"What makes Riki Wilchins'' book important is the clear concise exposition of the ideas of gender norms and the complex intersections of genders and identities. What makes it necessary is how Wilchins then applies these concepts to those crucial policy arenas where we see them playing out in real time." --Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University "This is such a necessary book. Riki Wilchins provides deep insights on the impact of gender and identity biases and how our society views and confronts gender norms. It is hard to see how one can work effectively on systemic change and social justice without this knowledge or lens." --Gina D. Dalma, Vice President of Government Relations, Silicon Valley Community Foundation "This book is interrogative, enlightening, and totally reorients both our views and understanding of gender norms. If practitioners, parents, and society would apply the lens that Wilchins artfully elevates, it would be transformative for families, communities, and our culture at large.

" --Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior Partner, Frontline Solutions "Gender and intersectionality and all the terms therein have too often stayed in the academic world. As important as that academic space has been for building a new language to take on patriarchy and sexism, we need that conversation to be held everywhere. By teachers, parents, coaches, the media, policymakers, and by the funders who decide which programs get supported and which don''t. Wilchins has given us the personal as political, the intersectional gender lens as understandable, the roadmap for what to do as clear as it is undeniable. Read it, live it. Act on it." --Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo-US "We are amid a moment of widespread recognition of the centrality of gender identity as a social construct that shapes the contours of opportunity in America. Wilchins interrogates gender hierarchy and its accompanying power structure to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing.

Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science. This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundation olicymakers, and by the funders who decide which programs get supported and which don''t. Wilchins has given us the personal as political, the intersectional gender lens as understandable, the roadmap for what to do as clear as it is undeniable. Read it, live it. Act on it." --Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo-US "We are amid a moment of widespread recognition of the centrality of gender identity as a social construct that shapes the contours of opportunity in America.

Wilchins interrogates gender hierarchy and its accompanying power structure to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing. Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science. This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationthe need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationansformative for families, communities, and our culture at large." --Marcus Littles, Founder and Senior Partner, Frontline Solutions "Gender and intersectionality and all the terms therein have too often stayed in the academic world.

As important as that academic space has been for building a new language to take on patriarchy and sexism, we need that conversation to be held everywhere. By teachers, parents, coaches, the media, policymakers, and by the funders who decide which programs get supported and which don''t. Wilchins has given us the personal as political, the intersectional gender lens as understandable, the roadmap for what to do as clear as it is undeniable. Read it, live it. Act on it." --Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo-US "We are amid a moment of widespread recognition of the centrality of gender identity as a social construct that shapes the contours of opportunity in America. Wilchins interrogates gender hierarchy and its accompanying power structure to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing. Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science.

This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationolicymakers, and by the funders who decide which programs get supported and which don''t. Wilchins has given us the personal as political, the intersectional gender lens as understandable, the roadmap for what to do as clear as it is undeniable. Read it, live it. Act on it." --Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo-US "We are amid a moment of widespread recognition of the centrality of gender identity as a social construct that shapes the contours of opportunity in America. Wilchins interrogates gender hierarchy and its accompanying power structure to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing.

Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science. This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationthe need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationclear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing. Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science. This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice.

Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as we know it." --Loren Harris, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundationolicymakers, and by the funders who decide which programs get supported and which don''t. Wilchins has given us the personal as political, the intersectional gender lens as understandable, the roadmap for what to do as clear as it is undeniable. Read it, live it. Act on it." --Gary Barker, President and CEO, Promundo-US "We are amid a moment of widespread recognition of the centrality of gender identity as a social construct that shapes the contours of opportunity in America. Wilchins interrogates gender hierarchy and its accompanying power structure to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the function of gender norms as drivers of social interaction, economic opportunity and health and wellbeing. Wilchins is calling upon us to evolve and rebuke gender tropes based on socially constructed myth rather than science.

This incisive primer on the expanding complexity of gender identity makes plain the many confounding intersections with race, class and opportunity, and in so doing, reminds us of the need for deep empathy and a widened aperture for viewing social justice. Wilchins challenges us to take seriously the quest of creating lasting social change through an unyielding commitment to deconstructing gender as w.