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.

Gender Panic, Gender Policy is an important, thought-provoking addition to exploration of the most recent controversial issues in gender studies. “Gender panic” is an excellent concept for the visceral negative responses to the LBGTQ challenges to the gender binary in major social institutions, such as the military and sports. International in scope, this collection of original essays addresses instances of structural regulation and violence toward non-binary individuals as well as probing the problematics of seemingly egalitarian laws. I highly recommend it for all those who want to keep up with today’s social changes.

• Part 1: Tradition, Women, And The Place of Reproduction1. Women in The Military in Argentina: Nationalism, Gender and Ethnicity; Laura E. Masson2. Women's Health—Nation's Health: The Policies of Reproduction in Post-Soviet Belarus; Tatsiana Shchurko3. In Another Science War: Fictitious Evidence on Women’s Fertility and the "Egg Aging" Panic in 2010s Japan; Sigeto Tanaka4. Boys will be Boys, So Girls will be Girls: The Resurgence of Femininity Among Single Women; Summer QassimPart 2: Questioning The Gender Binary5. Subverting the Dominant Paradigm: Cross Cultural Approaches to Understanding Gender; Edwin S. Segal6. "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 Erikainen8. The Fairest of Them All: Gender-Determining Institutions and the Science of Sex Testing; Madeleine PapePart 3: Policing Gender: Rules, Regulations, and Laws9. "Dear Colleague Letter On Transgender Students": Title Ix Rights and Regulations On Gender; Kj Teut10. 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 Womack13. Monitoring the World Society: LGBT Human Rights in Russia and Sweden; Danielle MacCartney