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The Gendered Society
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 ...more
Paperback, 406 pages
Published
September 10th 2007
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published January 20th 2000)
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Great, balanced. Unique perspective about gender inequality *causing* gender differences instead of vice versa.
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new gender studies recruits, especially men
This book was obviously written to be a textbook for a 200-level sociology class, and as such it is very accessible (for scholarly writing) and also very broad in scope. Still, it's a delight to finally read a pro-feminist work on gender that treats men and masculinity as something as worthy of investigation as women and femininity. I'm really excited to read some of Kimmel's work that focuses more on masculinity specifically.
This is possibly the most important book I've ever read. It completely changed the way I think about gender and the way our society views gender norms. I highly recommend it to everyone; it will make you think about things in a totally different way.
This book was amazing! It was eye opening (even for a so-called feminist). I'd recommend it to everyone, especially men. It brought all points of view and raised issues that I didn't even know existed. Definately a must read for anyone.
Certainly one of the more interesting gender studies texts, and a great rounding out of the field by the heightened awareness of masculinity studies.
I learned a lot from this book, and it opened my eyes to many gender issues that I'd never considered before.
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This is a book for a Sociology class I'm taking this semester. I'll post on it soon.
Kimmel is cute and got me all excited about gender and stuff.
It was for a class but it was actually intriguing.
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Michael Scott Kimmel is an American sociologist, specializing in gender studies. He is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include The Politics of Manhood, and The History of Men (2005).
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