What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches by Mary Holmes (English) Paperback Book

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What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze 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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Is gender something done to us by society, or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities?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.The book begins by questioning simplistic biological conceptions of gender and goes on to evaluate different theoretical frameworks for explaining gender, as well as political approaches to gender issues. The cultural turn is also examined in relation to thinking about how gender is related to other forms of inequality such as class and 'race'. The book is up-to-date and broad in its scope, drawing on a range of disciplines, such as: sociology, psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, literary criticism, feminist political theory, feminist philosophy and feminist theory.

Author Biography

Mary Holmes is a sociologist at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is in the areas of sociology of emotion, intimacy and relationships and political sociology. She has taught sociology in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.Her recent books include Distance Relationships: Intimacy and Emotions Amongst Academics and their Partners In Dual-Locations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice (with Chris Beasley and Heather Brook, Routledge, 2012). 

Table of Contents

Introductionto the sociology of genderHow 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?

Details ISBN0761947132 Author Mary Holmes Short Title WHAT IS GENDER Language English ISBN-10 0761947132 ISBN-13 9780761947134 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 305.3 Year 2007 Subtitle Sociological Approaches Edition 1st Birth 1965 Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780761947134 UK Release Date 2007-06-18 NZ Release Date 2007-06-18 US Release Date 2007-06-18 Affiliation Professor of Criminal Policy and Mental Health, De Montfort University Position Chair of the Department of History Qualifications LCSW Pages 216 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Publication Date 2007-06-18 Alternative 9780761947127 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2007-06-17 We've got this

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