Description |
xi, 424 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-411) and index. |
Contents |
Pt.1. Producing gender. "Night to his day": the social construction of gender ; Believing is seeing: biology as ideology ; How many opposites? Gendered sexuality ; Men as women and women as men: disrupting gender ; Waiting for the goddess: cultural images of gender. -- Pt.2. Gender in practice. Out of Eden: the social evolution of gender ; Rocking the cradle: gender and domestic labor ; Daily bread: gender and domestic labor ; Separate and not equal: the gendered division of paid work. -- Pt.3. The politics of gender. Guarding the gates: the micropolitics of gender ; The visible hand: gender and the state ; Dismantling Noah's ark: gender and equality. |
Subject |
Sex role.
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Gender identity.
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Social institutions.
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Feminist theory.
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Indexed Term |
Sex roles |
ISBN |
0300058071 alkaline paper |
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