Gender Studies at Barnes and Noble
Hi, I just wanted to comment on a recent book search I was doing on BarnesandNoble.com. I was searching the bestsellers of the "Gender Studies" section and the ENTIRE FIRST PAGE was a list of books either by men or about men and boys, i.e. how to understand boys and men's souls.... Sad for me, a women's studies/sociology major, that I thought that the first thing that would pop up would be books along the lines of Jessica and Courtney's. I guess that just exemplifies how much we live in a world of "man-as-norm".
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Gender studies, sorted by best seller shows 4 out of 10 books on the first page written by men. The other 6 (5, including one listed twice) are written by women and several of them are classics like Beauty Myth and Judith Butler. Contrariwise, if you look under Women's Studies, sorted by Best sellers, they're all written by women except for one, a biography of Hillary Clinton. And when you look under Feminism, sorted by Best sellers, all women. Perhaps you're looking at a different page than I am?
Isn't that the point of the "gender studies", though? To look at gender instead of just as it relates to women, but women along with men and gay and lesbian, etc.?