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WGST 320: Gendered Bodies and Society (Rev. C1 & C2) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000, July). The five sexes revisited: The varieties of sex will test medical values and social norms. The Sciences, 18−23.
West, C., & Zimmerman, D. (1987). Doing gender. Gender & Society, 1(2), 125−151.
Lorber, J. (2005). Postmodern feminism. In Gender inequality: Feminist theories and politics (3rd ed.) (pp. 264–278). Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.
Bury, R. (2015). 1.1: The two-sex binary [Video lecture].

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Bury, R. (2015). 1.2: Theorizing gender [Video lecture].

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Unit 2

Jordan, E., & Cowan, A. (1995). Warrior narratives in the kindergarten classroom: Renegotiating the social contract? Gender & Society, 9(6), 727−743. 
Myers, K., & Raymond, L. (2010). Elementary school girls and heteronormativity: The girl project. Gender & Society, 24(2), 167−188. 
Wang, A. (2000). Asian and White boys’ competing discourses about masculinity: Implications for secondary education. Canadian Journal of Education, 25(2), 113−125.
Walkerdine, V. (2006).  Playing the game: Young girls performing femininity in video game play.” Feminist Media Studies, 6(4), 519−537.
Bury, R. (2015). 2.1: Pink is for girls, blue is for boys [Video lecture].

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Bury, R. (2015). 2.2: Performing femininities and masculinities at home, at play and in the classroom [Video lecture].

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Unit 3

Pyke, K. D., & Johnson, D. L. (2003). Asian American women and racialized femininities: “Doing” gender across cultural worlds. Gender & Society, 17(1), 33−53.
Finley, N. J. (2010). Skating femininity: Gender maneuvering in women’s roller derby. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39(4), 359−387.
Rupp, L. J., Taylor, V., Regev-Messalem, S., Fogarty, A. C. K., & England, P. (2014). Queer women in the hookup scene: Beyond the closet? Gender & Society, 28(2), 212−235.
Dean, A. (2005). Does a lesbian need a vagina like a fish needs a bicycle? Or would the “real” lesbian please stand up! Canadian Woman Studies, 24(2/3), 93−101.
Day, K., & Keys, T. (2008). Starving in cyberspace: A discourse analysis of pro-eating-disorder websites. Journal of Gender Studies, 17(1), 1−15.      
Bury, R. (2015). 3.1: Theorizing femininities [Video lecture].

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Bury, R. (2015). 3.2: Normative and alternative performances [Video lecture].

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Unit 4

Peralta, R. L. (2007). College alcohol use and the embodiment of hegemonic masculinity among European American men. Sex Roles, 56(3/4), 741–756. 
Atencio, M., & Wright, J. (2008). “We be killin' them”: Hierarchies of black masculinity in urban basketball spaces. Sociology of Sport, 25, 263−280.      
Clarkson, J. (2006). "Everyday Joe" versus "pissy, bitchy queens": Gay masculinity on StraightActing.com. The Journal of Men's Studies, 14(2), 191−207.      
Evans, J. (2002). Cautious caregivers: Gender stereotypes and the sexualization of men nurses' touch. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 40(4), 441−448. 
Courtney, J. (2009). Real men do housework: Ethos and masculinity in contemporary domestic advice. Rhetoric Review, 28(1), 66−81. 
Bury, R. (2015). 4.1: Theorizing masculinities [Video lecture].

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Bury, R. (2015). 4.2: Normative and alternative performances [Video lecture].

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Unit 5

Clare, E. (2015). Freaks and queers. In Exile and pride: Disability, queerness, and liberation (pp. 81–118). Duke University Press.
Kudlick, C. (2005). The blind man's Harley: White canes and gender identity in America. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(21), 1589−1606. 
Scott, J.-A. (2014). Illuminating the vulnerability of hegemonic masculinity through a performance analysis of physically disabled men's personal narratives. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(1), 1−19. 
Bury, R. (2015). 5.1: Thinking through disability [Video lecture]. 

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Bury, R. (2015). 5.2: Gendered performances of disability [Video lecture]. 

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Unit 6

Cameron, M. (2005). Two-spirited Aboriginal people: Continuing cultural appropriation by non-Aboriginal society. Canadian Woman Studies, 24(2/3), 123−127. 
Jenness, V., & Fenstermaker, S. (2014). Agnes goes to prison: Gender authenticity, transgender inmates in prisons for men, and pursuit of “The Real Deal.” Gender & Society, 28(1), 5−31. 
Cavanagh, S. L. (2011). Trans subjects and gender misreadings in the toilet. In Queering bathrooms: Gender, sexuality, and the hygienic imagination (pp. 52–78). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Stone, A. L. (2013). Flexible queers, serious bodies: Transgender inclusion in queer spaces. Journal of Homosexuality, 60 (12), 1647−1665. 
Bury, R. (2015). 6.1: Disrupting the two-sex binary [Video lecture].

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Bury, R. (2015). 6.2: Performing queer and trans identities [Video lecture].

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Video Transcripts

Transcript for Video 1.1
Transcript for Video 1.2
Transcript for Video 2.1
Transcript for Video 2.2
Transcript for Video 3.1
Transcript for Video 3.2
Transcript for Video 4.1
Transcript for Video 4.2
Transcript for Video 5.1
Transcript for Video 5.2
Transcript for Video 6.1
Transcript for Video 6.2