What Is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

by Mary Holmes

Book Overview

What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women′s and men′s lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761947132
• ISBN13: 9780761947134
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.5"