Written by Angela Barian, Jessica Brown (Houston Community College), and Todd Schoepflin (Niagara University) as part of A Sociology Experiment. To read this chapter, add it to your cart, complete the checkout process, return to this page, and select “Read Now” to open the Bookshelf reader.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to: analyze the concepts of gender and sexuality from a sociological perspective; explain how gender and sexuality intersect with other social relations; and discuss existing inequalities related to gender and sexuality.

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