num_pages: 448
description: Are men and women really from different planets? How are they different? And what do these differences mean? Why is it that every society distinguishes people on the basis of gender? Why is it that virtually every known society is also based on male domination? These are questions that havecaptivated social scientists for generations and these are the questions that The Gendered Society Reader, 2/e , attempts to answer. This reader provides students with a sense of the various discourses on gender that have been produced by a wide range of disciplines including the biological sciences,anthropology, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and sociology. Designed as a companion volume to Kimmel's textbook, The Gendered Society , this second edition features thirteen new readings, both classic and contemporary. It focuses on the two major issues in gender studies-gender differenceand male domination.Mirroring the overall structure of The Gendered Society , the first sections of the reader are organized by discipline, collecting classic statements of different theoretical perspectives and research inquiries. The final sections address various substantive issues such as work, education, thefamily, and love and sex. Contributors include Margaret Mead, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Joan Acker, Robert M. Sapolsky, Scott Coltrate, Judith Lorber, James Garbarino, and many more. In its focus on both empirical and theoretical issues as well as its broad interdisciplinary perspective, The GenderedSociety Reader, 2/e , is informative and entertaining for scholars, students, and general readers.
language: English
title: The Gendered Society Reader
titlecomplete: The Gendered Society Reader
genres: Sociology, Psychology, Feminism, Pop Culture, Gender Studies, College, Gender, Anthologies, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 159
publisher: Oxford University Press