1  Cover

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      4  Introduction What Do You Think About Same-Sex Marriage? Gender, Sexuality and Sociology Essentialism in Classical Sociological Thinking The Structure of the Text Notes and Resources for Further Study

      5  Part I The Development of Sociological Thought on Gender and Sexuality Introduction: The Unfortunate President 1 The Trouble with ‘Nature’ 1.1 ‘One is Not Born But Becomes a Woman’: Identifying ‘Essentialism’ 1.2 Identifying Gender: First Wave Feminism 1.3 Consequences of Sex–Gender Beliefs: The ‘Deviant’ Homosexual 1.4 Defining Gender: The Second Wave 2 Sociological Challenges to Essentialism 2.1 The Feminine Mystique and Liberal Feminism 2.2 Radical Feminism and the Concept of ‘Patriarchy’ 2.3 Radical Feminist Approaches to Sexuality 2.4 Sexuality and Social Structure: ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality’ and the Politics of Lesbianism 2.5 Gay Liberation and the Beginnings of Sociology of Homosexuality: Challenging ‘Deviance’ 2.6 Marxist Feminism, Capitalism and Patriarchy 2.7 Gay Identity and Capitalism 2.8 Women’s ‘Difference’ 2.9 Sexuality, Knowledge and Power: The Impact of Foucault 2.10 Significant Absences in Second Wave Feminism and Gay Liberation Learning Outcomes Notes and Resources for Further Study

      6  Part II Inequalities and Social Structure Introduction: Local and Global Structuring of Gender and Sexual Inequalities 3 Gender, Sexuality and Structural Inequality 3.1 Approaches to Social Structure 3.2 The Gendered and Sexual Landscape of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Western Societies 3.3 Structural Sociology and the Neglect of Women 3.4 Early Critical Approaches 3.5 From ‘Sex Roles’ to ‘Sexual Divisions’ 4 The Idea of Patriarchy 4.1 Women’s Subordination and Sexual Exclusion in the Early 1970s 4.2 The Influence of Marxism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Sexual Politics 4.3 Relations of Production: Theorizing Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work 4.4 Relations of Reproduction: Marxism, Feminism and Motherhood 4.5 Sexuality, Sexual Exploitation and Institutionalized Heterosexuality 4.6 Ideology, Discourse and Culture 4.7 Challenging White Feminism 5 Rethinking Gendered and Sexual Inequalities 5.1 The Persistence of Material Inequalities into the Twenty- First Century 5.2 New Materialisms 5.3 The Structural Dimensions of Gender and Sexuality 5.4 The Idea of Intersectionality 5.5 Global Modernity, Global Inequality and the Ordering of Gender and Sexuality Learning Outcomes Notes and Resources for Further Study

      7  Part III Culture, Ideology and Discourse Introduction: The End of a ‘Queer’ Era? 6 Gender and Sexuality as Cultural Constructs 6.1 Identifying Patriarchal Culture 6.2 Religion, Culture and the Sexual 6.3 The Advent of Scientific Essentialism 6.4 Essentialism and Bourgeois Victorian Culture 6.5 From Sexology to Psychology: Freud and Psychoanalysis in the Twentieth Century 6.6 The Persistence of Scientific Essentialism into the Twenty- First Century 7 Critical Perspectives on Knowledge 7.1 ‘Biology as Ideology’: The Problem with ‘Natural’ Science 7.2 Science as One of Many ‘Knowledges’: From Ideology to Discourse 7.3 The Challenge of the ‘Cultural Turn’ in Social Theory 7.4 Queer Theory: Deconstructing Identity 7.5 Embodied Sociology