This engaging collection of readings presents a wide variety of ideas about how gender structures our feelings and our expectations about ourselves and others, how gender influences the choices we make, and what opportunities are available to us. Organized around eleven topics and containing 39 readings, the selections represent a variety of sources, scholarly articles, a short story, journalistic accounts, and personal narratives. They are representative of many different theoretical perspectives as well. The accompanying workbook and data disk give...
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This engaging collection of readings presents a wide variety of ideas about how gender structures our feelings and our expectations about ourselves and others, how gender influences the choices we make, and what opportunities are available to us. Organized around eleven topics and containing 39 readings, the selections represent a variety of sources, scholarly articles, a short story, journalistic accounts, and personal narratives. They are representative of many different theoretical perspectives as well. The accompanying workbook and data disk give readers the opportunity to test their assumptions about gender and racial differences. For anyone interested in the sociology of gender.
Booknews Contains 39 readings addressing how gender structures people's lives, organized into eleven sections: gender socialization and parenting; gender in relation to work, sexuality, education, the maths and sciences, religion, health and illness, reproductive technology, politics, the law, and violence. Includes works by Nancy Chodorow, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Peggy Orenstein, Betty Friedan, and others. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
