Thinking about Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and GenderAllyn and Bacon, 2000 - 434 páginas * 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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... write ( indeed , the time to think ! ) a serious challenge . I would find my administrative work far less satisfying ... writing projects means I spend many weekends and early morning hours alone in my study . I could not have ...
... write ( indeed , the time to think ! ) a serious challenge . I would find my administrative work far less satisfying ... writing projects means I spend many weekends and early morning hours alone in my study . I could not have ...
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... write two- thirds of the front page stories in newspapers and provide 85 percent of television reporting . Women of ... writes : [ Television ] is used by practically all the people and is used practically all the time . It collects the ...
... write two- thirds of the front page stories in newspapers and provide 85 percent of television reporting . Women of ... writes : [ Television ] is used by practically all the people and is used practically all the time . It collects the ...
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... writing as a student , first at the University of Bonn ( 1835-1836 ) and then at the University of Berlin ( 1836-1841 ) ... write , working occasionally as a journalist , but he was forced to move from Germany to Paris and later to London ...
... writing as a student , first at the University of Bonn ( 1835-1836 ) and then at the University of Berlin ( 1836-1841 ) ... write , working occasionally as a journalist , but he was forced to move from Germany to Paris and later to London ...
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Gender Sex and Culture | 19 |
The Social Construction | 51 |
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