Sociology Now: The Essentials Softcover - 2010 - 2nd Edition

Michael S. Kimmel is a Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He is the author of "Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men" (HarperCollins, 2008) which was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on over one hundred radio and newspaper and blog reviews. His other books include "Changing Men" (1987), "Men's Lives"(8th edition, 2009) "Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990" (1992), "The Politics of Manhood" (1996), " Manhood: A Cultural History" (1996, 10th anniversary second edition, 2006), and "The Gendered Society" (3rd edition, 2008). He co-edited "The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities" (2004) and "Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities" (2004). He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field's premier scholarly journal, a book series on Gender and Sexuality at New York University Press, and edited the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities. He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-author, Amy Aronson, and their 10 year old son, Zachary. Amy Aronson is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of "Taking Liberties: Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readers" and an editor of the international quarterly, "Media History." She has co-edited several books, including a centennial edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Women and Economics" and the two-volume "Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities," which was honored by the New York Public Library with a Best of Reference Award in 2004. A former editor at "Working Woman" and "Ms.," her work has also appeared in publications including "Business Week," "Global Journalist" and the Sunday supplement of "The Boston Globe."