Sociology Now: The Essentials Census Update (2nd Edition)
Michael S. Kimmelis a Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook.  He is the author ofGuyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men(HarperCollins, 2008) which was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on over one hundred radio and newspaper and blog reviews.  His other books includeChanging Men(1987),Men’s Lives(8thedition, 2009)Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990(1992),The Politics of Manhood(1996),Manhood: A Cultural History(1996, 10thanniversary second edition, 2006), andThe Gendered Society(3rdedition, 2008).  He co-editedThe Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities(2004) andHandbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities(2004).  He is the founder and editor ofMen and Masculinities, the field’s premier scholarly journal, a book series on Gender and Sexuality at New York University Press, and edited the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities.  He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-author, Amy Aronson, and their 10 year old son, Zachary.  Amy Aronsonis Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University. She is the author ofTaking Liberties: Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readersand an editor of the international quarterly,Media History. She has co-edited several books, including a centennial edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman'sWomen  and Economics  and the two-volumeEncyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, which was honored by the New York Public Library with a Best of Reference Award in 2004. A former editor atWorking WomanandMs., her work has also appeared in publications includingBusiness Week,Global Journalistand the Sunday supplement ofThe Boston Globe.