The Gendered Society
by Michael Kimmel
6th Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780190260316 |
| eText ISBN | 9780190260354 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Edition | 6th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 560 |
The Gendered Society, 6th Edition, explores contemporary perspectives on gender across academic research and everyday life. Michael Kimmel incorporates both masculine and feminine viewpoints, examining gender as an institutional, socially constructed phenomenon rather than merely an individual identity trait.
The textbook investigates explanatory frameworks spanning biology, culture, and psychoanalysis before surveying gender dynamics across institutional domains such as education, the family, the workplace, religion, politics, and the media. It also addresses interpersonal interactions including friendship, love, the body, and violence.
Used in college courses on the sociology of gender in the United States, this volume adds "Read All About It!" boxes linking topics to The Gendered Society Reader, Sixth Edition.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Human Beings: An Engendered Species
Chapter 2: Ordained by Nature: Biology Constructs the Sexes
Chapter 3: Spanning the World: Culture Constructs Gender Difference
Chapter 4: "So, That Explains It": Psychoanalytic and Development Perspectives on Gender
Chapter 5: The Social Construction of Gender Relations
Chapter 6: The Gendered Family
Chapter 7: The Gendered Classroom
Chapter 8: Gender and Religion
Chapter 9: Separate and Unequal: The Gendered World of Work
Chapter 10: The Gender of Politics and the Politics of Gender
Chapter 11: The Gendered Media
Chapter 12: Gendered Intimacies: Friendship and Love
Chapter 13: The Gendered Body
Chapter 14: The Gender of Violence
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