What is gender?
sociological approaches
- ISBN: 9780761947134
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 25 cm
- Nº Pág.: 209
- Idiomas: Inglés
"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.