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Author Lorber, Judith.

Title Paradoxes of gender / Judith Lorber.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.3 L865P    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.3 LORBER    Check Shelf
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.
Gender identity.
Social institutions.
Feminist theory.
Indexed Term Sex roles
ISBN 0300058071 alkaline paper
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