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Sociology 547: Gender and Sexuality
Professor Karin A. Martin
Winter 2014
Office: 4126 LSA
936-0525
[email protected]
This course will offer an introduction to theory and empirical research in the sociology of gender
and sexuality. It will assist students in preparing for the Gender and Sexuality prelim exam,
although the course will be useful for anyone with interests in these areas. We will review some
of the classic pieces in the subfield as well as attend to what’s new, emerging, and exciting. We
will focus on the theoretical perspectives and analytical tools that offer sociologists the most
assistance in developing empirical research.
Required Readings
Dude, You’re a Fag, by C. J. Pascoe, University of California Press, 2007
Just One of the Guys, by Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago Press, 2010
Framed by Gender, by Cecilia Ridgeway, Oxford University Press, 2011
Not Under My Roof, by Amy Schalet, University of California Press, 2012
All other readings listed below are available via Ctools.
Assignments
 Class participation (20%): You must do all the readings, come to class ready to discuss, ask
questions, and engage the material in relevant and constructive ways.
 Presentation/seminar leader for a day (20%): Read, meet with Karin, prepare presentation
and organize discussion for the day.
 Post 2 thoughtful discussion questions weekly (10%) on the CTools Forum by 8pm the
night before class. You don’t have to post the day you are presenting or for 1/14.
 EXAM (50%): This will be a practice prelim exam given during the scheduled exam
period. Students who have already taken the prelims can discuss a paper option with me.
Introductions
1/14 Studying Gender and Sexuality in Sociology
Rosenberg, Karen Esther and Judith A. Howard. 2008. "Finding Feminist Sociology: A Review
Essay." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33(3): 675-696.
Stacey, Judith. 1988. "Can there Be a Feminist Ethnography?" Pp. 111-119 in Women's Worlds:
The Feminist Practice of Oral History, edited by S. Gluck and D. Patai. New York:
Routledge.
Gamson, Joshua and Dawne Moon. 2004. “The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond,”
Annual Review of Sociology. 30:47–64
Rupp, Leila and Verta Taylor. 2005. "When the Girls Are Men: Negotiating Gender and Sexual
Dynamics in a Study of Drag Queens." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
30(4): 2115-2139.
I. GENDER
1/21 Gender: Individual and Interactionist Approaches
Chodorow, Nancy. 1989. Introduction: Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. In Feminism and
Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Recommended: Chodorow, Nancy. 1989. “Oedipal Asymmetries and Heterosexual Knots.” Pp. 66-78 in
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. "Doing Gender." Gender & Society 1(2): 125 151.
Recommended, but optional: West, Candace and Sarah Fenstermaker. 1995. "Doing Difference." Gender
& Society 9(1): 8-37.
Collins, Patricia Hill, Lionel A. Maldonado, Dana Y. Takagi, Barrie Thorne, Lynn Weber, and
Howard Winant. 1995. "Symposium on West and Fenstermaker's "Doing Difference"." Gender &
Society 9(4): 491-506.
Thorne, Barrie. 1993. “Ch 5, Creating a Sense of Opposite Sides,” from Gender Play: Girls and
Boys in School. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Martin, Karin. 1998. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools,” American
Sociological Review 63(4): 494-511.
1/28 Gender: Expectation States Theory and Institutional Approaches
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. 2011. Framed by Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recommended: Correll, Shelly J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. "Getting a Job: Is There a
Motherhood Penalty?" American Journal of Sociology 112(5): 1297-1338.
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney. 2006. "Sexual Assault on
Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape." Social Problems 53(4): 483499.
2/4 Gender: Intersectional Approaches
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge. Chapter 11
McCall, Leslie. 2005. "The Complexity of Intersectionality." Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society 30(3): 1771-1800.
Bettie, Julie. 2000. “Women without Class: Chicas, Cholas, Trash, and the Presence/Absence of Class
Identity” Signs 26:1-35.
Penner, Andrew and Aliya Saperstein. 2013. Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional
Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race, Gender & Society, Vol. 27 No. 3, p 319344
II. SEXUALITY
2/11 Sexuality: Overviews and Classics
Stein, Arlene. 1989. "Three Models of Sexuality: Drives, Identities, Practices." Sociological
Theory 7(1):1-13.
Rubin, Gayle. 1993[1984]. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of
Sexuality." Pp. 3-44 in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by H. Abelove, M.
Barale, and D. Halperin. New York: Routledge.
Freud, Sigmund. 1949[1910]. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.
(p.1-28)
Recommended but optional: Chodorow, Nancy. 1994. "Heterosexuality as a Compromise Formation." Pp.
33-69 in Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond. Lexington, KY: The University
Press of Kentucky.
Simon, William and John Gagnon. 1973/2005. Sexual Conduct: Social Sources of Human
Sexuality. Ch. 1 and afterward by Gagnon.
2/18 Sexuality: Cultural Approaches
Schalet, Amy. 2011. Not Under My Roof. Berkeley, CA: UC Press.
Harding, David S. 2007. “Cultural Context, Sexual Behavior, and Romantic Relationships in
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” American Sociological Review 72(3): 341-364.
2/25 Sexuality: Intersecting Race and Class
Nagel, Joane. 2003. Intro and Ch1 “Sex Matters: Racing Sex and Sexing Race” in Race,
Ethnicity,and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Nagel, Joane. 2000. "Ethnicity & Sexuality," Annual Review of Sociology.
Moore, Mignon, “Lipstick or Timberlands: Meanings of Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian
Communities,” Signs 2006.
Green, Adam Isaiah. 2007. “On the Horns of a Dilemma: Institutional Dimensions of the Sexual
Career in a Sample of Middle-Class, Urban Black Gay Men.” The Journal of Black
Studies. 37, 5:753-774.
3/11 Sexuality: Field Approaches
Green, Adam I. 2011. Playing the (Sexual) Field: The Interactional Basis of Systems of Sexual
Stratification. Social Psych Quarterly. 74:3, p. 244-266.
Farrer, James. 2010. “A Foreign Adventurer’s Paradise? Interracial Sexuality and Alien Sexual
Capital in Reform Era Shanghai,” Sexualities. 13:1, p. 69-95.
Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams. 2013. Sexual Field, Erotic Habitus, and Embodiment
at a Transgender Bar. In Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life,
edited by Adam Isiah Green. Chicago: U Chicago Press.
III. GENDER, SEXUALITY AND….
3/18 Gender, Sexuality, and Transgender :
KRISTEN SCHILT WILL VISIT CLASS
Arlene Stein, “The Incredible Shrinking Lesbian World and other Queer Conundra,” Sexualities
2010 13: 21.
Schilt, Kristen. 2010. Just One of the Guys: Transgender men and the Persistence of Gender
Inequality. Chicago: U Chicago Press.
3/25 Gender, Sexuality and Who Does Paid Work, Housework, and Childcare?
Hochschild, Arlie. 1989. Ch 2, 4, 5, from The Second Shift. New York: Viking Press.
Carrington, Christopher.1999. “Feeding Lesbigay Families,” from No Place Like Home.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Moore, Mignon. 2008. "Gendered Power Relations among Women: A Study of Household
Decision-Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies." American Sociological Review, vol
73,2(Apr.): 335-356.
Pfeffer, Carla. 2010. “‘‘Women’s Work’’? Women Partners Of Transgender Men Doing
Housework and Emotion Work” Journal of Marriage and the Family.
4/1 Gender, Sexuality, and Parenting
Martin, Karin A. 2009. “Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk, and
Strategies with Young Children.” American Sociological Review, 74 (2):190-207.
Kane, Emily. 2006. “No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That”: Parents’ Responses to
Children’s Gender Nonconformity. Gender & Society, 20:2, p. 149-176.
McGuffey, C. Shawn. 2008. “Saving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race and
Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse.” Social Problems 55 (2): 216-237.
Meadow, Tey. 2011. “Deep down where the music plays’: How parents account for childhood
gender variance.” Sexualities. 14(6), p. 725-747.
Recommended: Stacey and Bilbarz, ASR
4/8 No Class : read for next week
4/15 Gender and Sexuality in Youth
Pascoe, C.J. 2007. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley,
CA: UC Press
Garcia, Lorena. 2009. “ ‘Now Why Do You Want to Know About That?’: Heteronormativity,
Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)Education of Latina Youth.” Gender & Society
23(4): 520-541.
Recommended: Garcia, Lorena. Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself.
Carrillo, Hector. 2011. Rethinking sexual initiation: pathways to identity formation among gay
and bisexual Mexican male youth. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40(6):1241-54. doi:
10.1007/s10508-010-9672-6. Epub 2010 Sep 14.
4/21 Prelim Practice, Prelim Discussion, Exam Review
FINAL EXAM TIME SLOT: Thursday May 1 1:30-3:30.