Gender Comprehensive Exams Reading List
Fall 2004
Theory/Methodology
J. Acker. 1973. "Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism." AJS
78:936-45.
J. Acker. 1990. "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations."
Gender & Society 4:139-58.
J. Benjamin. 1988. Bonds of Love.
N. Chodorow, 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California Press.
P.H. Collins. 1991. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment.
R.W. Connell. 1987. Gender & power: society, the person, and sexual politics.
R.W. Connell. 1995. Masculinities: Knowledge, Power, and Social Change.
R.W. Connell. 2000. The Men and The Boys.
M. DeVault. 1996. “Talking Back to Sociology: Distinctive Contributions of Feminist
Methodology.” Annual Review of Sociology 22: 29-50.
P. England. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. New York: A. de Gruyter.
N. Fraser. 1989. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social
Theory. University of Minnesota Press.
E. Goffman. 1977. “The Arrangement between the Sexes” Theory and Society 4: 301-31.
I. Grewal and C. Kaplan. 1994. Editors. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and
Transnational Feminist Politics. University of Minnesota Press.
S. G. Harding. 1991. Whose science? Whose knowledge? : Thinking from women's lives.
H. Hartmann. 1976. "Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex." Signs ,
1:137-69.
M. Komarovsky. 1992. "The Concept of Social Role Revisited." Gender & Society ,
6:301-13.
C. MacKinnon. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Harvard University
Press.
C. Mohanty, 2003. “’Under Western Eyes’: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses.” from
Feminist Without Borders .
L. Nicholson, ed. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism. Routledge.
T. Parsons. 1964. “Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States.” In Parsons,
Essays in Sociological Theory.”
L. Sargent. 1981. Editor. Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy
Marriage of Marxism and Feminism.
D. Smith. 1979. "A Sociology for Women." Pp. 135-87 in Sherman and Beck, eds., The
Prism of Sex. Reprinted in D. Smith, The Everyday World as Problematic.
E. Spelman, 1988. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought.
Beacon Press, Boston.
J. Sprague. 1997. “Holy Men and Big Guns: The Can[non] in Social Theory.” Gender
& Society 11:88-107.

J. Stacey and B. Thorne. 1985. "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology." Social
Problems 32:301-16.
C. West and D.H. Zimmerman. 1987. "Doing Gender." Gender & Society 1:125-51.
Class/Race/Ethnicity
J. Acker. 1988. "Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution." Signs, 13:473-87
M. Alicea. 1997. "A Chambered Nautilus: The Contradictory Nature of Puerto Rican
Women's Role in the Social Construction of a Transnational Community."
Gender & Society , 11:597-626.
M. Baca Zinn and B. T. Dill. 1994. Women of color in US Society.
M. Baca Zinn & B.T. Dill. 1996. “Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism.”
Feminist Stu dies, 22: 321-31.
M. Baca Zinn. 1982. “Review Essay: Mexican American Women in the Social
Sciences”, Signs 8(2):
M. Baca Zinn. 1982. “Chicano Men and Masculinity”, Journal of Ethnic Studies , 10(2)
N. Davis and R. Robinson. 1998. “Do Wive’s Matter? Class Identities of Wives and
Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994.” Social Forces 76:1063-86.
B. T. Dill. 1979. "The Dialectics of Black Womanhood." Signs 4:543-55.
P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1992. “Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints: The reconstruction of gender relations among Mexican immigrant women and men.”
Gender & Society
6: 393-415.
P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of
Immigration. University of California Press, Berkeley.
P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. Domestica.
Kalmijn. 1994. “Mother’s Occupational Status and Children’s Schooling.”
American
Sociological Review , 59:257-75.
S. McLanahan. 1985. “Family Structure and the Reproduction of Poverty.”
American
Journal of Sociology , 90:873-901.
C. Moraga and G. Anzaldua. 1981. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical
Women of Color.
S. Ostrander 1984. Women of the Upper Class.
Pyke and Johnson. 2003. “Asian American women and Racialized Femininities:
‘Doing’ Gender across Cultural Worlds.” G & S 17: 33-53.
J. Rollins. 1985. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers.
Segura and Pierce. 1993. “Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality:
Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited.” Signs 19: 62-91.
Stier and Tienda. 1992. “Family, Work, and Women: The Labor Supply of Hispanic
Immigrant Wives.”
International Migration Review , 26:1291-1313.
A. K. Wing (editor), 1997. 2003. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader.
K. Yamanake and K. McClelland. 1994. “Earning the Model Minority Image: Diverse
Strategies of Economic Adaptation by Asian-American Women.” Ethnic and
Racial Studies , 17:79-114.
Education/Body/Sexuality
J. Bettie. 2003. Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity.

S. Bailey (editor). 2002. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education.
S. Bordo. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.
L. Carpenter. 2002. “Gender and the Meaning and Experience of Virginity Loss in the
Contemporary United States.” Gender & Society 16:345-365.
S. Catsambis. 1994. “The Path to Math: Gender and Racial-Ethnic Differences in
Mathematics Participation from Middle School to High School.” Sociology of
Education 67:199-215.
L. Chancer. 1998. Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the
Future of Feminism.
S. Correll. 2004.“Constraints into preferences: gender, status and emerging career aspirations." American Sociological Review.69: 93-113
S. Correll. 2001. “Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Baised Self-
Assessments.” American Journal of Scoiology 106:1691-1730.
D. Entwisle et al. 1994. “The gender gap in math: Its possible origins in neighborhood effects.”
American Sociological Review , 59: 822-838.
Y. L. Espiritu, 2003. “’We don’t sleep around like White girls do”: Family, culture, and gender in Filipina lives.” Pp. 263-84 in Gender and US Immigration:
Contemporary Trends, edited by P. Hondagneu-Sotelo.
C. Feiring. 1999. “Gender Identity and the Development of Romantic Relationships in
Adolescence.” Pp. 211-234 in The Development of Romantic Relationships in
Adolescence. Wyndol Furman, B. Bradford Brown, and
Candice Feiring (Eds.)
A. Ferguson. 2000. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity.
C. Gilligan. 19994. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s
Development
G. Gonzalez-Lopez. 2003. “ De madres a hijas : Gendered Lessons on Virginity across
Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women.” Pp. 217-40 in Gender and U.S. immigration: Contemporary Trends edited by P. Hondagneu-Sotelo.
J. Holland and R. Thomson. 1998. “ Sexual Relationships, Negotiation, and Decision
Making.” Teenage Sexuality: Health, Risk, and Education .
E. B. Kaplan. 1997. Not our kind of girl: Unraveling the myths of Black Teenage
Motherhood. Univ. of California Press.
J. Lauritsen. 1994. “Explaining Race and Gender Differences in Adolescent Sexual
Behavior.”
Social Forces , 72: 859-883.
J. Lee. 2003. "Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body” Pp. 82-99 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.
J. Loftus. 2001. “America’s Liberalization in Attitudes toward Homosexuality: 1973-
1998.”
American Sociological Review , 66: 762-782.
N. Lopez. 2003. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban
Education.
J. Lorber. 1993. "Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology." Pp. 12-24 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.
W. Luttrell. 2003. Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of
Pregnant Teens.
K. Luker. 1996. Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy.

K. Martin. 2003. “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools.” Pp. 219-239 in
The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior edited by
Rose Weitz.
K. Martin. 1996. Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self.
R. Michael, J. Gagnon, E. Laumann, and G. Kolata. 1994. Sex in America: A Definitive
Survey.
S. Moore and D. Rosenthal. 1993. Sexuality in Adolescence.
P. Orenstein. 1994. SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap.
L.M. Phillips. 2000. Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and
Domination.
B. Rizman and P. Schwartz. 2002. “After the sexual revolution: Gender politics in teen dating”,
Contexts , 1: 16-24.
L. Rubin. 1982. Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together.
M. Sadker & D. Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls.
A. Schalet. 2000. “Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality and the
Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States and the Netherlands.”
Body&Society , 6: 75-105.
R. Solinger. 1990. Wake Up, Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v.
Wade.
A. Stein. 1997. Sex and Sensibilities: Stories of a Lesbian Generation.
B. Thorne. 1990. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School.
D. Tolman. 2003. “Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls” Pp.
100-121 in The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and
Behavior edited by Rose Weitz.
D. Tolman. 1994. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality. Gender and Society, 8(3), 324-342
S. L. Williams. 2002. “Trying on Gender, Gender Regimes, and the Process of
Becoming Women.” Gender & Society 16:29-52.
L. Wu. 1996. “Effects of Family Instability, Income, and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth.” American Sociological Review , 61:386-406.