Gender and sexuality
Subtitle: sociological approaches
By: Momin Rahman, Stevi Jackson
Contributors: Jackson, Stevi
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780745633763; 9780745633770
Subjects: Social aspects; Gender identity; Sex
Other titles: Gender & sexuality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: pt. 1. The Development of Sociological Thought on Gender and Sexuality. 1. The Trouble with 'Nature'; 2. Sociological Challenges to Essentialism; title: pt. 2. Inequalities and Social Structure. 3. Gender, Sexuality and Structural Inequality ; 4. The Idea of Patriarchy ; 5. Rethinking Gendered and Sexual Inequalities; title: pt. 3. Culture, Ideology and Discourse. 6. Gender and Sexuality as Cultural Constructs ; 7. Critical Perspectives on Knowledge ; 8. The Complexity of Contemporary Culture; title: pt. 4. Self, Identity and Agency. 9. The Socialization Paradigm and its Critics ; 10. Becoming Gendered and Sexual ; 11. Sexual Selves in Global Late Modernity; title: pt. 5. Conclusion. 12. Power, Politics, Identities and Social Change.