The Social construction of gender

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The Social construction of gender

edited by Judith Lorber, Susan A. Farrell

Sage Publications, c1991

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  • : pbk

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"Published in cooperation with sociologists for Women in Society"

"A collection of readings ... primarily selected from the first four years of Gender & society"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references

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Essentialist notions of gender difference are being challenged increasingly by research on the social construction of gender. Lorber and Farrell present a key collection of current research which illustrates how the constructivist approach has been applied to a variety of issues, including those centred on the family, the workplace, social class, ethnic identity and politics. Much of the recent work in this area has appeared in the journal Gender and Society which is the genesis of most of the papers in this volume.

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PART ONE: PRINCIPLES OF GENDER CONSTRUCTION Doing Gender - Candace West and Don H Zimmerman Social Location and Gender-Role Attitudes - Karen Dugger A Comparison of Black and White Women Masculinities and Athletic Careers - Michael Messner PART TWO: GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN FAMILY LIFE `Helped Put in a Quilt' - Karen V Hansen Men's Work and Male Intimacy in Nineteenth Century New England Bargaining with Patriarchy - Deniz Kandiyoti Family, Feminism, and Race in America - Maxine Baca Zinn PART THREE: GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE WORK PLACE Bringing the Men Back in - Barbara F Reskin Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies - Joan Acker A Theory of Gendered Organizations Labor-Market Gendered Inequality in Minority Groups - Elizabeth M Almquist Feminization of Poverty and Comparable Worth - Johanna Brenner Radical Versus Liberal Approaches PART FOUR: FEMINIST RESEARCH STRATEGIES When Gender is Not Enough - Catherine Kohler Riessman Women Interviewing Women Race and Class Bias in Qualitative Research on Women - Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higgenbotham and Maryanne Leung PART FIVE: RACIAL ETHNIC IDENTITY AND FEMINIST POLITICS The Development of Feminist Consciousness Among Asian American Women - Esther Ngan-Ling Chow The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980 - Alma M Garcia New Bedford Massachusetts - Lynn S Chaucer March 6 - March 22, 1984 The `Before and After' of a Group Rape PART SIX: DECONSTRUCTING GENDER Theories of Gender Equality - Judith Buber Agassi Lessons from the Israeli Kibbutz `It's Our Church, Too!' Women's Position in the Catholic Church Today - Susan A Farrell Dismantling Noah's Ark - Judith Lorber

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