What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

✍ Scribed by Mary Holmes

Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze 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.

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Гендерная социология;

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