Eh, for the hell of it I tracked down a core reading list for gender studies for sociology. This is literally just the "Core" list of books you are requried to read before you are considered to have a doctorate in gender sociology. These are literally just the very basics... and they pretty much all go against your arguement... which is probably why the people you cited were writing out of discipline... if they actually had to study what they were argueing before they made the arguement... the wouldn't make the arguement because they'd realize it's dumb.
They were the only people that could be found to do so.
As for trying to disprove them all.... it would probably take you a while.
Along with them, it would be helpful for you to read
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm
The origin of gender studies And the scientific journals Signs and Gender & Society.
CORE READINGS
Overviews, edited collections
Adams, Rachel, David Savran, eds. 2002. The Masculinity Studies Reader, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers.
England, Paula. 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, deGruyter Inc.,
Chapters 1-11, 14.
Fenstermaker, S. and C. West (eds.) 2002. Doing Gender, Doing Difference:
Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change. New York: Routledge [introduction]
Feree, Myra Marx, Judith Lorber and B.B. Hess (eds.) 1999 Revisioning Gender, J.
Revisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Kimmel M. 2000 The Gendered Society. NY:Oxford University Press.
Messner, Michael, Jeff Hearn and Raewyn Connell. 2005. Handbook of Studies on
Men and Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Nicholson, Linda. (ed). 1997. The Second Wave: a Reader in Feminist Theory. New
York: Routledge
Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Boulder:
Westview 1998.
Gender differentiation – classic perspectives
Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Engels, F (1884) ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State’.
Availabi in many readers on Marxism, including R.C.Tucker (Ed.) The Marx-Engels
Reader, 1978
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Note
Enough,” The Sciences 33 July: 20-25
Ortner, S. (1974) “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” in M.Rosaldo and
L. Lamphere (eds.), Women, Culture and Society, Stanford University Press, pp.
67-88.
West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender & Society
1(2):125-151.
Zelditch, Morris, "Role Differentiation in the Nuclear Family," Chapter 6, pp.
307-315 in Talcott Parsons and R. F. Bales, Family Socialization and Interaction
Process, New York: Free Press 1955.
Socialization/social constructionist perspectives
Kessler, Suzanne J. and Wendy McKenna. 1985. Gender: An Ethnomethodological
Approach. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
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Messner, M. (1990). “Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of
Masculinities.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18(4): 416-444.
Schwalbe, Michael. 2005. “Identity Stakes, Manhood Acts, and the Dynamics of
Accountability.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, vol. 28, edited by Norman K.
Denzin.
Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers Press.
West, C. and S. Fenstermaker. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender and Society
9:8-37.
Collins, Patricia Hill et al. 1995. “On West and Fenstermaker’s Doing
Difference.” Gender and Society 9:491-514.
Materialist and institutional perspectives
Connell, R. W. and James Messerschmidt. “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the
Concept.” 2005. Gender & Society 19(6):1-31.
Connell, R. W. 1987. Gender and Power. Stanford University Press
Connell, R. W. 1994. ‘Gender Regimes and the Gender Order’ pp. 29-40. In The
Polity Reader in Gender Studies. Polity Press.
Connell, R. W. 2005. Masculinities, 2nd edition. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Connell, R. W. 2002. Gender, MA: Blackwell.
Ingraham, Chrys. 1994. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and
Theories of Gender.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 203-19.
Lorber, Judith. 1995. Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press.
Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as Social Institution.” Social Forces 82
(June):1249-1273.
Risman, Barbara. 2004. "Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with
Social Change." Gender & Society 18(4):429-450.
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, Ch. 2-4.
Intersectionality and difference
Acker, Joan. 1999. “Rewriting class, race, and gender: Problems in feminist
rethinking,” in Ferree et al. (ed.) Revisioning Gender.
Acker, Joan. 2006. “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in
Organizations.” Gender & Society 20(4): 441-464.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. 1999. The Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books.
Davis, Angela Y. 1983. Women, Race, & Class. New York: Vintage Books.
Ferber, Abby. 1998. White man falling: race, gender, and white supremacy. Rowman
and Littlefield.
Frankenberg, Ruth. 1993. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness. Minneapolis, U Minn. Press (selected chapters).
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1999. “The social construction and institutionalization of
gender and race: An integrative framework,” in Ferree et al. (ed.) Revisioning
Gender.
Hill Collins, Patricia. 2000. Black Feminist Thought, 2nd ed. Routledge.
Chapters 1-3, 10.
hooks, Bell, Ain’t I a Woman
Lorde, Audre. 1984. 'Age, race, class and sex: women redefining difference', in
A. Lorde, Sister Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, p 14-23.
Schippers, Mimi. 2007. “Recovering the Feminine Other: Masculinity, Femininity,
and Gender Hegemony.” Theoretical Sociology 36:85-102.
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Queering gender
Bornstein, Kate. 1995. Gender Outlaw, Vintage: NY .
Butler, Judith. 1989. Gender Trouble. Routledge.
Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New
York: Routledge.
Heasley, Robert. 2005. “Crossing the Borders of Gendered Sexuality: Queer
Masculinities of Straight Men” in Thinking Straight, ed. C. Ingraham. Routledge.
King, Dave, and Richard Elkins. 1999. “Towards a sociology of transgendered
bodies,” Sociological Review Vol. 47.
Valocchi, Steven. 2005. "Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for
the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality." Gender & Society 19:750.
Gender and research methods
Grant, Linda, Kathryn B. Ward and Zue Lan Rong. 1987. “Is There an Association
between Gender and Methods in Sociological Research?” American Sociological
Review 52:856-862.
Harding, Sandra (ed). 1987. Feminism and Methodology, Indiana Univ. Press.
Hurtado, Aida, and A.J. Stewart. 1997. “Through the looking glass: Implications
of studying whiteness for feminist methods,” In M. Fine et al. (eds.) Off White:
Readings on Race, Power and Society. N.Y.: Routledge.
Naples, Nancy (ed). 2004. Feminism and Method. New York: Routledge.
Reinharz, Shulamit. 1992. Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. “The Everyday World as Problematic.” Pp 105-145 in The
Everyday World as Problematic: Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern
University Press.
Gender and gay identity
Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin. 1993. The Lesbian
and gay Studies Reader. Routledge.
Connell, Robert W. 1992. “A Very Straight Gay: Masculinity, Homosexual
Experience, and the Dynamics of Gender.” American Sociological Review,
57:734-751.
d'Emilio, John, and Estelle Freedman. 1989. Intimate Matters. NY: Harper & Row.
Gagne, Patricia, Richard Tewksbury, Deanna McGaughey. 1997. “Coming out and
crossing over: identity formation and proclamation in a transgender community.”
Gender & Society 11(4).
Mimi Schippers 2000 Rockin Out of the Box: Gender Maneurvering in Alternative
Hard Rock. Rutgers University Press.
Rupp, Leila and Verta Taylor. 2003. Drag Queens at the 801 Caberet. University
of Chicago Press.
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor. 1999. “Forging Feminist Identity in an
International Movement: A Collective Identity Approach to Twentieth-Century
Feminism.” Signs 24:363- 86.
Seidman, Steven, “Identity and Politics in a “Postmodern Gay Culture: Some
Historical and Conceptual Notes,” pp. 105-142 in Warner, Michael, ed. Fear of a
Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of
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Stein, Arlene. 1997. “Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism.”
Pp. 378- 91 in the Gender/Sexuality Reader. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster and
Micaela di Leonardo. New York: Routledge.
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Gender and International/Globalization/Development
Basu, Amrita. 2000. “Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global:
Mapping Transnational Women of Color.” Meridians: feminism, race,
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Bose, Christine, and Edna Acosta-Belén (eds.). 1995. Women in the Latin America
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Charrad, Mounira. 2001. States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Post-Colonial
Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. UC Press.
Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling, and Deanna M. Lyter. 2002. “Studying Development with
Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks.” In
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia, edited by Esther Ngan-Ling
Chow. New York: Routledge.
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2002. Global Women.
Metropolitan Books.
Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing
Women's Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lind, Amy and Jessica Share. 2004. “Queering Development: Institutionalized
Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice, and Politics in Latin America.”
Ch. 3 in Bhavnani, Foran, and Kurian (eds) Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women,
Culture, and Development.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses.” In Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited
by Chandra Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Bloomington, Indiana
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Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2003. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory,
Practicing Solidarity. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Mohanty, Chandra, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds.). 1991. Third World Women
and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Sassen, Saskia. 2002. “Global cities and survival circuits, “ in Global Woman,
edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Metropolitan Books.
Gender, work and labor
Acker, Joan Heirarchies, bodies and jobs.” Gender & Society 1990
Acker, Joan 1989. Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity.
Bianchi, Suzanne M. 2000. “Is anyone doing the housework? Trends in the gender
division of household labor.” Social Forces 79 (Sept.): 191-228.
Browne, Irene and Joye Misra, 2003. "The intersection of gender and race in the
labor market.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:487-513.
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. "Individuals, jobs, and labor
markets: The devaluation of women's work." American Sociological Review 68(3):
443-463.
Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there
a Motherhood Penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112, 5: 1297-1338.
DeVault, Marjorie L. 1994. Feeding the family: the social organization of caring
as gendered work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein. 1997. “Work, Welfare, and Single Mothers’
Economic Survival Strategies.” American Sociological Review, 62: 253-266.
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild, Global Women: Nannies, Maids
and Sex workers in the New Economy. NY: Metropolitan Books. 2003
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England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine
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England, Paula. 2000. “Marriage, the costs of children, and gender inequality,”
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England, Paula. 2005. “Emerging theories of care work.” Annual Review of
Sociology 31:381-99.
England, Paula. 2005. “Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: the Role of
Motherhood and Segregation.” Social Politics 12, 2: 264-88.
Folbre, Nancy. 2001. The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. New York:
The New Press.
Gerson, Kathleen. 2010. The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is
Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender. Oxford University Press.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: Historical
Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor.” Signs.
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Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2002. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American
Citzenship and Labor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home
Becomes Work. New York: Metropolitan Books.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1983. The managed heart: commercialization of human
feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hochschild, Arlie. 2003. The Second Shift. New York: Penguin Books.
Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin, and Erin Kelly. 2006. “Best Practices or Best
Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity
Policies. American Sociological Review 71(August): 589-617.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1993. Men and Women of the Corporation.
Keene, Jennifer Reid and Jill S. Quadagno. 2004. “Predictors of Perceived
Work-Family Balance: Gender Difference or Gender Similarity” Sociological
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Keene, Jennifer Reid and John R. Reynolds. 2005. “The Job Costs of Family
Demands: Gender Differences in Negative Family-to-Work Spillover.” Journal of
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Kondo, Dorrine. 1990. Crafting Selves: Gender, Work and Discourses of Identity
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Lopez, Steven H. 2006. “Emotional labor and organized emotional care:
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Martin, Patricia Yancey, and David L. Collinson. 1999. “Gender and Sexuality in
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Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2003. “Said and done” vs. “saying and doing”: Gendering
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Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social Institution.” Social Forces
82:1249- 73.
Padavic, Irene and Barbara Reskin. 2002. Women and Men at Work, 2nd edition.
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Pierce, Jennifer. Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms.
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Reskin, Barbara, and Patricia Roos. 1992. Job Queues, Gender Queues.
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Romero, Mary. 1992. Maid in the USA. New York: Routledge.
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Tomaskovic-Devey, Don, and Sheryl Skaggs. 2002 “Sex Segregation, Labor Process,
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Wharton, Amy S. 1993. "The Affective Consequences of Service Work: Managing
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Wharton, Amy S. 2009. "The Sociology of Emotional Labor." Annual Review of
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Williams, Christine. 1992. “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in
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Wingfield, Adia Harvey. 2009. “Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering
Men.s Experiences with Women.s Work.” Gender & Society 23:5-26.
Gender, family and relationships
Bernstein, Mary and Renate Reimann, eds. 2001. Queer Families, Queer Politics:
Challenging Culture and the State. Columbia University Press.
Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women
Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Carrington, Christopher. No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among
Lesbians and Gay Men. 1999. University of Chicago Press.
Coltrane, Scott. 1989. “Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender”.
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Coontz, Stephanie. 1992. The Way We Never Were. Basic Books.
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perspectives on family research,” Journal of Marriage and Family 62 (November):
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Gerson, Kathleen. 1993. No Mans Land: Men’s Changing Commitment to Family and
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Glauber, Rebecca 2008. “Race and gender in families and at work: The fatherhood
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Relationships. Alta Mira Press.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, and Ernestine Avila. 1997. “’I’m Here, but I’m
There: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood.” Gender and Society Vol.
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Keene, Jennifer and John R. Reynolds. “Job Costs The Job Costs of Family Demands
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Gender and politics
Brush, Lisa 2003. Gender and governance. Alta Mira.
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McCammon, Holly J., Karen E. Campbell, Ellen M. Granberg and Christine Mowery.
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Gender and violence
Anderson, Kristin & Debra Umberson. 2001. “Gendering violence: Masculinity and
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