Paradoxes of Gender
by Judith LorberEdition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1995-09-27
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial, ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Producing Gender | |
| "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender | p. 13 |
| Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology | p. 37 |
| How Many Opposites? Gendered Sexuality | p. 55 |
| Men as Women and Women as Men: Disrupting Gender | p. 80 |
| Waiting for the Goddess: Cultural Images of Gender | p. 97 |
| Gender in Practice | |
| Out of Eden: The Social Evolution of Gender | p. 123 |
| Rocking the Cradle: Gendered Parenting | p. 144 |
| Daily Bread: Gender and Domestic Labor | p. 172 |
| Separate and Not Equal: The Gendered Division of Paid Work | p. 194 |
| The Politics of Gender | |
| Guarding the Gates: The Micropolitics of Gender | p. 225 |
| The Visible Hand: Gender and the State | p. 253 |
| Dismantling Noah's Ark: Gender and Equality | p. 282 |
| Notes | p. 303 |
| Bibliography | p. 335 |
| Index | p. 413 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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