What is Gender? by Mary Holmes - 9780761947134

SAGE Publications Inc

What is Gender?Sociological Approaches\nAuthor(s): Mary Holmes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States\nImprint: SAGE Publications Inc\nISBN-13: 9780761947134, 978-0761947134\nSynopsis\nIs gender something done to us by society, or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities?\nWhat is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse 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.\n\nThe book begins by questioning simplistic biological conceptions of gender and goes on to evaluate different theoretical frameworks for explaining gender, as well as political approaches to gender issues. The cultural turn is also examined in relation to thinking abou.