Developed for courses in first-year writing, includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and analytical strategies required to participate effectively in discussions about gender and culture. Chapters include numerous pedagogical features and are organized thematically around the topics below: -Gender and identity -Gender and stereotypes -Gender and the body -Gender and popular culture -Gender and work -Gender and globalization is part of a series of brief, single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.