This third edition of Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. .The editors open this wide-ranging collection with an analytical introduction that sets the stage for understanding gender as a socially constructed experience. Featuring mostly new readings, the book covers timely subjects--such as gender and popular culture, Islam, and men and war. It also addresses a number of compelling topics, including the effects of globalization on notions of masculinity, the difficulties faced by Muslim women living in post-9/11 America, and the perceptions of 'blackness' worldwide.
This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as leadership and negotiation. This research presents readers with an alternative conceptual approach to gender in the workplace. It connects gender with other dimensions of difference such as race and class for a deeper understanding of diversity in organizations. It illustrates how traditional images of competence and the ideal worker result in narrow ways of thinking about work, limiting both opportunity and organizational effectiveness and it .provokes new ways of thinking about leadership, human resource management, negotiation, globalization and organizational change.