Helps define and illustrate basic concepts in anthropology and gender studies. Ex.___
Draws out the central themes of the book to promote individual thought and classroom discussion. Ex.___
Supplies students with a valuable resource for obtaining additional or advanced information on issues covered in the text. Ex.___
Prompts students to take a new critical look at mainstream American cultural values concerning gender. Ex.___
Explores how gender constructions of the white middle class have been shaped by the different positions that women and men have had with respect to this central value of mainstream American life. Ex.___
Shows students how other groups have reacted to individualism and how these reactions fit in with their own constructions of gender. Ex.___
Presents students with a study that shows important variation by gender in how students perceive and plan for their future world of work, marriage, and reproduction. Ex.___
Discusses alternative sexualities in the nineteenth century. Ex.___
