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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Page 67
... means of material production at its disposal , has control at the same time over the means of mental production , so that thereby , generally speak- ing , the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it ...
... means of material production at its disposal , has control at the same time over the means of mental production , so that thereby , generally speak- ing , the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it ...
Page 353
... means of production . Under cap- italism , two new major classes emerge : capitalists , who own the means of produc- tion , and the proletariat ( or working class ) , who sell their labor to capitalist own- ers in exchange for wages ...
... means of production . Under cap- italism , two new major classes emerge : capitalists , who own the means of produc- tion , and the proletariat ( or working class ) , who sell their labor to capitalist own- ers in exchange for wages ...
Page 354
... means of production by reorganizing the means of production ( and , feminists would add , reproduction ) ; the accumulation of profit in the hands of a few must be eliminated . Marxists see that social changes that do not strike at the ...
... means of production by reorganizing the means of production ( and , feminists would add , reproduction ) ; the accumulation of profit in the hands of a few must be eliminated . Marxists see that social changes that do not strike at the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender Sex and Culture | 19 |
The Social Construction | 51 |
Copyright | |
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