-to help students understand the socially constructed nature of gender. With a focus on contemporary topics

Fourth Edition has streamlined the text to make it more accessible to students without sacrificing the

"Essential reading for both students and scholars, The Gendered Society, Fourth Edition, is an

, attempts to answer. This reader provides students with a sense of the various discourses on gender that

students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity