Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World

This book is about expressing your gender your way and engaging with others who express their gender their way. It invites you to consider and understand the multiplicity of gender in everyday life. It is an excellent discussion about how we traditionally view gender and how we can view gender. It was written for students. It should be required reading for HR Professionals and Workplace Leaders. It will most certainly open your eyes, and with a little luck, your mind.

I got this book for a class and it is good, but it is rather repetitive sometimes. It REALLY emphasizes the gender binary and goes over this several times, which is unnecessary because this is a fairly simple concept. After a while I just skipped any headings mentioning this. Other than that, it's pretty good for a textbook. Don't think I would pick it up for pleasure reading.

I bought this book for a class, and I expected a boring and outdated book. However, this was an easy read that taught me a lot about gender and our culture. I would recommend it.

Absolutely wonderful, educational, and embracing of all gender identities. I think this should be a must read and discussed book in all high schools. College is too late. Best book I've ever read on this subject and I have read nearly everything written on this subject. EXCELLENT.

Great insight into the study of sex, gender, and orientation. Would recommend it to anyone that has an interested learning about how sex and gender or two separate things.

Super book, and easy transaction. Can't wait to begin reading/citing!

Very interesting read. Super informative

This text is a fantastic choice for undergraduate courses involving gender for two main reasons. The first is its ability to engage a wide-readership. Its approach does not privilege a particular point of view and includes many voices. (It handles this truly superbly--better than any text I have read.) Whether it is a student who has never considered these issues before or one who is intensely interested in the subject, Gender Stories offers a way in without alienating or disrespecting a point of view, however so liberal or conservative. It aims to create understanding and to encourage conversation via the way stories on any topic normally function for us. As the authors say, “stories have the power to make you experience a ‘vividly felt insight’ into the lives of other people.”This insight may apply to others or to oneself. And here the book’s second strength is seen, and that is regarding agency. The extended metaphor of story allows the student to see life as something that is authored, and so something which may have other endings, other middles. It supports thoughtful, socially integrated choices that may be applied in the sphere of gender or beyond. By integrated I don’t mean confirming to a particular view, but choices which consider impact--which consider other agents forming other stories and the way the stories may come together. What might it look like when these two puzzle pieces meet? Gender Stories aptly calls these “informed choices.”Overall, both the structure and content of this text will help support a more active classroom experience.