Sex, Gender and Sexuality

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Key Terms
* indicates new to the Second edition
Part One: Rethinking Foundations: Theorizing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
1. Anne Fausto-Sterling: "Dueling Dualisms"
2. Sharon E. Preves: "Intersex Narratives: Gender, Medicine, and Identity"
3. Leila Rupp: "Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality" *
4. Laura M. Carpenter: "The Ambiguity of Sex and Virginity Loss: Insights from Feminist Research Methods"
5. James W. Messerschmidt: "Goodbye to the Sex-Gender Distinction, Hello to Embodied Gender: On Masculinities, Bodies, and Violence"
6. Patricia Hill Collins: "Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality"
7. Abby L. Ferber: "Keeping Sex in Bounds: Sexuality and the (De) Construction of Race and Gender"
8. Chrys Ingraham: "Heterosexuality: It's Just Not Natural"
Part Two: Examining Our Lives, Expanding the Boundaries
Ryan A. Flores: Poem: "Guess Who?"
9. Kaua'i Iki: "'O Au No Keia: Voice From Hawai'i's Mahu and Transgender Communities"
10. Nadine Naber: "Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore"
11. Marisa Navarro: "Becoming La Mujer"
12. Kate Harding: "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman" *
13. Eli Clare: "Naming" and "Losing Home" from Exile and Pride *
14. riki Anne Wilchins: "Click. Hello?"
15. Sonya Bolus: "Loving Outside Simple Lines"
16. C. Jacob Hale: "Whose Body Is This Anyway?"
17. Ahoo Tabatabai: "Protecting The Lesbian Border: The Tension Between Individual and Communal Authenticity" *
18. Carmen Yon-Leau and Miguel Muoz-Laboy: "'I Don't Like to Say That I'm Anything': Sexual Politics and Cultural Critique Among Sexual Minority Latino Youth" *
Part Three: Context Matters: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions
Nellie Wong: Poem: "When I Was Growing Up"
19. Marsha Saxton: "Disability Rights and Selective Abortion" *
20. Emily Martin: "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles"
21. Phyllis Burke: "Gender Shock: Exploding the Myth of Male and Female"
22. Tre Wentling: "Am I Obsessed? Gender Identity Disorder, Stress, and Obsession"
23. Siobhan Somerville: "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body"
24. Catherine Bolackledge: "The Function of the Orgasm"
25. Shelly A. McGrath and Ruth A. Chananie-Hill: "'Big Freaky Looking Women': Normalizing Gender Transgression Through Body Building" *
26. Simone Weil Davis: "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
27. Eithne Luibhold: "Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border" *
28. Melanie Heath: "State of Our Unions: Marriage Promotion and the Contested Power of Heterosexuality" *
29. Lionel Cantu, Jr.: "The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men" *
30. Kamala Kempadoo: "Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade Transnational Feminist Perspectives" *
31. Andrea Smith: "Rape and War against Native Women"
32. Barbara Perry: "Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately: Violence Against Women, Gay Men, and Lesbians"
Part Four: (Re)Envisioning Community and Social Change
Ntozake Shange: Poem: "With No Immediate Cause"
33. Tressa Anolin Navalta: "One in Front of the Other"
34. Nova Gutierrez: "Visions of Community for GLBT Youth: Resisting Fragmentation, Living Whole: Four Female Transgender Students of Color Speak About School"
35. Kate Woolfe: "It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity"
36. Cindy Solomon: "Androgyny and Faith" *
37. Cathy J. Cohen: "Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS"
38. George Chauncey: "'What Gay Studies Taught the Court': The Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas" *
39. Martin Rochlin: "Heterosexism in Research: The Heterosexual Questionnaire"
40. Avy Skolnik with The Colorado Anti-Violence Program (CAVP): "Privileges Held by Non-Trans People"
41. Judith Lorber: "A World Without Gender: Making the Revolution"
42. Leslie Feinberg: "We Are All Works in Progress"

Abby L. Ferber is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, and Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has written numerous books and articles about race, gender and the far right. Kimberly Holcomb has her MA in Sociology with an interest in gender, sexuality, privilege, and intersectionality. Tre Wentling is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. Wentling's current research broadly focuses on the everyday lived experiences of transgender people in the U.S.

Special Features

• Brings together the imperative basics and the cutting-edge works of sex, gender, and sexuality.
• Equips students with guided reading questions and/or faculty with springboard discussion questions.
• A working list of Key Terms facilitates an immersion in the sex, gender, and sexuality languages and helps students to feel comfortable with what may be new terminology.

• Moved and updated the Key Terms to the front of the text so that they can be easily found and used.
• Removed twenty-two articles and added fourteen new ones.
• Part one includes two new articles. One addresses the 'nature' of same-sex practices and desires transnationally and globally, and the second analyzes the social institution of heterosexuality.
• Part two includes four new articles that invite readers to consider how constructions of body size, disability, individual and community membership/s, as well as the complicities of sexual terminology intersect with personal experiences of sex, gender, and sexuality.
• Part three has six new articles that present matters related to disability rights, abortion, sport, historical immigration practices, contemporary heterosexual marriage promotions, queer tourism, transnational feminism and the global sex trade. It is also now one continuous, more coherent section.
• Part four incorporates two new articles: a brief autobiographical account of an androgynous person that actively practices organized religion and the second offers a review of legal measures of 'progress' in an historical and contemporary context, as well as insight into the ways in which academics can influence public policy.
• Revised and discussion questions as appropriate.