This innovative reader contains foundational and cutting-edge articles representing a range of primary feminist research by established and early-career scholars. Editors Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart, and Marni Alyson Brown have carefully selected, edited, and introduced the selections with undergraduate students in mind, and address many key 21st century approaches to feminist scholarship throughout, including intersectional perspectives, global and transnational perspectives, a focus on transgender, and an emphasis on masculinity. Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings is also supported by a dynamic blog, where the editors connect the readings to current events and related online articles, films, short videos, and podcasts.
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Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, and Editor of Gender & Society. She has been teaching gender for over 20 years, and has a great deal of experience as an editor, both with Gender & Society, and as a co-editor of two book series, including Pine Forge's Sociology for a New Century. She has published articles on teaching undergraduate students for Teaching Sociology and American Sociologist, and co-edited a teaching resource collection on teaching Race/Gender/Class for the American Sociological Association. A number of her syllabi and course assignments have also been published as ASA teaching resources collections, including in TRAILS. She is engaged in a number of writing projects, including a project on gender wage gaps, a project on retail employment, and a project on advancing the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the academy.
Marni Alyson Brown is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She has been teaching gender for several years and has experience with teacher training programs and undergraduate curriculum development. She has been published in
Teaching Sociology,
Sociology of Sport, and contributed to the reader
Sex Matters. She is engaged in a few writing projects, including a project examining the exploitation of graduate students and adjuncts at colleges and universities as well as a project on student's attitudes towards the pedagogy of race and gender in the classroom. Furthermore, she is working on a project that explores the everyday intersectional experiences of gay men and women.
Mahala Dyer Stewart is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts. She has been a teaching assistant and instructor for several courses covering gender. She serves as one of the managing editors for
Gender & Society, and has successfully directed the journal′s use of blogging and social networking to increase circulation, promote awareness of its content, and build a community of readers.
