Gender Norms and Intersectionality - 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 Norms and Intersectionality write by Riki Wilchins. This book was released on 2019-03-25. Gender Norms and Intersectionality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There have been few, if any, attempts to translate the immense library of academic studies on gender norms for a lay audience, or to illustrate practical ways in which their insights could (and should) be applied. Similarly, there have been few attempts to build the case for gender in diverse fields like health, education, and economic security within a single book, one which also uses an intersectional lens to address issues of race and class. This book not only looks at the impact of rigid gender norms on young people who internalize them, but also shows how the health, educational, and criminal justice systems with which young people interact are also highly gendered systems that relentlessly police and sustain very narrow ideas of masculinity and femininity, particularly among youth. Current treatments of a “gender lens” or “gender analysis” both at home and abroad usually conflate gender with women and/or trans. Gender Norms and Intersectionality shows conclusively how this is both inadequate and wrong-headed. It documents why gender norms must be moved to the center of the discourses aimed at improving life outcomes for at-risk communities. And it does so while acknowledging the insights of queer theorists about bodies, power, and difference. This book provides a starting point for a long overdue movement to elevate “applied gender studies,” providing both a reference and guide for researchers, students, policymakers, funders, non-profit leaders, and grassroots advocates. It aims to transform readers’ view of a broad array of familiar social problems, such as basic wellness and reproductive health; education; economic security; and partner, male-on-male, and school violence—showing how gender norms are an integral if overlooked key to understanding each.
On Intersectionality
On Intersectionality - 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 On Intersectionality write by Kimberle Crenshaw. This book was released on 2019-09-03. On Intersectionality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers--inside and outside of the United States--have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, "the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations." Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.
Intersectionality at Work
Intersectionality at Work - 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 Intersectionality at Work write by Vivian Xiao. This book was released on 2022. Intersectionality at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender is highly influential in social and organizational life. In recent years, research has shown that race often interacts with gender to produce different outcomes for women of different races. However, extant work has largely focused solely on the racial group membership of the target woman. In my dissertation, I expand upon prior work by shifting the focus to include both the perceiver and the target, and by extension, the psychological relationship between the two. Drawing from a social constructionist perspective on gender, I argue that racial groups represent the social communities within which gender is constructed, conferred, and enacted, and explore this proposition in a few different ways. In Chapter 1, I explore the basic psychology of this understanding of gender, demonstrating that people primarily associate the construct of womanhood with racial in-group members, more so than racial out-group members. I find that this effect generalizes across samples of White (Study 1) and Asian (Study 2) perceivers, suggesting that, broadly speaking, when people think of women, they primarily think of racial in-group women. In Chapters 2 and 3, I explore an important downstream consequence of the tendency to ascribe womanhood more to racial in-group members than racial out-group members--gender-norm enforcement. In Chapter 2, I examine penalties that women suffer in response to gender-norm violation (i.e., backlash). Across five studies, I find that White (Studies 1, 3, and 4), Black (Study 2), and Asian (Study 5) perceivers all penalize racial in-group women who violate gender norms more than racial out-group women for the same behavior. In Chapter 3, I turn to the flip side of gender-norm enforcement--rewards that women may receive for conforming to gender norms. In two studies, I find that White men extend benevolence and aid to gender-norm conforming women primarily when these women are White, rather than Black or Asian. Across nine studies, I find evidence that people construct, confer, and enforce gender within their respective racial groups. I establish that people hold a basic, cognitive link between racial in-group members and the construct of womanhood. I further demonstrate that this way of understanding gender is linked to important outcomes. Both penalties for gender-norm violation and rewards for gender-norm adherence are primarily meted out towards racial in-group women, rather than racial out-group women. Broadly speaking, my dissertation suggests that people may understand gender primarily in the context of their racial in-groups.
Framing Intersectionality
Framing Intersectionality - 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 Framing Intersectionality write by Helma Lutz. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Framing Intersectionality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination interact and overlap in multidimensional ways, the concept of 'intersectionality' has attracted much attention in international feminist debates over the last decade. Framing Intersectionality brings together proponents and critics of the concept, to discuss the 'state of the art' with those that have been influential in the debates that surround it. Engaging with the historical roots of intersectionality in the US-based 'race-class-gender' debate, this book also considers the European adoption of this concept in different national contexts, to explore issues such as migration, identity, media coverage of sexual violence against men and transnational livelihoods of high and low skilled migrants. Thematically arranged around the themes of the transatlantic migration of intersectionality, the development of intersectionality as a theory, men's studies and masculinities, and the body and embodiment, this book draws on empirical case studies as well as theoretical deliberations to investigate the capacity and the sustainability of the concept and shed light on the current state of intersectionality research. Presenting the latest work from a team of leading feminist scholars from the US and Europe, Framing Intersectionality will be of interest to all those with interests in gender, women's studies, masculinity, inequalities and feminist thought.
Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies
Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies - 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 Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies write by Christie Launius. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing is a textbook designed primarily for introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies courses with the intent of providing both a skills- and concept-based foundation in the field. The text is driven by a single key question: "What are the ways of thinking, seeing, and knowing that characterize women’s and gender studies and are valued by its practitioners?" Rather than taking a topical approach, Threshold Concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies develops the key concepts and ways of thinking that students need in order to develop a deep understanding and to approach material like feminist scholars do, across disciplines. This book illustrates four of the most critical concepts in women’s and gender studies: the social construction of gender; privilege and oppression; intersectionality; and feminist praxis, and grounds these concepts in multiple illustrations.
