Women's/Gender/Sexuality Studies

This interdisciplinary text-reader provides an introduction to women's & gender studies within a global context by examining the diversity of women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the reading selections. Each chapter includes reading questions and suggestions for taking action, t...

In The Gendered Society Reader, Sixth Edition, coeditors Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson pull together an array of dynamic voices--both male and female, classic and contemporary--to examine various interpretations of gender. These lively, in-depth readings explore gender discourse over a wide range of disciplines, focusing primarily on two central issues: difference and domination. Carefully balanced to reflect the diversity of its subject, t...

The sixth edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael 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.

Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely ...

Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of gendered experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, while features like learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical struc...

This core text for sociology of gender or intro to gender studies courses takes a balanced, global, intersectional approach to gender.

The authors:

1) look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally;

2) examine the impact of globalization on local and everyday life experiences; and

3) identify how local actors re-imagine social possibilities, resist injustice, and work toward change. Integrating th...

Teaching an introductory course in gender and women's studies today presents a number of challenges. Students come to class with preconceived notions about feminism, and many believe the course is only about issues related to women, with little understanding of the importance of an intersectional perspective. Some students are resistant to the material, with little exposure to identities different from their own. In addition, some students do not...

Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies is the most contemporary, interdisciplinary, and intersectional introduction to women’s and gender hybrid text/reader on the market. By providing historical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspectives, it guides instructors and helps students to have a deeper and clearer understanding of the field.

Now published by Oxford University Press -- at a new, lower price -- Men's Lives reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?" Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, and organized around themes that define masculinity, this best-selling reader uses a social-constructionist view to examine how men construct masculinity within a social and historical context.

Pushing the boundaries of traditional sex, gender, and sexuality theories, this edited volume brings together classic and cutting-edge works that will engage and challenge students. Now in its third edition, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics features many vibrant voices in the ongoing dialogue between gender and sexuality studies, constructing a compelling new model for making sense of gender and sexuality. It integrates a variety of sel...