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Paradoxes of gender / Judith Lorber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 424 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585357773
  • 9780585357775
  • 9780300153446
  • 0300153449
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paradoxes of gender.DDC classification:
  • 305.3 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1075 .L667 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 02.02
  • 71.31
  • 71.31.
  • 02.02.
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Producing gender. "Night to his day": the social construction of gender ; Believing is seeing: biology as ideology ; How many opposites? Gendered sexuality ; Men as women and women as men: disrupting gender ; Waiting for the goddess: cultural images of gender. -- pt. 2. Gender in practice. Out of Eden: the social evolution of gender ; Rocking the cradle: gender and domestic labor ; Daily bread: gender and domestic labor ; Separate and not equal: the gendered division of paid work. -- pt. 3. The politics of gender. Guarding the gates: the micropolitics of gender ; The visible hand: gender and the state ; Dismantling Noah's ark: gender and equality.
Summary: Annotation In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial, ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-411) and index.

Print version record.

Annotation In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial, ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

pt. 1. Producing gender. "Night to his day": the social construction of gender ; Believing is seeing: biology as ideology ; How many opposites? Gendered sexuality ; Men as women and women as men: disrupting gender ; Waiting for the goddess: cultural images of gender. -- pt. 2. Gender in practice. Out of Eden: the social evolution of gender ; Rocking the cradle: gender and domestic labor ; Daily bread: gender and domestic labor ; Separate and not equal: the gendered division of paid work. -- pt. 3. The politics of gender. Guarding the gates: the micropolitics of gender ; The visible hand: gender and the state ; Dismantling Noah's ark: gender and equality.

English.

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