Thinking about Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and GenderAllyn and Bacon, 2000 - 434 pages * Contains a new section on language, gender, and popular culture (Ch. 3). * Includes new material on sexuality, including bisexuality and transgendered identities (Ch. 4). * Updates the discussion of sex, gender, and sexuality as central concepts (Ch. 2). * Provides a clearer discussion of the relationship between biology and culture (Ch. 2). * Incorporates new information on welfare reform, teen pregnancy, and poverty among women (Ch. 5). * Emphasizes more fully the influence of postmodernism and the social construction of gender (Ch. 13). * Features new suggested readings, but retains the classics. * Integrates updated research throughout, including new graphics. * Maintains a strong and integrated focus on race, class, and gender throughout. * Includes the most current scholarship on gender. * Retains its clear and lively writing style, written specifically for an undergraduate audience. * Provides Discussion Questions/Projects for Thought at the end of each chapter. |
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... White Americans . In all age groups , hypertension among Black women exceeds that of both White and Hispanic women ; for all women , the rates of hypertension increase as they age ( National Center for Health Statistics , 1998 ; see ...
... White Americans . In all age groups , hypertension among Black women exceeds that of both White and Hispanic women ; for all women , the rates of hypertension increase as they age ( National Center for Health Statistics , 1998 ; see ...
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... White racial prejudice . Like the nineteenth - century U.S. feminists who had developed their feminist politics through participation in the abolitionist movement , White women working in the civil rights movement soon saw their own ...
... White racial prejudice . Like the nineteenth - century U.S. feminists who had developed their feminist politics through participation in the abolitionist movement , White women working in the civil rights movement soon saw their own ...
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... White and Black women ended up working in movements that were even more male dominated and less open to an examination of gender inequality . For Black women , the Black power movement explicitly appealed to the power of Black men and ...
... White and Black women ended up working in movements that were even more male dominated and less open to an examination of gender inequality . For Black women , the Black power movement explicitly appealed to the power of Black men and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender Sex and Culture | 19 |
The Social Construction | 51 |
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