This is a package of two of Oxford"s popular textbooks: The Gendered Society and The Gendered Society Reader. The Gendered Society is a well-reasoned, authoritative, and keenly animated statement about gender relations today, written by one of the country"s foremost thinkers on the subject. Kimmel"s companion book, The Gendered Society Reader, provides students with a sense of different discourses on gender that have been produced by a wide range of disciplines. Packed together, these two texts are perfect for classroom use. They are informative and entertaining for scholars, students, and the general reader.