Front cover -- Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Information for authors -- Introduction: Perceiving gender locally, globally, and intersectionally -- Intersectionality and essentialism -- Violence -- Methods of data collection and analysis -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 1. Toward an intersectionality just out of reach: Confronting challenges to intersectional practice -- Five challenges to intersectional practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2. Commonsense, gender, and the politics of queer visibility -- Looking back -- What is in a name? -- Commonsense, gender, and sexuality -- Intersectionality revisited -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. ''Do you like girls yet?'' Heterosexual presumption, homophobia, and pubescence -- Method -- Homoromantic boyhoods -- The discovery of girls -- Gay youth -- Movies -- Cartoons -- Television -- Fiction -- Homoromantic potential -- Conclusion -- References -- Film -- Television Series -- Chapter 4. Grappling with the relationship between men's endorsement of positive stereotypes of women and support for women's rights -- Introduction -- Modern prejudice theory -- Positive stereotypes -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion -- Implications of the findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Racialized masculinity and discourses of victimization: A comparison of the mythopoetic men's movement and the Militia of Montana -- Conceptual paper -- Men and masculinities: Theoretical approaches -- Data and methods -- Results and findings -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix 1. Content Analysis Frequency Lists for Militia of Montana (MOM) -- Appendix 1. (Continued).

Appendix 2. Content Analysis Frequency List for Mythopoetic Men's Movement -- Appendix 2. (Continued) -- Chapter 6. Globalization and gender equality: A critical analysis of women's empowerment in the global economy -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives and evidence of consequences of global economy on women's status: Empowering or disempowering women? -- Consequences of the gendered global economy: Are women empowered? -- Methodology -- Variables and data sources -- Results -- Key findings of the study -- Effects of the global economy, nation-states' locations, GDP, and culture on access to education, formal, and informal labor force -- Effects of the global economy, nation-states' locations, GDP, and culture on access to agricultural, industrial, and service labor force sectors -- Effects of the global economy, GDP, females' share of education, nation-states' location, and culture on women's decision-making capacity relative to men's -- Discussion and policy implications -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 7. Gender in motion: How gender precipitates international migration -- Introduction -- Household theories of migration -- Global labor market -- Family and care work -- Social networks -- Gendered violence -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8. The private motivations of public action: Women's associational lives and political activism in Brazil -- Introduction -- Historical/contextual background and theoretical framing -- Methods -- Measures -- Multivariate models -- Summary of variables -- Empirical findings -- Descriptive analyses -- Multivariate models -- Family circumstances -- Summary of findings and concluding remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 9. Feminism in the Canadian Academy -- Historical context -- Canadian ''second waves''.

Initial educational and political aftermath of the Royal Commission Report -- Double-dependency and the Canadianization Movement -- Women's studies -- Women's studies and political issues -- Feminisms and state powers -- 1980s to present: critical changes, politics, and feminism -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10. How did sexual harassment become a social problem in japan? The equal employment opportunity law and globalization -- Sexual harassment in globalization -- Global-local interactions -- Sekuhara in Japan: Localized global norm -- Data and methods -- Results -- Sekuhara as a product of local-global interactions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- About the authors.

Addresses questions about how feminist scholars conceptualize gender and view it in relationship to other attributes of individuals and of social systems. This book strives for intersectional analyses broadening that approach beyond the gender, race and class paradigm to include sexuality, employing a variety of methodologies.

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