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