Gender and Everyday Life

Zusatztext 'Holmes provides an excellent overview of understanding of gender through a sociological lens and encourages readers to recognize the importance of reflecting and critically thinking about the impact gender has on their lives - recommended.' – Choice, August 2009 Informationen zum Autor Mary Holmes is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. Currently she is co-writing a book called Adventures in Heterosexuality (with Chris Beasley and Heather Brook) and is the author of What is Gender? She is coeditor of Critical Concepts: The Sociology of the Body (also published by Routledge). Klappentext Offers an introduction to gender and provides an exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. This book explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms! but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Zusammenfassung Women and men are more alike than we might think. In this accessible and enthusiastic introduction Mary Holmes explains how sociological approaches to gender can help us understand how and why everyday life is often so different for women and men, despite their similarities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Gender and Everyday Life 1. Sexed Bodies? 2. Learning and Doing Gender in Everyday Life 3. Gendered Relationships in Everyday Life 4. Resisting Gender in Everyday Life 5. The Future of Gender Conclusion: Gender, Everyday Life and Degendering

Product details

• Authors: Mary Holmes, Mary (University of Edinburgh Holmes, Holmes Mary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780415423489
• ISBN: 978-0-415-42348-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 189 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The New Sociology; The New Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men