Author: Stephanie Garrett
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: society, gender
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 1987-05-07
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0422605700
ISBN-13: 9780422605700

Stephanie Garratt examines the recent work of feminists and other sociologists on gender, taking examples from a range of cultures.

Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gender, undoing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415969220
ISBN-13: 9780415969222

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler’s recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern - and fail to govern - gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender nor

Author: Sarah Hyde
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: gender, exhibiting
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1998-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0719042437
ISBN-13: 9780719042430

"Exhibiting gender" examines the ways in which women’s art and representations of women are collected and presented in museums and art galleries today. It presents readers with full colour reproductions of pairs of unidentified works, one by a man and one by a woman, and asks, ’can you tell which is the woman’s work?’ Readers are encouraged to examine their own expectations of, and preconceptions about, art by women, and the ways in which women are represented in art; the text will reveal both the answer and a further discussion of the issues raised. Developed from an i

Author: Harriet Bradley
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: concepts, key, gender
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-27
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 074562376X
ISBN-13: 9780745623764

Gender issues have become an increasingly prominent concern of academics and policy-makers. Although the death of feminism has often been pronounced, feminist ideas still permeate modern thinking. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are current gender relations changing? Are we facing a crisis of masculinity? Is social life being feminized? What would it be like to live in a society in which differences of gender were transcended? In this lively and accessible book Harriet Bradley provides an introduction to the concept of gender

Author: Stephen Smith
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: thinking, gender
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 1992-09-29
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0877229643
ISBN-13: 9780877229643

How can we accept the gender system in view of its ills? Yet, are we really at liberty to abolish gender differences, "when the gender system gives us benchmarks of personal identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of love?" With this double question, Steven G. Smith introduces his inquiry into the idea of gender and how it is implicated in love, respect, equality, and personal character. Gender Thinking is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?—that is, what sort of thing do we take

Author: Joyce Jacobsen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: gender, economics
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-03-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1405161825
ISBN-13: 9781405161824

The Economics of Gender, 3e offers an affordable, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary research being conducted on the differences between women’s and men’s economic opportunities, activities, and rewards.While focusing on contemporary US patterns, this text integrates an uniquely international comparative perspectiveDiscusses the pros and cons of various policies, including comparable worth and welfare programsRevisions to the 3rd edition include fully updated data, inclusion of new research, and new examples and studiesClear, readable, and provocative with helpf

Author: Dr Alexandra Howson
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: gender, embodying
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0761959955
ISBN-13: 9780761959953

Embodying Gender provides students and academics with a critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism. Previously, sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender but Alexandra Howson’s accessible new text draws these two literatures together, pointing to ways of integrating feminist perspectives on the body into sociological theory.Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of ’narratives of embodiment’ and presents a full analysis of the most important texts i