Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition

By Barbara J. Risman

Book Overview

Just as every society has an economic and political structure, so too every society has a gender structure. Barbara Risman's original research on single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300072155
• ISBN13: 9780300072150
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and provacative

I consider myself to be a reasonably enlightened man regarding gender and relationship issues and this book still gave me new insights. Particularly about how the whole idea of gender and gender roles is in great flux, vertigo, if you will.