Author: Judith Lorber
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: gender, lens, illness, construction, social
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0759102384
ISBN-13: 9780759102385

"Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook.They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition ’a rich and imaginative work.’ In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist healt

Author: Judith Lorber
Publisher:
Keywords: paradoxien, gender
Number of Pages: 493
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3810037435
ISBN-13: 9783810037435

Author: Professor Judith Lorber
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: gender, paradoxes
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 1995-09-27
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0300064977
ISBN-13: 9780300064971

This feminist work draws from a wide range of critical, social and historical research to suggest that today’s gender system is a constructed institution - designed to produce a subordinate class (women) to be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers and nurturers.

Authors:Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: perspectives, feminist, bodies, gendered
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-07-18
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 019533079X
ISBN-13: 9780195330793

For centuries the biological sciences have dissected, measured, and probed the human body as a product of nature. But from a feminist perspective, the human body is a social production. Human bodies are shaped and controlled by the norms and expectations of gendered social orders, and intersected by racial, class, religious, and age norms and expectations. The result is a gendered body produced for a gendered social world. In this concise text with readings, designed for undergraduate students, Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore present feminist contributions to social and cultural studies of t

Authors:Myra Marx Ferree, Dr. Judith Lorber, Dr. Beth Hess,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: gender, lens, revisioning
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 1998-08-02
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0761906177
ISBN-13: 9780761906179

This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume’s predecessor, (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the past decade with its emphasis on all levels of social structure from the most macro to the most individual. "Revisioning Gen

Authors:Robert L. Lorber, Ph.D. Gregory M. Anderson,  
Publisher: Results In Learning, Inc.
Keywords: culture, free, incident, building, safety
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2006-03-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0977830802
ISBN-13: 9780977830800

SAFETY 24/7 Building an Incident Free Safety Culture By Gregory M. Anderson & Robert L. Lorber, Ph.D. Book Summary

Authors:Judith Hall, Judith Allanson, Karen Gripp, Anne Slavo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: handbook, oxford, physical, measurements
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2006-11-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195301498
ISBN-13: 9780195301496

Updated and revised, this is a comprehensive sourcebook of reference data for health professionals involved in evaluating people with abnormal features or syndromes. It includes many graphs, tables, and charts needed by clinicians to define normal patterns of growth and provides standards of comparison for possible congenital abnormalities. Numerous "how-to" illustrations give the step-by-step guidance needed to ensure that standardized measurements are properly taken for accurate recordkeeping. Designed for ease of use, the pocket-sized book has a durable plastic cover, making it ideal for us