Posts Tagged Gender
Sex and Gender: An Introduction
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This is a comprehensive introduction to sex and gender theories, research, and issues, focusing on social psychological and feminist perspectives. The book examines the similarities and differences between women and men, discusses where that knowledge comes from, and explains how that knowledge may itself be shaped and limited by cultural perceptions. This new edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date research citations for all chapters and more current ex… More >>
Sex and Gender: An Introduction
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In The Meaning of Difference, Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis examine the social construction of difference in American life—particularly in regard to race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. This text-reader contains four framework essays that examine the construction of difference, the experience of difference, the social meaning of difference, and social actions that might bridge differences. Each essay is f… More >>
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
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This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur’s story–the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm–but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activi… More >>
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
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