A core text for courses in gender studies, which uses identity as an entry point for examining gender construction.

• Introduction PART ONE Theorizing Gender Identity: Classical and Contemporary Theories


• 1 Classical Approaches and Their Critiques


• 2 Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Approaches


• 3 Theories of Identity and Difference


• PART TWO The Politics of Gender Identity


• 4 Gender and the Politics of Belonging: Place, Nationhood, Culture, and Globalization


• 5 Contradictory Discourses: Religion and Spiritual Belief, Sex and Sexuality


• 6 Gender Movements and Media Representations


• PART THREE The Practices of Gender Identity


• 7 Public/Private Self; Love, Intimacy, and Relationships; Friendship and Association


• 8 Understanding the Relationship between the Private and the Public: Family, Work, Management, and Organization


• 9 Education and Schooling; Sport and Leisure


• 10 Bodies, Embodiment, Violence, and Aging


• PART FOUR New Directions in Gender Identity


• 11 Globalized and Diasporic; Cyber Wo/man; Postmodern Man; Postmodern Woman


• Glossary


• Index

Stephen Whitehead is senior lecturer in education in the School of Public Policy and Professional Practice at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. He has published extensively in the field of gender, including both popular and more academic titles.
Anissa Talahite has taught at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and at the University of Toronto, out of the English department. She is currently a sessional lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at U of T. Anissa has written on postcolonial literature and theory, particularly women's literature in the context of migration.

Roy Moodley is associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy.