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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 78
Page 27
... identity and at age 14 chose to live as a man , undergoing extensive surgery to partially restore his penis and having a mastec- tomy . At age 25 , he married a women and adopted her children . Some have con- cluded that his case ...
... identity and at age 14 chose to live as a man , undergoing extensive surgery to partially restore his penis and having a mastec- tomy . At age 25 , he married a women and adopted her children . Some have con- cluded that his case ...
Page 99
... identities are likely to support that identity through a system of consistent social supports and meaning systems that may even include denial or reinterpretation of experiences of being attracted to mem- bers of the same sex . Current ...
... identities are likely to support that identity through a system of consistent social supports and meaning systems that may even include denial or reinterpretation of experiences of being attracted to mem- bers of the same sex . Current ...
Page 100
... identities is played out in power relations between dominant and subordinant groups , affects people's willingness to publicly claim a gay or lesbian identity . Although sexual identity is socially constructed , individuals experience ...
... identities is played out in power relations between dominant and subordinant groups , affects people's willingness to publicly claim a gay or lesbian identity . Although sexual identity is socially constructed , individuals experience ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender Sex and Culture | 19 |
The Social Construction | 51 |
Copyright | |
13 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
abortion African American African American women analysis argue Asian American attitudes basis behavior beliefs biological birth Black women child church contemporary context create culture defined deviance dominant economic edited example fact female feminist perspective feminist theory gays and lesbians Gender & Society gender identity gender relations gender roles girls groups Harriet Taylor Mill heterosexual Hispanic homophobia household housework human ideas ideology images inequality influence labor force Latino lesbian liberal feminism lives male marriage Marx men's mothers organization patriarchal patterns percent political postmodernist race racial radical feminism radical feminist rape relationships religion religious reproductive Sex Roles sexist sexual social change social construction social structure socialist socialist feminism sociological sociologists stereotypes studies tion traditional U.S. Census Bureau University Press violence White women woman women of color women's experiences women's roles workers York