Assigned: Life With Gender

by Lisa Wade (Editor), Douglas Hartmann (Series Editor), Christopher Uggen (Series Editor)

Assigned: Life with Gender is the sixth volume in The Society Pages series. Selected from around the web by Lisa Wade, winner of the ASA's Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, the essays in this book present a revealing picture of gender in the United States today: socially constructed, sometimes fun but almost always problematic, fluid but forced into binaries, deeply ingrained but often misunderstood. Topics range from parenting and sports to inequality and breasts (both men's and women's). Together, these diverse and engaging voices capture the depth and complexity of gender from the sociological perspective.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gender, Sociology, Gender Studies, LGBT, Feminism

238 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received this book to review for class. Found it it be an engaging and accessible intro to gender.

[Tsundoku By the Day 📚 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for research purposes and because I won it in a giveaway. I found it very useful. :)

[Paula Cox]

I loved the essays.

[Shauna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had to read this as a part of a Women and Gender Studies class that I took in college, its a book of short stories. Many of them I found myself to be enjoying.