The Gender/Sexuality Reader

by Roger Lancaster (Editor), Micaela di Leonardo (Editor)

The Gender/Sexuality Reader is a sophisticated survey which contextualizes gender and sexuality in a matrix of varied racial formations, nationalisms, colonialisms, imperialisms and movements for social change. Contributors Lila Abu-Lughod, Janice Boddy, Susan Bordo, Judith Butler, Jane Collier, Jane L. Collins, Teresa de Lauretis, Janadas Devan, Micaela di Leonardo, John D'Emilio, Ann Fausto-Sterling, Susan Gal, David F. Greenberg, Matthew Gutman, Jacalyn D. Harden, Lori L. Heise, Geraldine Heng, Darlene Clark Hine, Evelyn Fox Keller, Roger Lancaster, Thomas Laqueur, Catherine A. Lutz, Emily Martin, Richard Parker, Cindy Patton, Rosalind Petchesky, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Rayna Rapp, Michelle Rosaldo, Ellen Ross, Lousia Schein, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Amartya Sen, Elizabeth Sheehan, Siobhan Somerville, Susan Sperling, Judith Stacey, Arlene Stein, Ann Stoler, Carole S. Vance, Sylvia Yanagisako, and Patricia Zavella.

Genres: Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality, Sociology, Feminism, Nonfiction

584 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 1997

Reviews

[Zoë · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some great essays in this volume. I particularly enjoyed the following...

---Ann Stoler on 'Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power'
---Siobhan Somerville on 'Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body'
---Micaela di Leonardo on 'Rape, Race, and the Black "Underclass"'
---Ross and Rapp on 'Sex and Society'
---Matthew C. Gutmann on 'Men's Sex and Potency in Mexico'
---Patricia Zavella on 'The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality'
---Lori L. Heise on 'Violence, Sexuality and Women's Lives'
---and Darlene Clark Hine on 'Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West'