Gender panic, gender policy

by Demos, Vasilikie Segal, Marcia Texler

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Full title :Gender panic, gender policy / edited by Vasilikie Demos, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Minnesota, Morris, Morris, MN, USA, Marcia Texler Segal, School of Social Science, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, USA.

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Using diverse theories and methods including analysis of online data, feminist critical discourse, fieldwork, grounded theory, and queer theory, this edited volume explores gender panic and policy in the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and subnational populations. Contributors consider a range of issues from the meaning of learning to play the traditional female role in order to develop a contemporary heteronormative romantic relationship to the difficulties of fairly accommodating non-binary people in traditionally gendered settings or the problem of implementing a gender-neutral rape law in a prison system that is structurally gendered. Gendered policies pertaining, particularly, to women and their fertility as a result of panics over low birthrates are explored as are issues relating to the validation of and problems with binary gender categories in elite sports. The impact of UN gender equality initiatives including LGBT equality on nation-states is also examined.