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Book SynopsisDiscourses 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.
Trade ReviewSociologists, 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) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gendered Institutions and Cultural Practices: Still Chasing the Legacy of Sandra Bem Contextualizing Bem: The Developmental Social Psychology of Masculinity and Femininity Insights into the Vietnamese Culture of Gender: Factors Hindering Academic Women’s Advancement To Leadership Positions How College Students Perceive Men’s and Women’s Advantages and Disadvantages Surrounding Work and Family Issues Gendered Career Choices and Stereotypes: A Theoretical Approach Drinking Like a Man: How Gender Norms Influence College Students’ Perceptions of Binge Drinkers For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel Masculinity and ‘Generational Poverty’ in a Faith-Based Homelessness Advocacy Program: Race and Class Viewed Through the ‘Lenses of Gender’
