Gender in Society Reader

Gender in Society Reader

Author: Amy Kaler

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-10-22

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780195401431

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A fresh and engaging collection of readings about the sociology of gender in Canadian society and around the world.


The Gendered Society Reader

The Gendered Society Reader

Author: Amy Kaler

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780199006977

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This collection of classic and contemporary essays provides a detailed, engaging, and altogether current study of gender that focuses on Canadian themes and scholars.


Gender, Race, and Class in Media

Gender, Race, and Class in Media

Author: Gail Dines

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13: 9780761922612

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Gender, Race and Class in Media examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities. Through analyses of popular mass media entertainment genres, such as talk shows, soap operas, television sitcoms, advertising and pornography, students are invited to engage in critical mass media scholarship. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book′s integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response. The readings include a dozen new original essays, edited for maximum accessibility. The book provides: - A comprehensive, critical introduction to Media Studies - An analysis of race that is integrated into all chapters - Articles on Cultural Studies that are accessible to undergraduates - An extensive bibliography and section on media resources - Expanded coverage of "queer" representations in mass media - A new section on the violence debates - A new section on the Internet Together with new section introductions, these provide a comprehensive critical introduction to mass media studies.


Race, Class, and Gender in a Diverse Society

Race, Class, and Gender in a Diverse Society

Author: Diana Elizabeth Kendall

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780205198283

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Seeks to demonstrate the interconnectedness of race, class and gender at the micro-and macro- levels of society. This study presents articles which aim to reflect the diversity of life in the US, and to show how people are affected by the interlocking nature of race, class and


Feminist Foundations

Feminist Foundations

Author: Kristen A. Myers

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1998-03-10

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780761907862

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A collection of essays by feminist scholars on feminist sociology, reflecting the cultural and historical context in which feminist scholarship has taken place.


Culture, Society and Sexuality

Culture, Society and Sexuality

Author: Richard Guy Parker

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9781857288117

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This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.


The End of Gender

The End of Gender

Author: Debra Soh

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1982132523

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"International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Debra Soh [discusses what she sees as] gender myths in this ... examination of the many facets of gender identity"--


Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Author: Pauline B. Bart

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780803950450

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Violence against women permeates our society at every level, in every setting. Murder, rape, intimidation, pornography, workplace harassment, incest are all part of a general belief built into the roots of patriarchal society: Women are proper targets of male violence. The chapters in this book, contributed by some of the most prolific contemporary writers on women's issues, explore this culture of violence and oppression, examining its ideological underpinnings and its structural supports in the social, political and legal systems that protect the violent by blaming the victim.


Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Author: Cordelia Fine

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0393340244

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Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.