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<br>Gendered Worlds thoroughly incorporates a theoretical view of intersectionality and engages the concepts of masculinities, femininities and intersex. Certain other gender textbooks periodically update chapters, but certain ones rely a great deal on dated research. Gendered Worlds has a completely new approach. When you think about it, some of the traditional studies of gender are more than twenty years old and women have made advances and changed since these studies were done. The theoretical explanations and representative research chosen for this book were timely and more intellectually stimulating than some of these periodically revised textbooks...This text is exciting to read and think about. <br>Judith Ann Warner, Texas A&M<p><br>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. <br>Sarah Strand, University of Arizona<p><br>The writing of the text is approachable. The cost of the text is affordable for student's limited budgets. I would describe the book as an excellent primary text; one that provides current discussions about the issues impacting women and men globally. <br>Michele Marion, Paradise Valley Community College<p><br>Gendered Worlds is extremely useful for an introductory Women's Studies course because it contains all the essential material that we usually assign, incorporates newer concepts and deals with the global as well as the local. <br>Suzanne Cherrin, Women's Studies, University of Delaware<p>

<br>Gendered Worlds thoroughly incorporates a theoretical view of intersectionality and engages the concepts of masculinities, femininities and intersex. Certain other gender textbooks periodically update chapters, but certain ones rely a great deal on dated research. Gendered Worlds has a completely new approach. When you think about it, some of the traditional studies of gender are more than twenty years old and women have made advances and changed since these studies were done. The theoretical explanations and representative research chosen for this book were timely and more intellectually stimulating than some of these periodically revised textbooks...This text is exciting to read and think about. <br>Judith Ann Warner, Texas A&M<p><br>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

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Judy Root Aulette is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at UNC-Charlotte. She is author of Changing American Families, Third Edition (2010). Judith Wittner is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Loyola University-Chicago. She is coeditor, with R. Stephen Warner, of Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (1998).

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