The Social Construction of Gender
Author : Judith Lorber
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Feminism
ISBN :
Representations
Author : Rhoda Unger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351842013
Book Description
Developed from an edited series of journal articles into a larger collection with a clear identity and emphasis all its own-one need only browse through the Table of Contents. "The divided lives of women in literature ," "Case studies of agency and communion in women's lives," "A sense of humor," "Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women," "Coping with rape," "Earliest memories: Sex differences and the meaning of experience," "Women's explanations for job changes," "Androgyny and the life cycle: The Bacchae of Euripides" -these are but a few of the topics represented in this diverse and interesting collection. What, then, binds these essays together? First and foremost, this is a book of stories about women, about the conflicts, choices, and opportunities that are present in the lives of women, both real and imagined.
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Author : Judith Lorber
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0759102384
Book Description
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. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.
The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
Author : Tracy E. Ore
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
This anthology examines the social construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality and the institutional bases for these relations. While other texts discuss various forms of stratification and the impact of these on members of marginalized groups, Ore provides a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed and perpetuated and how forms of stratification are interconnected. The anthology supplies sufficient pedagogical tools to aid the student in understanding how the material relates to her/his own life and how her/his own attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.
The Inequality Reader
Author : David Grusky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429974094
Book Description
Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.
The Future of Gender
Author : Jude Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521697255
Book Description
"Gender" is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in familial structures and demography? How should gender be conceived in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, and what is gender's function in the design and pursuit of political objectives? In this volume a collection of international experts from the fields of political philosophy, political theory, sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender both as a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning the transformation of society. Each contributor considers how gender might be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of (often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness for the future.
The Social Construction of Reality
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468
Book Description
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
The Social Construction of Sexuality
Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Contemporary Societies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393937800
Book Description
An affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.
Gender Blending
Author : Aaron H. Devor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1989-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253116130
Book Description
"A major contribution to the understanding of gender." -- Anne Bolin "Its readable style achieves a unique balance of the personal with scientific rigor." -- Contemporary Sociology "Holly Devor's Gender Blending is a pathfinding study that creates a new frontier in sex and gender research." -- Journal of the History of Sexuality "... a fascinating study... " -- Choice Fifteen women who have to varying degrees rejected traditional femininity, but not their femaleness, discuss their lives with Devor. These women, sometimes mistaken for men, choose to minimize their female vulnerability in a patriarchal world by minimizing their femininity.
Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures
Author : Professor Silvia Gherardi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446228609
Book Description
The symbolic order of gender in organizations - how gender relations are culturally and discursively produced and reproduced, and how they might be done' differently, are explored in this book. Silvia Gherardi focuses on the relationship between gender, power and culture in organizations and on the need to come to grips with the pervasive, elusive and ambiguous nature of gender in work settings. She introduces two key metaphors. The first is of the sexual contract, which centres on the sexuality of organizations and static' gender difference. The second, of the alchemic wedding, highlights a plurality of cultural models of femaleness and of women/work relationships, and processes of dynamic difference, transformation and transcendence. Gherardi continues her examination of the construction of gender relations in the workplace through a series of rich and illuminating stories which also draw on various symbolic archetypes as powerful forms of cultural expression. The final section of the book looks at possibilities for change, developing in particular a concept of different forms of gender citizenship of organizations.
