Gender Actualized Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities

This edited collection of 34 cases provides a common frame for dialoguing about gender/ed issues. Centered in narrative theory, it extends the realm of personal experience by introducing situations in context that involve real decisions about important issues that, like life, do not lend themselves to superficial or simple analysis.Contains both full-length cases as well as shorter "mini-cases"Left without complete resolution at a decision point to enable classroom discussionAuthored by gender scholars using actual data from current research and examples from the media to give "voice" to gender/ed realities