When sex became gender
By: Shira Tarrant.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780415953467; 9780415953474
Subjects: Feminist theory -- History.; Feminism -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Tending the embers; title: Confronting the bonds of ideology : feminist theory in the Cold War years; title: The setting : postwar politics in Britain, France, and the United States; title: On the path to gender : Margaret Mead, socialization, and sex role ideology; title: Mirra Komarovsky : functional analysis and the poignant signs of discontent; title: Viola Klein : sociology of knowledge and the so-called feminine character; title: Simone de Beauvoir and the second sex; title: No woman is an island : Ruth Herschberger and postwar pollination; title: When sex became gender.