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What Is Gender? Sociological Approaches

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ISBN-10: 0761947132

ISBN-13: 9780761947134

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mary Holmes

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What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.
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Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 7/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Introduction to the sociology of gender
How different are women and men?
Is gender something that we do?
How can gender best be explained?
Is gender about bodies?
What are the politics of gender?
How is gender intertwined with class?
How is gender intertwined with 'race'?
Conclusion: So what is gender?