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Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective (4th Edition)

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I am a professor in the behavior and social science department for SUNY. I wanted a current book for my class and purchased this. Disappointed it didn't come with power point but did include a wonderful test bank. The author backs her statements with research and offers various perspectives. I am looking for another book but so far have not found one that offers the extensive content this one does and is less bias.

Yes, lets get serious. This textbook provides a serious, in-depth look at male-female relations. I am a university professor in California, and I have successfully used this book in my classes. The book is not perfect, but its major fault is the lack of a new edition.

An amazing perspective on gender! Even if you aren't taking a class that requires this book, it is a great book to have if you enjoy people watching, or are interested in learning more about people in general.

I purchased this book for an upper division Sociology course. I was completely disappointed. Numerous typo errors and contradictions of fact are found throughout the text.

Excellent work: deep, serious, penetrating. People should make comments on the book without having read it. Not an easy read. It is a serious work and requires time and patience (and some familiarity with sociological ideas and concepts). Two negative, pre-mature, anti-intellectual reviews should be removed immediately. This is not a political polemic or grocery store paperback. You have got to read the book and it will take time to digest the arguments.

The book is very clean and hardly used. The earlier edition does not seem to have much difference from the newer version, but it's still a good idea to cross reference the books if you can (from library's book reserves). Otherwise, very happy that it came on time.

I purchased this textbook through Amazon for a college class and it arrived in the mail the wrong textbook.I was extremely upset that I one had searched it using the ISBN number, and it came up this book. I was highly upset to see that the search sent me the wrong book. I don't have any contact number to return the book too, and it cost me a little over 43 dollars. And secondly because this was the wrong textbook, I had to purchase another textbook from a different company which caused me to do my work late from that class and ultimately get dropped.

Wow, this book is absolutely the most sexist book I have ever read. Some of the things that she spouts are completely ridiculous. Not only does she present "facts" that are nothing more then something she conjured up; she is constantly refuting proven facts and studies, stating that she is right and they are wrong.

I don't know if she has something against males or is just a hateful woman. I can't believe that anyone would actually publish such garbage.

The book is called gender roles, but feminist roles is more accurate. The book only provides for one point of view and it constantly states how men are evil and constantly holding women down and making this world terrible.

Read it if you want a good laugh and you can stand someone blabbing about some fantasies that she has for the ending of male society, possibly then ending of the male gender.

Perhaps another person with a chip in their shoulder, hiding behind academic credentials.
Example: ch4 Dr. Lindsey spouts such gems as...

"It would be insulting for grown men to be called boys but we routinely refer to grown women as girls. College students take for granted the "guys-girls" distinction so that males do not have to be referred to as "boys." In this manner, linguistic practice routinely implies that females are immature, helpless, and incapable. Males are complete beings who readily take on adult qualities and females are sexual childlike objects who linguistically retain an immature status through-out their lives." **How about this one?.....
"A poet becomes a poetess and an usher an usherette. Again, women are defined as a kind of male appendage that are the exceptions to the male-as-norm rule- imitators not to be taken seriously." Get real!