Gendered Worlds
"Gendered Worlds thoroughly incorporates a theoretical view of intersectionality and engages the concepts of masculinities, femininities and intersex...This text is exciting to read and think about."  --Judith Ann Warner, Texas AandM"This text provides an overview of how gender shapes, reflects, and intersects with various arenas of social life. Beginning with a basic theoretical overview (social constructionism), the text proceeds through various subdisciplines of sociology and the social world to examine how the social construction of gender affects both individuals and social institutions. Each chapter begins with an accessible, contemporary, 'real world' example of how gender is important, which draws students in and makes the chapter's contents socially relevant. I like this approach for an introductory gender course."  --Sarah Strand, University of Arizona"The writing of the text is approachable... I would describe the book as an excellent primary text; one that provides current discussions about the issues impacting women and men globally."  --Michele Marion, Paradise Valley Community College"I'm amazed at the number of issues introduced in this book. It gives enough information to allow those students who want to know more to do the necessary research to develop given topics. The length and writing makes it student friendly."  --Suzanne Cherrin, University of Delaware"I like the approach of this book. . . . It is interdisciplinary, inclusive, thorough, comprehensive, connective, multicultural, and feminist inclusive (both female and male), with the perspective that gendered relationships are diverse, complex, dynamic, and yet, in many instances, static. I cannot imagine a student not being interested [in reading it]."  --Kathryn M. Mueller, Baylor University"Gendered Worlds does an outstanding job of integrating and updating sociological and feminist theory and concepts about gender and applying it to empirical information. Students have responded to a degree and with a level of sophistication that I have appreciated."  --Judith Ann Warner, Texas A and M International University