Gender and sexuality : sociological approaches /
By: Rahman, Momin.
Contributor(s): Jackson, Stevi
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Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2010Description: ix, 246 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745633763 (hbk.); 9780745633763:; 0745633765 (hbk.); 0745633773 (pbk.); 9780745633770 (pbk.).Subject(s): Gender identity -- Social aspects | SexDDC classification: 305.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-232) and index.
The trouble with 'nature' -- Sociological challenges to essentialism -- Gender, sexuality and structural inequality -- The idea of patriarchy -- Rethinking gendered and sexual inequalities -- Gender and sexuality as cultural constructs -- Critical perspectives on knowledge -- The complexity of contemporary culture -- The sociolization paradigm and its critics -- Becoming gendered and sexual -- Sexual selves in global late modernity -- Power, politics, identities and social change.
This introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society.