What Is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

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.

• | By (Author): Mary Holmes
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• | Publication Date: Jun 18, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0761947132
• | ISBN-13: 9780761947134