Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life

A collection of more than two dozen essays by diverse authors, this collection focuses on the role of gender and how it affects ordinary people. A cynic might say that some of the essays are merely academics stating the obvious, only in oddly tortured and clunking prose. Yet the themes explored in the collection, such as pieces dealing with people working in jobs that are not traditional for their genders, are deserving of the serious treatment they are given.