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• Adams, Carol J. 1990. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-vegetarian Critical Theory. London: Polity Press.
• Anderson, Bridget. 1993. Britain’s Secret Slaves: An Investigation into the Plight of Overseas Domestic Workers in the United Kingdom. London: Anti-Slavery International.
• Anthias, Floya, and Nira Yuval-Davis. [1992] 2005. Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour, Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle. London: Routledge.
• Archer, Bert. 2002. The End of Gay (And the Death of Heterosexuality). London: Fusion.
• Basow, Susan A. 1992. Gender: Stereotypes and Roles. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
• Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
• Borstein, Kate. 1994. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge.
• Bozzoli, Belinda, and Mmantho Nkotsoe. 1991. Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900–1983. Johannesburg: Ravan.
• Bradley, Harriet G. 2012. Gender. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley.
• Britton, Hannah Evelyn, Jennifer Natalie Fish, and Sheila Meintjes, eds. 2009. Women’s Activism in South Africa. Working across Divides. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu Natal Press.
• Brod, Harry, and Michael Kaufman, eds. 1994. Theorizing Masculinity. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Brownmiller, Susan. 1975. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Butler, Judith. 2004. Undoing Gender. London: Routledge.
• Cock, Jacklyn. 1980. Maids and Madams: Domestic Workers under Apartheid. London: Women’s Press.
• Coe, Trudy. 1992. The Key to the Men’s Club: Opening the Doors to Women in Management. Corby, England: Institute of Management.
• Cole, Babette. [1988] 2006. Princess Smartypants. London: Puffin.
• Cosslett, Tess, Alison Easton, and Penny Summerfield, eds. 1996. Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women’s Studies. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
• Ellis, Havelock. 1905. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. New York: Random House.
• Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.
• Foucault, Michel. 1978. The History of Sexuality. New York: Pantheon.
• Gasa, Nombosino, ed. 2007. Women in South African History. Cape Town: HSRC.
• Gevisser, Mark, and Edwin Cameron, eds. 1995. Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa. New York: Routledge.
• Giddens, Anthony. 1992. The Transformation of Intimacy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Goffman, Erving. 1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Grusky, David B, ed. 2014. Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 4th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Henwood, Melanie, Lesley Rimmer, and Malcolm Wicks. 1987. Inside the Family. London: Family Policies Studies Centre.
• Holmes, Mary. 2007. What is Gender? Sociological Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Hyde, Janet Shibley, and John DeLamater. 2017. Understanding Human Sexuality. 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Institute of Economic Affairs. 1992. Equal Opportunities: A Feminist Fallacy. London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit.
• Jackson, Stevi, and Sue Scott, eds. 1996. Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Katz, Jonathan. [1987] 1995. The Invention of Heterosexuality. New York: Dutton.
• Kelly, Grace, Helen Crowley, and Carol Hamilton. 2009. “Rights, Sexuality and Relationships in Ireland: ‘It’d Be Nice to be Kind of Trusted.'” British Journal of Learning Disabilities 37(4):308–15. doi:10.1111/j.1468-3156.2009.00587.x.
• Kelly, R. 2006. “Gay Marriage. Why Now? Why at All.” Pp. 433–40 in Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies, edited by S. Seidman, N. Fischer, and C. Meeks. London: Routledge.
• Kessler, Suzanne J., and Wendy McKenna. 1978. Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Kimmel, Michael S. 2015. Sexualities: Identities, Behaviours, and Society. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kimmel, Michael, and Michael Messner. 2013. Men’s Lives. 9th ed. Boston: Pearson.
• Kinsman, Gary. 1996. The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities. 2nd ed. Montréal: Black Rose.
• Kinsman, Gary, and Patrizia Gentile. 2010. The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation. Vancouver, BC: UBC.
• Lorber, Judith. 1994. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Mandel, Hadas. 2009. “Configurations of Gender Inequality: The Consequences of Ideology and Public Policy.” British Journal of Sociology 60(4):693–719. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01271.x.
• May, Vanessa, ed. 2011. Sociology of Personal Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mead, Margaret. 1935. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. London: Routledge.
• Mkhize, Nonhlanhla, Jane Bennett, Vasu Reddy, and R. Moletsane. 2010. The Country We Want to Live In: Hate Crimes and Homophobia in the Lives of Black Lesbian South Africans. Cape Town: HSRC.
• Michael, Robert T. 1994. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey. Boston: Little, Brown.
• Moir, Anne, and David Jessel. 1989. Brain Sex: The Real Difference between Men and Women. London: Mandarin.
• Morrell, Robert, ed. 2001. Changing Men in Southern Africa. London: Zed Books.
• Parker, Richard, and Peter Aggleton, eds. 2007. Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
• Phillips, Angela. 1993. The Trouble with Boys: Parenting the Men of the Future. London: Pandora.
• Rathus, Spencer A., Jeffrey S. Nevid, and Lois Fichner-Rathus. 2013. Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
• Reid, Graeme, and Liz Walker, eds. 2005. Men Behaving Differently: South African Men since 1994. Cape Town: Double Storey.
• Richardson, Diane, and Victoria Robinson, eds. 1997. Introducing Women’s Studies: Feminist Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan.
• Richardson, Laurel. 1988. The Dynamics of Sex and Gender: A Sociological Perspective. New York: Harper & Row.
• Rosenblum, Karen Elaine, and Toni-Michelle Travis. 2016. The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Ruiters, Greg, ed. 2008. Gender Activism: Perspectives on the South African Transition, Institutional Culture and Everyday Life. Grahamstown, South Africa: Rhodes University Institute of Social and Economic Research/Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
• Sadker, David, and Myra Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness. New York: Scribner.
• Schneir, Miriam, ed. 1994. Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present. New York: Vintage Books.
• Sharpe, Sue. 1994. Just Like a Girl: How Girls Learn to be Women: From the Seventies to the Nineties. 2nd ed. London: Penguin.
• Simmons, Rachel. 2003. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. New York: Harcourt.
• Stein, Edward. 1992. Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. London: Routledge.
• Stombler, Mindy. 2014. Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader. 4th ed. New York: Norton.
• Tarrant, Shira. 2009. Men and Feminism. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.
• Tannen, Deborah. 1990. You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: William Morrow.
• Terman, Lewis, and Catherine Cox Miles. 1936. Sex and Personality: Studies in Masculinity and Femininity. New York and London: McGraw-Hill.
• Tolson, Andrew. 1977. The Limits of Masculinity: Male Identity and the Liberated Woman. New York: Harper and Row.
• von Krafft-Ebing, Richard. 1892. Psychopathia Sexualis. Translated by C. G. Chaddock. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
• Walby, Sylvia. 1990. Theorizing Patriarchy. Cambridge: Blackwell.
• Warner, Michael. 1999. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. New York: Free Press.
• Weeks, Jeffrey. 2000. Making Sexual History. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Wellings, Kaye. 1994. Sexual Behaviour in Britain: The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. New York: Penguin.
• Westhues, Kenneth. 1972. Society’s Shadow: Studies in the Sociology of Countercultures. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
• Wilkerson, William S. 2007. Ambiguity and Sexuality: A Theory of Sexual Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Williams, Christine L., and Arlene Stein. 2002. Sexuality and Gender: A Blackwell Reader in Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

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• Gender, Work and Organization
• Journal of Gender Studies
• Sex Roles
• Sexualities

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• abortion
• affective individualism
• affirmative action
• agency
• androcentrism
• androcracy
• androgyny
• androsexuality
• ascribed status
• asexuality
• behavior
• bigotry
• biological determinism
• birth rate
• bisexuality
• celibacy
• coming out
• contraception
• culture
• discrimination
• essentialism
• feminism
• gender
• gender binary
• gender gap
• gender identification
• gender identity
• gender role
• gender socialization
• group
• gynesexuality
• gynocentrism
• gynocracy
• heterosexism
• heterosexuality
• homophobia
• homosexuality
• incest
• incest taboo
• intersectionality
• matching hypothesis
• nature versus nurture
• norm
• objectification
• pansexuality
• polyamory
• power
• prejudice
• privilege
• pro-feminist
• queer theory
• relationship
• role
• role taking
• romantic love
• same gender loving (SGL)
• sex
• sex assigned at birth (SAAB)
• sex ratio
• sexism
• sexual discrimination
• sexual identity
• sexual minority
• sexuality
• singular they
• socialization
• stereotype
• stigma
• stratification (social stratification)

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