READING LIST FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS IN GENDER
Day 2: Gender and Power in the Family
Gender and Power in the Family from Paid and Unpaid Labor
Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
England, Paula and Barbara Kilbourne. 1990. "Markets, Marriages, and Other Mates: The problem of power." In R. Friedland and A.F. Robertson (Eds.). Beyond the Marketplace:
Rethinking Economy and Society. New York: Aldine.
Gerson, Kathleen. 2009. “Men’s Resistance to Equal Sharing.” In Men’s Lives (9th edition) edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. Pearson.
Hays, Sharon. 1996. The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood.
Hochschild, Arlie. 1989. The Second Shift. New York: Avon Books. [day 1]
Hochschild, Arlie. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.
New York: Metropolitan Books. [day 1]
Pugh, Allison J. 2015. The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Segura, Denise A. and Jennifer L. Pierce. 1993. “Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited.” Signs 19(1):62-91.
Shelton, Anne and Daphne John. 1993. “Ethnicity, Race, and Difference: A Comparison of
White, Black, and Hispanic Men’s Household Labor Time.” In Men’s Lives (9th edition) edited
by Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. Pearson.
Asian American Families
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the
Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs 18 (autumn): 1-43. [day 1]
Lu, Alexander and Y. Joel Wong. 2013. “Stressful Experiences of Masculinity Among U.S.Born and Immigrant Asian American Men. Gender & Society 27(3): 345-371.
Nemoto, Kumiko. 2009. Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American
White Couples. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Sakamoto, Arthur, Goyette, Kimberly A., and ChangHwan Kim. 2009. “Socioeconomic Attainments of Asian Americans.” Annual Review of Sociology 35:255-276.
Gender and Power in the Family from Citizenship in the Nation-State
Acosta, Katie. 2013. “Doing Family from within Interracial/Interethnic Relationships.” Chapter 3
in Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family (Families in Focus).
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Berkowitz, Dana. 2007. “Can a Gay Man Be a Housewife? Gay Fathers Doing Gender, Family
and Parenting.” In Men’s Lives (9th edition) edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. Pearson.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2001. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. [day 1]
Ferguson, Roderick. 2003. “Introduction” in Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color
Critique. University of Minnesota Press. [day 1]
Kim-Puri, H.J. 2005. “Conceptualizing Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation.” Gender & Society 19:
137-159. [day 1]
Lewin, Ellen. 2009. “Our Own Families.” Chapter 4 in Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family
and Citizenship in America. The University of Chicago Press.
Lowe, Lisa. 1996. “Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique.” Chapter
1 in Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Duke University Press.
Moore, Mignon. 2011. “Family Life and Gendered Relations Between Women.” Chapter 5 in
Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
Ong, Aihwa. 1999. “The Pacific Shuttle: Family Citizenship and Capital Circuits.” Chapter 4 in
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke University Press.
Orloff, Ann. 1993. “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship.” American Sociological Review. [day 1]
Sarkisian, Natalia and Naomi Gerstel. 2012. Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives: The
Power of Race, Class, and Gender. New York, NY: Routledge.
Smith, Andrea. 2005. “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide.” Chapter 1 in Conquest: Sexual
Violence and American Indian Genocide. South End Press. [day 1]
Asian American Families
Espiritu, Yen Le. 1999. “Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families.” In Gender and U.S.
Immigration, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley and Los Angelese, CA: University
of California Press, Ltd. [day 1]
_____________. 2001. “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”: Family, Culture, and
Gender in Filipina American Lives.” In Gender and U.S. Immigration, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley and Los Angelese, CA: University of California Press, Ltd. [day 1]
_____________. 2009. “Emotions, Sex, and Money: The Lives of Filipino Children of Immi-
grants.” In Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America, edited by Nancy Foner. New
York: New York University Press, pp. 47-71.
Kang, Miliann. 2014. “Are Second-Generation Korean-American Women Tiger Mothers? Strategic, Transnational, and Resistant Responses to Racialized Mothering.” Chapter 12 in SecondGeneration Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada. Pyong Gap Min and Samuel
Noh (eds)
Kibria, Nazli. 2002. Becoming Asian American: Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Park, Lisa. 2005. Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Stanford
University Press.
Gender and Power in the Family Resulting in Violence
Anderson, Kristin L. 2007. “Who Gets Out?: Gender as Structure and the Dissolution of Violent
Heterosexual Relationships.” Gender & Society 21(2): 173-201.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. Routledge. [day 1]
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity, Politics and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43:1241–99. [day 1]
Kaufman, Michael. 1999. “The Seven P’s of Men’s Violence.” In Men’s Lives (9th edition) edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. Pearson.
MacKinnon, Catharine. 1987. “Pleasure under Patriarchy.” From Theories of Human Sexuality,
ed. J. Geer and W. O’Donohue. Plenum Publishing. [day 1]
McCloskey, Laura Ann. 1996. “Socioeconomic and Coercive Power within the Family.” Gender
& Society 10(4): 339-363.
Umberson, Debra, Anderson, Kristin, Williams, Kristi and Meichu D. Chen. 2003. “Relationship
Dynamics, Emotion State, and Domestic Violence: A Stress and Masculinities Perspective.”
Journal of Marriage and Family 65(1):233-247.
Volpp, Leti. 2005. “Feminism versus Multiculturalism.” Domestic Violence at the Margins:
Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture. Edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt.
Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Asian American Families
Abraham, Maggie. 2005. “Strategies of Resistance.” Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture. Edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Chang, Doris F., Shen, Biing-Jiun, and David T. Takeuchi. 2009. “Prevalence and demographic
correlates of intimate partner violence in Asian Americans.” International Journal of Law and
Psychiatry 32: 167-175.
Dasgupta, Shamita Das. 2005. “Women’s Realities: Defining Violence against Women by Immigration, Race, and Class.” Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture. Edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee. 2005. “Navigating the Anti-Immigrant Wave: The Korean Women’s Hotline
and the Politics of Community.” Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class,
Gender and Culture. Edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers
University Press.