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Composing Gender

A Bedford Spotlight ReaderFirst Edition| ©2014 Rachael Groner; John O'Hara

Composing Gender explores questions around the central concept of gender: Is gender binary, or more complicated? How do we define gender and sexuality? What stereotypes, expectations, and rituals shape gender? What influence does the media have on gender? Readings by a range of feminist schol...
Composing Gender explores questions around the central concept of gender: Is gender binary, or more complicated? How do we define gender and sexuality? What stereotypes, expectations, and rituals shape gender? What influence does the media have on gender? Readings by a range of feminist scholars, journalists, gender theorists, biologists, legal scholars, sociologists, and others take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The Web site for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting new line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford’s trademark care and quality. The readers in the series collect carefully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course—about 30 selections—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes have assisted in the development of the series.
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A brief and inexpensive reader for composition on gender

Composing Gender explores questions around the central concept of gender: Is gender binary, or more complicated? How do we define gender and sexuality? What stereotypes, expectations, and rituals shape gender? What influence does the media have on gender? Readings by a range of feminist scholars, journalists, gender theorists, biologists, legal scholars, sociologists, and others take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The Web site for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting new line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford’s trademark care and quality. The readers in the series collect carefully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course—about 30 selections—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes have assisted in the development of the series.

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Bedford care and quality in every volume. Each volume in the Bedford Spotlight series is developed with attention to design, pedagogy, and compelling readings that work in the classroom.

Affordable, and an ideal package option. Each volume in the Spotlight series offers plenty of material for a composition course while keeping the price low. Combine one of the Spotlight readers with a handbook or rhetoric and save 20% off the combined price. Or package your Spotlight Reader with Critical Reading and Writing: A Bedford Spotlight Rhetoric for free (a $10 value).

Multiple perspectives on gender and its effects on individuals and society. In order to foster student engagement, five chapters, built around central questions on the subject of gender, offer numerous entry points for inquiry and discussion. A mix of genres as well as accessible and challenging selections allows instructors to tailor their approach to each classroom. For instance

  • Judith Lorber, in "’Night to His Day’": The Social Construction of Gender" explains how gender is not innate.
  • Peggy Orenstein, in "What’s Wrong with Cinderella?" examines the pervasiveness of princess and other gender normative toys marketed for girls.
  • Michael Kimmel, in "The Rites of Almost-Men: Binge Drinking, Fraternity Hazing, and the Elephant Walk" looks at the rituals of masculinity for young adult men, focusing in particular on the college years.

Thoughtful support for writers and instructors. A general introduction, chapter introductions, and headnotes provide context, and prompts and assignments offer suggestions for discussion, informal writing, research; ways to connect selections; and assignments for writing. A Web site for the series offers support for teaching the themes in each volume.

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"I like the way the chapter titles are phrased as open-ended questions, which encourages students to focus on inquiry."
—Bill Doyle, University of Tampa
Composing Gender by Rachael Groner; John O'Hara - First Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

Composing Gender

First Edition| ©2014

Rachael Groner; John O'Hara

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Composing Gender by Rachael Groner; John O'Hara - First Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

Composing Gender

First Edition| 2014

Rachael Groner; John O'Hara

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Is Gender Either/Or (or Something Else)?

Judith Lorber, "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender

Aaron Devor, Becoming Members of Society: The Social Meanings of Gender

Ruth Hubbard, Rethinking Women’s Biology

Petra Doan, The Tyranny of Gendered Spaces: Reflections from Beyond the Gender Dichotomy

Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Chapter Two: How Do We Become Boys and Girls?

Claire Renzetti and Daniel J. Curran, from Women, Men and Society

Jennifer Goodwin, Even-Nine-Month-Olds Choose Gender-Specific Toys

Emily W. Kane, "No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That": Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity

Peggy Orenstein, What’s Wrong with Cinderella?

Michael A. Messner, "Looking for a Team Mom": Separating the Men from the Moms

Chapter Three: What Rituals Shape Our Gender?

Amy Best, Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular Culture

Michael Kimmel, The Rites of Almost-Men: Binge Drinking, Fraternity Hazing, and the Elephant Walk

Jaclyn Geller, Undercover at the Bloomindale’s Registry

Stephanie Rosenbloom, Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day

Joseph Zoske, Male Circumcision: A Gender Perspective

Chapter Four: How Do We Define Sexuality?

Pepper Schwartz, The Social Construction of Heteroxexuality

Sandra Lipsitz Bem, On Judith Butler

C. J. Pascoe, Dude, You’re a Fag: Adolescent Male Homophobia

Patricia Hill Collins, Hegemonic Masculinity and Black Gender Ideology

Chapter Five: How Does the Media Shape Gender?

Susie Orbach, Losing Bodies

Gail Dines, Visible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in Porn Culture

Jia-Rui Chong, Beauty and the Bleach

American Psychological Association, Report of the Task Force on the Sexualization of Young Girls

Amy Adler, To Catch a Predator
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First Edition| 2014

Rachael Groner; John O'Hara

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Rachael Groner


John O'Hara

John Fitzgerald O’Hara is an associate professor of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing at Stockton University, where he is the coordinator of the first-year critical thinking program, and former Director of the Master of Arts in American Studies Program. He regularly teaches writing, critical thinking, and courses in American literature and history and is a nationally-recognized expert on the 1960s. He is the co-author of Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.

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