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Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections  
Author: Toni P. Lester
ISBN: 0299181405
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
How are culturally constructed stereotypes about appropriate sex-based behavior formed? If a person who is biologically female behaves in a stereotypically masculine manner, what are the social, political, and cultural forces that may police her behavior? And how will she manage her gendered image in response to that policing? Finally, how do race, ethnicity, or sexuality inform the way that sex-based roles are constructed, policed, or managed? The chapters in this book address such questions from social science perspectives and then examine personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and surrealist artist Claude Cahun. Writers from fields as diverse as history, art, psychology, law, literature, sociology, and the activist community look at gender nonconformity from conceptual, theoretical, and empirical perspectives. They emphasize that gender nonconformists can be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or anyone else who does not fit a model of Caucasian heterosexual behavior characterized by binary masculine and feminine roles. Contributors: Michael Anderson Whitney Chadwick Shannon Dowling Mary Gentile Katie Gilmartin Julie Greenberg Peter Hegarty Toni Lester Carol Martin Geeta Patel Francine Pinnuck Martin Summers

About the Author
Toni Lester is associate professor of law at Babson College. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Research on Gender and Wellesley College's Center for Women.




Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections

FROM THE PUBLISHER

How are culturally constructed stereotypes about appropriate sex-based behavior formed? If a person who is biologically female behaves in a stereotypically masculine manner, what are the social, political, and cultural forces that may police her behavior? And how will she manage her gendered image in response to that policing? Finally, how do race, ethnicity, or sexuality inform the way that sex-based roles are constructed, policed, or managed?

The chapters in this book address such questions from social science perspectives and then examine personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and surrealist artist Claude Cahun.

Writers from fields as diverse as history, art, psychology, law, literature, sociology, and the activist community look at gender nonconformity from conceptual, theoretical, and empirical perspectives. They emphasize that gender nonconformists can be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or anyone else who does not fit a model of Caucasian heterosexual behavior characterized by binary masculine and feminine roles.

Contributors:

Michael Anderson

Whitney Chadwick

Shannon Dowling

Mary Gentile

Katie Gilmartin

Julie Greenberg

Peter Hegarty

Toni Lester

Carol Martin

Geeta Patel

Francine Pinnuck

Martin Summers

Author Biography: Toni Lester is associate professor of law at Babson College. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Research on Gender and Wellesley College's Center for Women.

SYNOPSIS

"Men do not own masculinity any more than women own femininity," states Lester (law, Babson College; Wellesley's Center for Women) in introducing 11 essays viewing issues of gender and multiple, marginalized identities through conceptual, empirical, and legal lenses. Analyses and illustrations feature sex role nonconformists from black gays to gender-bending female Jewish surrealist photographer Claude Cahun. The scholarly contributors include one occasional drag queen. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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