"Women, Men, and Society"

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This paper analyzes "Women, Men, and Society" by Claire M. Renzetti and Daniel J. Curran and provides a personal response to the themes in the book. It discusses how it explores the different ways individuals experience gender in contemporary society, and the author's opinions as a female and feminist are related to the issues at hand.

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"Although the book can be characterized as feminist in nature, the do not view the construction of gender as simply as a problem for women, but also as a problem for individuals gendered as male. The book's equitable treatment of the two genders suggests that the narrow construction of sexual norms is a problem in society today for males as well as females. The deconstruction of gender is a "problem" for all, not simply a project of liberation for women. To understand what it means to be a woman, and how this is problematic for our culture, one must also understand what our culture constructs as masculine and how this limits men."

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