The Gendered Society Reader
ISBN: 9780199927494 | 0199927499
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/22/2013
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The battle between the sexes has raged on for centuries; however, are men and women really from different planets? In The Gendered Society Reader, Fifth Edition, coeditors Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson pull together an array of dynamic voices--both male and female, classic and contemporary--to examine various interpretations of gender. These lively, in-depth readings explore gender discourse over a wide range of disciplines, focusing primarily on two central issues: difference and domination. Carefully balanced to reflect the diversi... MORE
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Introduction, Michael Kimmel
Part 1. Anatomy and Destiny: Biological Arguments About Gender Difference
Caveman Masculinity: Finding Manhood in Evolutionary Science, Martha McCaughey
Testosterone Rules, Robert M. Sapolsky
* The Appalling Appeal of Nature: The Popular Influence of Evolutionary Psychology as a Problem for Sociology, Stevi Jackson and Amanda Rees
Part 2. Cultural Constructions of Gender
Men as ... MORE
Michael Kimmel is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. A leading researcher and writer on gender and men and masculinity, he is the author of numerous books and articles including The Gendered Society, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2013), Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2009), and Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Third Edition (OUP, 2012).
Amy Aronson is Professor of Media Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Taking Liberties: Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readers (2002) and the coeditor, with Michael Kimmel, of Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia (2004).
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