So I have been thinking alot about how to tackle the reading for this topic, and have identified some key texts for biology and sociology.\u00a0 These are, as suggested, first year recommended reading ‘essential primers’.\u00a0 They are heavy, and thick, and nice easy reads.\u00a0 So I am going to work my way through them initially to get some ideas on what the main approaches to gender are from biologists’ and sociologists’ perspectives.\u00a0 This is a massive oversimplification I know, but I think it is the best way to begin.\u00a0 So this week and next week I am going to be reading:<\/p>\n
BIOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n Longenbaker, Susannah Nelson. (2008) Mader’s understanding human anatomy & physiology. <\/em>6th<\/sup> Edition. McGraw-Hill: London<\/p>\n Mader, Silvia S. (2009) Human Biology.<\/em> 10th edition. McGraw Hill: London<\/p>\n Smith, Stephen W. and Ronan Deazley (eds.) (2009) The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression.<\/em> Ashgate Publishing: Farnham<\/p>\n SOCIOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n Abbott, Pamela, Claire Wallace and Melissa Tyler (2005) An introduction to Sociology. Feminist Perspectives. <\/em>Third edition. Routledge: London<\/p>\n Haralambos, Michael and Martin Holborn (2008) Sociology. Themes and Perspectives. <\/em>Seventh edition. Collins: London<\/p>\n Marsh, Ian, Mike Keating, Samantha Punch and Jeni Harden (2009) Sociology: making Sense of Society<\/em>. Fourth edition. Pearson Education: London<\/p>\n Not the whole books of course; just the most relevant bits.\u00a0 Then I am going to pull out of those books, some ideas for key approaches, and therefore key texts, around gender from those disciplines’ perspectives.\u00a0 I have a list in my head already of books that I think look relevant (from Google searches and a couple of visits to the university library), but this may change as I work through the introductory texts.\u00a0 In fact one would hope that it will, as that is in a way the whole point of this task, to develop our understandings of these disciplines.<\/p>\n So at the moment, I think that I am going to be reading something like this when I start to look at the disciplines when applied broadly to the topic of Gender:<\/p>\n BIOLOGY and GENDER<\/strong><\/p>\n Baron-Cohen, Simon (2004) The Essential Difference.<\/em> Penguin: London<\/p>\n Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2001) Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.<\/em> Basic Books: London<\/p>\n Keller, Evelyn Fox (2000) The Century of the Gene.<\/em> Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n Schiebinger, Londa (1995) Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science.<\/em> Beacon Press: Boston and London<\/p>\n SOCIOLOGY and GENDER<\/strong><\/p>\n Archer, John and Barbara Lloyd (2002) Sex and Gender, Second Edition.<\/em> Cambridge University Press: Cambridge<\/p>\n Backett-Milburn and Linda McKie (2001) Constructing Gendered Bodies<\/em>. Palgrave: Basingstoke.<\/p>\n Butler, Judith (1993) Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’.<\/em>Routledge: London<\/p>\n Mills, Sara (ed.) (1994) Gendering the Reader<\/em>. Harvester: London<\/p>\n But who knows.\u00a0 This is an exciting experiment in learning something completely new and anything could happen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I have been thinking alot about how to tackle the reading for this topic, and have identified some key texts for biology and sociology.\u00a0 These are, as suggested, first year recommended reading ‘essential primers’.\u00a0 They are heavy, and thick, and nice easy reads.\u00a0 So I am going to work my way through them initially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[422,423,424,248],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology-discipline","tag-biology","tag-gender","tag-sexuality","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}