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Book SynopsisThe authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilitiesprovides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. Thekaleidoscopemetaphor and its three themesprisms, patterns, and possibilitiesunify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on theprismsthrough which gender is shaped, thepatternswhich gender takes, and thepossibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally.
Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner, and the work of Joan Spade, focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving.The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.
