The Gendered Society - Brossura

Kimmel, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0199927464 ISBN 13: 9780199927463

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Featuring a timely new chapter on gender and politics, the fifth 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 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.

Essential reading for both students and scholars, The Gendered Society, Fifth Edition, is an authoritative, incisive, and lively statement about contemporary gender relations from one of the country's foremost thinkers on the subject.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Kimmel is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. A leading researcher and writer on gender and men and masculinity, he is the author of numerous books and articles includingThe Gendered Society Reader, Fifth Edition (with Amy Aronson, OUP, 2013),Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2009), and Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Third Edition (OUP, 2012).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199927464
• ISBN 13: 9780199927463
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 516