Doing Gender Diversity: Readings in Theory and Real-World Experience - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813344379 ISBN 13: 9780813344379

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself - how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions. In order to avoid balkanization, the authors examine the various ways in which culture intersects with individuals to produce the range of presentations of self that we call 'gender', from people born male who become adult men to lesbian women to transmen, and everyone else on the diverse gender spectrum.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebecca F. Plante is associate professor of sociology at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Plante has written Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective (Westview, 2006) and coedited (with Michael S. Kimmel) Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (Oxford, 2004).

Lis M. Maurer is the founding coordinator of The Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Maurer has been a sexuality educator, consultant, and trainer for more than twenty years.

Review:

"Gender is a big topic to tackle. But if any new book on the subject were to find a place for itself in the queer academic canon, Doing Gender Diversity surely would be it." --Curve, April 2010 - Rachel Pepper

...a skillfully edited collection of eye-opening accounts of gender issues from multiple perspectives.... Everyone can take something away from Doing Gender Diversity. --Feminist Review, November 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813344379
• ISBN 13: 9780813344379
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 572
• Editor: Rebecca F. Plante, Lis M. Maurer