The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality

By Sandra Lipsitz Bem and Professor Sandra Lipsitz Bem

Book Overview

In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056761
• ISBN13: 9780300056761
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

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I focused on gender and sexuality in college and I have to say that of all the books I own on this subject, this is the book I'm most likely to lend someone. "The Lenses of Gender" is an excellent work for academics and newcomers to the field alike. It is alos a good read for those of us who are deeply mired in gender studies already. Sandra Lipsitz Bem does a great job of stepping back to provide a nice overview, leaving us some useful concepts and tools along the way. I must also thank her for not writing bisexuality out of the picture...one of the many topics still controversial among otherwise open-minded people, the author manages to be inclusive and positive. She doesn't resort to the kind of blustery didactic arguments that mar the writing of so many cultural critics. This is something that I can't praise highly enough. Perhaps that's the most groundbreaking aspect of this book. Take a look at it. "The Lenses of Gender" is good for a wide audience and offers a lot to think about.

Take the glasses off quick!

This is a great book that details the dynamics that may propagate gender inequality. The three main "lenses" include gender polarization, androcentrism, and biological essentialism. Don't be scared off, it is well written and concisely links the concepts to provide a good look at how gender is constructed.