The Gendered SocietyOxford 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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Page 118
... actually be a different sex from that which they appear to be . Looking at those images , one might be tempted to dismiss this as the stuff of fantasy . After all , in real life , people's genitals match their secondary sex ...
... actually be a different sex from that which they appear to be . Looking at those images , one might be tempted to dismiss this as the stuff of fantasy . After all , in real life , people's genitals match their secondary sex ...
Page 156
... actually a crisis of poverty . In his impressive ethnographic research on street gangs in Los Angeles , Martin Sanchez - Jankowski found " as many gang members from homes where the nuclear family was intact as there were from families ...
... actually a crisis of poverty . In his impressive ethnographic research on street gangs in Los Angeles , Martin Sanchez - Jankowski found " as many gang members from homes where the nuclear family was intact as there were from families ...
Page 188
... actually what sociologist Cynthia Fuchs Epstein calls a " deceptive distinction , " a difference that appears to be about gender but is actually about something else - in this case , class or race . The short- age of male college ...
... actually what sociologist Cynthia Fuchs Epstein calls a " deceptive distinction , " a difference that appears to be about gender but is actually about something else - in this case , class or race . The short- age of male college ...
Contents
Biology Constructs the Sexes | 19 |
Culture Constructs Gender | 54 |
Psychoanalytic | 77 |
Copyright | |
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