Price: $82.50

Format:
Paperback 544 pp.
231 mm x 188 mm

ISBN-10:
0199774048

ISBN-13:
9780199774043

Copyright Year:
2012

Imprint: OUP US

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Gendered Worlds

Second Edition

Judy Root Aulette and Judith Wittner

In Gendered Worlds, Second Edition, authors Judy Root Aulette and Judith Wittner use the sociological imagination to explore gender relations throughout the world. They look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally; examine the impact of globalization on local and everyday life experiences; and identify how local actors re-imagine social possibilities, resist injustice, and work toward change. Integrating theory with empirical studies that are of particular interest to college students--including research on violence, sports, and sexuality--the authors make gender concepts genuinely interesting and accessible. They also demonstrate how students can think critically about gender, both within and beyond the classroom.

Incorporating a broad range of pedagogical features, including boxed sections and end-of-chapter sections that focus on social movements, Gendered Worlds, Second Edition, is ideal for courses in sociology of gender, sociology of sex roles, and gender studies.

Readership : undergraduate students taking Gender Studies classes

Reviews

• "Gendered Worlds thoroughly incorporates a theoretical view of intersectionality and engages the concepts of masculinities, femininities and intersex...This text is exciting to read and think about."
  
  --Judith Ann Warner, Texas A&M
  
  
  
• "This text provides an overview of how gender shapes, reflects, and intersects with various arenas of social life. Beginning with a basic theoretical overview (social constructionism), the text proceeds through various subdisciplines of sociology and the social world to examine how the social construction of gender affects both individuals and social institutions. Each chapter begins with an accessible, contemporary, 'real world' example of how gender is important, which draws students in and makes the chapter's contents socially relevant. I like this approach for an introductory gender course."
  
  --Sarah Strand, University of Arizona
  
  
  
  
• "The writing of the text is approachable... I would describe the book as an excellent primary text; one that provides current discussions about the issues impacting women and men globally."
  
  --Michele Marion, Paradise Valley Community College
  
  
  
  
• "I'm amazed at the number of issues introduced in this book. It gives enough information to allow those students who want to know more to do the necessary research to develop given topics. The length and writing makes it student friendly."
  
  --Suzanne Cherrin, University of Delaware
  
  
  
  
• "I like the approach of this book. . . . It is interdisciplinary, inclusive, thorough, comprehensive, connective, multicultural, and feminist inclusive (both female and male), with the perspective that gendered relationships are diverse, complex, dynamic, and yet, in many instances, static. I cannot imagine a student not being interested [in reading it]."
  
  --Kathryn M. Mueller, Baylor University
  
  
  
  
• "Gendered Worlds does an outstanding job of integrating and updating sociological and feminist theory and concepts about gender and applying it to empirical information. Students have responded to a degree and with a level of sophistication that I have appreciated."
  
  --Judith Ann Warner, Texas A & M International University