Books like New Gender Paradox by Judith Lorber

bell hooks analyzes patriarchal stereotypes of masculinity and their impact on everyone, offering thoughtful and constructive ideas for alternative masculinity models that invite reflection and new perspectives.

Judith Butler’s seminal text challenges essentialist views of sex and gender, proposing that identity is constructed through repeated social performances.

Gender Outlaw is a memoir and manifesto by trans woman Kate Bornstein that combines coming‑of‑age narrative with outspoken essays on gender identity, sexuality and hormone therapy.

An accessible critique of the myth of innate gender differences, using neuroscience and psychology to show how socio-cultural forces shape our minds.

Judith Lorber examines gender as a social institution, dissecting paradoxes that challenge the binary view of sex, the cultural construction of women, and the persistent inequalities in family, work, and power.

This looks at how mothers and young children talk about gender, to discover the potential role of language in fostering gender stereotypes. Mothers and their sons/daughters, who were 2-1/2, 4-1/2, or 6-1/2 years of age, were videotaped discussing a picture book that focused on gender.

Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarship highlights how gender intersects with other systems of privilege and oppression. This exciting new text combines these insights with an innovative, student-centered pedagogical approach. Taking knowledge acquisition as an important first step, the book goes beyond this to provide students with tools and skills necessary to become critical thinkers and, ultimately, investigate gender on their own from a global feminist sociological perspective. -- Back cover.

This undergraduate textbook uses anthropological kinship as a framework for the cross-cultural study of gender. Connecting kinship with gender, Linda Stone focuses on human reproduction and the social and cultural implications of male and female reproductive roles. Her insightful narrative introduces new ways of approaching and understanding cross-cultural variations.

A pioneering study of 19th‑century American gender relations, examining male attitudes toward masculinity, women's roles and sexuality, and the social context that shaped sexual customs in the United States.

Chloe Bird and Patricia Rieker argue that to improve men's and women's health, individuals, researchers, and policymakers must understand the social and biological sources of the perplexing gender differences in illness and longevity. Although individuals are increasingly aware of what they should do to improve health, competing demands for time, money, and attention discourage or prevent healthy behavior. Drawing on research and cross-national examples of family, work, community, and government policies, the authors develop a model of constrained choice that addresses how decisions and actions at each of these levels shape men's and women's health-related opportunities. Understanding the cumulative impact of their choices can inform individuals at each of these levels how to better integrate health implications into their everyday decisions and actions. Their platform for prevention calls for a radical reorientation of health science and policy to help individuals pursue health and to lower the barriers that may discourage that pursuit.

Lewis Howes explores the inner masks men wear, offering guidance for personal growth and better communication with women.