The Gendered Society

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Oxford University Press, 2007 - 406 pages
Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael S. 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. Part 1 examines the latest work in biology, anthropology, psychology, and sociology; Part 2 provides an original analysis of the gendered worlds of family, education, and work; and Part 3 explores gender interactions, including friendship and love,
sexuality, and violence.

Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely exaggerated; in fact, he argues that men and women have much more in common than we think they do. Kimmel also challenges the pop psychologists who suggest that gender
difference is the cause of inequality between the sexes; instead, he reveals that the reverse is true--gender inequality itself is the cause of the differences between men and women. Finally, he illustrates that gender is not merely an element of individual identity, but a socially constructed
institutional phenomenon.

A new chapter on media examines the portrayal of gender in one of the most powerful--and provocative--social institutions. Of particular interest to students, Kimmel's analysis of this dynamic, image-driven industry makes the study of gender relevant in an immediate and tangible way.

Essential reading for both students and scholars, The Gendered Society is an authoritative, incisive, and lively statement about contemporary gender relations from one of the country's foremost thinkers on the subject. Kimmel's companion text, The Gendered Society Reader, Third Edition (OUP, 2008),
provides a perfect complement for classroom use.

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... differences based less on gender than on the social positions people occupy . Second , I will argue that gender difference is the product of gender inequality , and not the other way around . In fact , gender difference is the chief outcome ...
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... differences , exclusive gender identity is the suppression of natural similarities.26 The interplanetary theory of gender difference is important not because it's right — in fact , it is wrong far more often than it is right — but ...
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... gender inequality and produce gender differences . I've also pointed to evidence of a significant gender convergence taking place over the past half - century . Whether we look at sexual behavior , friendship dynamics , efforts to ...

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Contents

Biology Constructs the Sexes
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Culture Constructs Gender
54
Psychoanalytic
77
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About the author (2007)

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Second Edition (2006); coeditor, with Rebecca F. Plante, of Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (OUP, 2005); and coeditor, withMichael A. Messner, of Men's Lives, Sixth Edition (2003).

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TitleThe Gendered Society
AuthorMichael S. Kimmel
Edition3, illustrated
PublisherOxford University Press, 2007
ISBN0195332334, 9780195332339
Length406 pages
  
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