Recommended Reading

  • Edin, Kathryn and Kefalas, Maria. 2011.  Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

    • An account, based on in-depth interviews, of the child-rearing and marriage values and norms of poor women.

  • Ferguson, Ann. 2001. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

    • Explores the racialized treatment of black and white boys in public schools.

  • Barndt, Deborah. 2007. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail 

    • An intersectionality tour-de-force that follows the production of tomatoes in Mexico to their consumption in the U.S.

  • Jordan-Young, Rebecca. 2011. Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    • A sweeping analysis of the evidence that gender differences are “hard-wired” in our brains

  • Kimmel, Michael.2013. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. New York: Nation Books

    • One of the leading sociologists of gender analyzes masculinity in the era of deindustrialization and increasing diversity