Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World

by Sonja K. Foss, Mary E. Domenico, Karen A. Foss

Book by Sonja K. Foss, Mary E. Domenico, Karen A. Foss

Genres: LGBT

264 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

Reviews

[Rowan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring and repetitive. Had some potential in the beginning but I think it really falls off the rails in the "pop culture" section. Makes grandiose claims about mediums that the authors clearly don't have a full understanding of, especially when discussing anime. I especially hated when the authors claimed that snowboarding culture require that women fit into a masculine sphere because it requires they be physically tough. Like, yea? Its a physically difficult sport? They also falsey say that asexuality is a choice! I'm not kidding. "For asexual individuals, their orientation is a choice." After that infuriating section, it just goes right back to being boring and repetitive for 100 pages.

[William Hawthorne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very very out of date, I’m sure it was novel at its time of release but reading it now feels like it’s just talking in circles and saying everything about a person is their gender which I’m just not sure I agree with. It’s just an ideology that we have have built upon quite significantly in the past decade or so

[Katie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read for Engendering Rhetorical Power. As an undergraduate introduction into gender studies, this book has a lot of problems, particularly in the condescending tone created through the use of the 2nd person.