Gender
An Ethnomethodological ApproachSuzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Kessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but rather a social construct that varies across cultures. Valuable for its insights into gender, its extensive treatment of transsexualism, and its ethnomethodological approach, Gender reviews and critiques data from biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.