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No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Now that the project is finished and going to press I am glad that I changed my earlier judgments. Gender is an often misunderstood subject area, even within the discipline and to those who teach and write about it.
To that the answer was obvious, at least to me. It begins when we are born with the color blanket we are wrapped in, all the way to the grave, to the clothes we are buried in. We are bombarded with advertisements specifically targeted at our gender, either male, female, or somewhere in between.
We are judged by our gender, which is often synonymous with our sex, although in many of the presentations through the years it is becoming evident that more and more people understand the difference. Our clothing, food, entertainment, and reading material are all tied to gender, in one form or another.
