Gender
Subtitle: A Sociological Reader (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780415201803
First sentence: THE BASIC ARGUMENT IS whether 'sex' (our 'maleness' or 'femaleness', the biological basis of sex differentiation) causes 'gender' (culturally ascribed notions about 'femininity' and 'masculinity'), or whether and to what extent 'gender' is a social construction.