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The Gendered Society

ISBN: 9780199927463 | 0199927464
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/28/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Featuring a timely new chapter on gender and politics, the fifth edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael Kimmel challenges the claim that gender is limited to women's experiences--his compelling and balanced study of gender includes both masculine and feminine perspectives.

Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely exaggerated; in fact, he argues that me... MORE

1. Introduction: Human Beings: An Engendered Species

Part 1: E xplanations of Gender

2. Ordained by Nature: Biology Constructs the Sexes
3. Spanning the World: Culture Constructs Gender Difference
4. "So, That Explains It": Psychoanalytic and Developmental Perspectives on Gender
5. The Social Construction of Gender Relations

Part 2: Gendered Identities, Gendered Institutions

6. The Gendered Family: Biology Constructs the Sexes
7. The Gendered Classroom
8. Gender ... 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 Reader, Fifth Edition (with Amy Aronson, OUP, 2013), Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2009), and Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Third Edition (OUP, 2012).

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