The Gender Knot, 3rd Edition + The Forest and the Trees, 3rd Edition (Set of 2 Books)

New Third Edition! If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist’s response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This Third Edition features: * Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama’s election, and gay marriage to transgender and the Occupy Movement * A glossary of terms * The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath * An additional analysis of how men’s violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men * Chapter 7’s focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilege #######New Third Edition!