Holmes Mary - What Is Gender? Sociological Approaches - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Is gender something done to us by society or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities? What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn. The book begins by questioning simplistic biological conceptions of gender and goes on to evaluate different theoretical frameworks for explaining gender as well as political approaches to gender issues. The cultural turn is also examined in relation to thinking about how gender is related to other forms of inequality such as class and race . The book is up - to - date and broad in its scope drawing on a range of disciplines such as: sociology psychoanalysis masculinity studies literary criticism feminist political theory feminist philosophy and feminist theory.
Title: What Is Gender? Sociological Approaches
Author(s): Holmes Mary
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc
Barcode: 9780761947134
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2007
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups