Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality
The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem
Marla Kohlman editor Dana Balsink Krieg editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:6th Oct '17
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Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bemfocuses on emerging discourses on gender, gender roles, and gender schemas. This collection of essays aims to honor the legacy of Sandra Lipsitz Bem and, particularly, her trail-blazing text, The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. Long before the terms transgender and cisgender were introduced into mainstream, academic, and activist discourses on gender, Bem was busy interrogating the use of gender as an essential organizing principle in society.Chapters in this volume aim to draw attention to the significance of Bem’s research for current debates on gender and gender roles in the social sciences, questioning the ways in which the institution of gender has been, and remains, deeply contested. Contributors examine lived experiences of individuals influenced by institutional constructions of gender and examine practical aspects of gender from the perspectives of social policy.
Sociologists, psychologists, and other academics from the US and Vietnam present seven essays in honor of feminist psychologist Sandra Bem. They explore institutional intersections between gender and family, educational settings, the labor market, and social services, considering Bem’s conception of gender as a central organizing feature of society and viewing gender as an outcome and agent of determination. They discuss the developmental social psychology of masculinity and femininity; the career choices of young Russian women; influences on occupational paths of mid-career women in Vietnam; the gendered ideas of family that inform social service providers’ interactions with clients; the expectations of college students about career and family balance; and the influence of gender norms and heteronormativity on leisure activities, particularly drinking behaviors in college (with application of the Bem Sex Roles Inventory) and traditional gender roles in romance novels. They interpret their research findings through Bem’s “lenses of gender” and address androcentrism, biological essentialism, and polarization. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
ISBN: 9781787431973
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192 pages