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 heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children, reported in this intriguing book, weaves together qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, interviews, and observation. Risman shows how gender as a social structure affects individuals, organizes expectations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300080832
• ISBN13: 9780300080834
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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.