| Description |
ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Key concepts
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Key concepts (Polity Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-217) and index. |
| Contents |
In and out of the frame : a personal history of gender -- What's in a name? Meanings and usages of gender -- Gendering and class : growing up girl, growing up boy -- Gender and modernity -- 'What's it all about?' Being a man in the twenty-first century -- Gender and postmodernity -- 'Sisters under their skins?' Identities in a global age -- Gendered worlds : production -- Having it all : family and employment in women's lives -- Gendered worlds : reproduction -- Men and me : arrangements between the sexes -- Gendered worlds : consumption -- It doesn't have to be this way : gendered Utopias -- Conclusion : what the future holds : gender, theory and politics. |
| Summary |
This book provides an introduction to the concept of gender and the different theoretical approaches which have developed within gender studies. It has been designed as a student introduction and is accessible to anybody interested in contemporary relations between women and men. |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Social aspects.
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Gender identity -- Social aspects. |
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Gender identity. |
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Gender identity -- Political aspects.
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Gender identity -- Political aspects. |
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Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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Sex differences.
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Sex differences. |
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Gender identity. |
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Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
9780745623771 paperback |
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0745623778 paperback |
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9780745623764 hardback |
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074562376X cased |
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