGBT human rights in Russia and Sweden.

• Part 1: Tradition, Women, And The Place of Reproduction1. Women in The Military in Argentina: Nationalism, Gender and Ethnicity; Laura E. Masson 2. Women's Health—Nation's Health: The Policies of Reproduction in Post-Soviet Belarus; Tatsiana Shchurko 3. In Another Science War: Fictitious Evidence on Women’s Fertility and the "Egg Aging" Panic in 2010s Japan; Sigeto Tanaka 4. Boys will be Boys, So Girls will be Girls: The Resurgence of Femininity Among Single Women; Summer Qassim Part 2: Questioning The Gender Binary 5. Subverting the Dominant Paradigm: Cross Cultural Approaches to Understanding Gender; Edwin S. Segal 6. "I'm Part of the Community, Too": Women's College Alumnae Responses to Transgender Admittance Policies; Megan Nanney7. Hybrids, Hermaphrodites, and Sex Metamorphoses: Gendered Anxieties and Sex Testing in Elite Sport, 1937-1968; Sonja Erikainen  8. The Fairest of Them All: Gender-Determining Institutions and the Science of Sex Testing; Madeleine Pape Part 3: Policing Gender: Rules, Regulations, and Laws 9. "Dear Colleague Letter On Transgender Students": Title Ix Rights and Regulations On Gender; Kj Teut  10. The Normativity of Recognition: Non-Binary Gender Markers in Australian Law and Policy; Dylan Amy Davis11. Gendered Prisons, Gendered Policy: Gendered Subtext and the Prison Rape Elimination Act; Allison N. Gorga and Nicole Bouxsein Oehmen12. The United States' International Valuing of Anti-Racism Norms over Gender Equality Norms; Malia Lee Womack 13. Monitoring the World Society: LGBT Human Rights in Russia and Sweden; Danielle MacCartney