Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation write by Tania Ferfolja. This book was released on 2020-05-10. Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoing impact of broader socio-cultural discourse on the lives of gender and sexuality diverse students and teachers. Beginning with an overview of the impact of how a culture of limitation is realised in Australia, the focus moves beyond this context to examine state and federal policies from comparable societies in countries including the USA and the UK and their effect on the production of knowledges and what’s permissible to include in educational curriculum. This research-driven book thus provides a comparative, international overview of the current state of gender and sexuality diversity in schools, and convincingly demonstrates that despite some empowerment of gender and sexuality diverse individuals, silencing and marginalization remain powerful forces. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, academics, professionals, and policy makers interested in the field of gender and sexuality in education. It is essential reading for those involved in pre-service and in-service teacher education, diversity education, the sociology of education, as well as education more generally.
Gender Diversity
Gender Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Diversity write by Serena Nanda. This book was released on 2014-01-22. Gender Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropologist Serena Nanda has heralded the importance of understanding human similarities and differences throughout her writing and teaching career. This was especially evidenced in her groundbreaking work, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, a masterful, far-reaching examination of the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality and how they are culturally constructed. Rich ethnographic examples representing nine cultures illuminate the need to analyze sex/gender roles and identities on the basis of broad cultural patterns and distinct cultural features, including social class, ethnicity, age, religion, urban or rural residence, and exposure to Western cultures. The latest edition incorporates new material on hijras in Bangladesh, three gender alternatives in Indonesia, and global changes related to migration, health, and communication. Concept-reinforcing questions have been added to each chapter. Gender Diversity, Second Edition encourages readers to think in new ways about what they consider natural, normal, or morally right. As a concise supplement with multidisciplinary appeal, the enhanced edition is sure to energize the undergraduate classroom.
Sex, Culture, and Justice
Sex, Culture, and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex, Culture, and Justice write by Clare Chambers. This book was released on 2010-11. Sex, Culture, and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to participate in practices of sexual inequality&—cosmetic surgery, gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive clothing, or the sexual subordination required by membership in certain religious groups. In this book, Clare Chambers argues that this predicament poses a fundamental challenge to many existing liberal and multicultural theories that dominate contemporary political philosophy. Chambers argues that a theory of justice cannot ignore the influence of culture and the role it plays in shaping choices. If cultures shape choices, it is problematic to use those choices as the measure of the justice of the culture. Drawing upon feminist critiques of gender inequality and poststructuralist theories of social construction, she argues that we should accept some of the multicultural claims about the importance of culture in shaping our actions and identities, but that we should reach the opposite normative conclusion to that of multiculturalists and many liberals. Rather than using the idea of social construction to justify cultural respect or protection, we should use it to ground a critical stance toward cultural norms. The book presents radical proposals for state action to promote sexual and cultural justice.
Doing Gender Diversity
Doing Gender Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doing Gender Diversity write by Rebecca F. Plante,Lis M. Mau. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Doing Gender Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Transforming the Normative
Transforming the Normative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming the Normative write by Jaime Becker. This book was released on 2013. Transforming the Normative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender, sex, and sexuality diversity has become more visible both culturally and legislatively in the last decade in the United States. The rights of people to not experience discrimination based on gender identity and presentation as well as to marry those of their own sex and/or gender have been legislated in a fast growing number of states and are being hotly debated throughout the country. The medical and psychological guidelines for "treating" intersex, transgender, and sexually queer individuals are evolving to become more "patient-centered." Sex, gender and sexually queer people are being talked and written about, but not often heard from. This dissertation focuses on the lived experiences of gender variant people with regard to their complex identities, their interactions both with people they know and strangers, and the macro-social structures that deny their very existence. I collected data through forty-three semi-structured interviews with transgender, genderqueer, and other gender non-conforming people as well as spending more than two years in the field. I use a grounded theory approach and find a great deal of diversity in my sample. Research participants self-identified in multiple ways placing varying levels of importance on their gender identities. Notably, the narratives through which they explain their gender journeys bear little resemblance to the transnormative "I was born in the wrong body" medicalized story. Rather, participants recognize that Western culture and institutions are currently unwilling to accommodate their lived experience. This research argues for increased knowledge of human sex diversity as ignorance of the non-binary nature of human sex is in large part what fuels cultural understandings of binary gender and sexuality. Institutional rules and norms codifying these binaries will change through activism and scholarship designed to change cultural understandings in order to accommodate empirical diversity. I argue that an important component of this change process will be taking an interdisciplinary approach to correct binary assumptions of sex, gender, and sexuality in a wide variety of research on "sex differences" as well as in clinical practice.
