Now in its second Canadian edition, The Gendered Society is an authoritative study of contemporary gender relations that challenges a common tendency to treat gender as an issue for women alone. Organized into three parts, the text explores concepts of gender through a variety of disciplines while discussing how gender permeates our everyday lives as a socially constructed phenomenon.

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Michael S. Kimmel is a distinguished professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University.

Jacqueline Holler is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Holler has held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship and she is a winner of the American Historical Association Gutenberg-e Prize. Her research areas include women and gender in Latin American history; medicine, morbidity, melancholia, pre-modern political culture, ethnicity and gender; and women and Catholicism.

"The text is written in an accessible and respectful manner that in general does not lay blame or accuse, but rather links together the underlying structures keeping the dichotomous and oppositional gender myth alive." --Barbara Heather, MacEwan University (retired)

"Not only is the text well researched, it also provides excellent critique of the research including alternative readings, methodological problems, etc. . . . The text reflects accurately the current state of the discipline." --Anthony Roberts, Mount Allison University