Gender

Language: English
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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.
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • In and Out of the Frame: a Personal History of Gender
  • Chapter One. Whats in a Name?
  • Gendering and Class: Growing up Girl, Growing up Boy
  • Chapter Two . Gender and Modernity
  • Being a Man in the Twenty first Century
  • Chapter Three. Gender and Postmodernity
  • Sisters Under the Skin? Identities in a Global Age
  • Chapter Four. Gendered Worlds : Production
  • Having it All: Family and Employmen in Womens Lives
  • Chapter Five. Gendered Worlds: Reproduction
  • Men and Me: Arrangements Between the Sexes
  • Chapter Six. Gendered Worlds: Consumption
  • It Doesnt Have to Be This Way: Gendered Utopias
  • Conclusion What the Future holds: Gender, Theory and Politics
    • Students of gender studies, sociology and related disciplines