Paradoxes of gender /

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Author / Creator:Lorber, Judith
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.
Description:xi, 424 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1591056
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ISBN:0300058071
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Producing Gender. 1. "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender. 2. Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology. 3. How Many Opposites? Gendered Sexuality. 4. Men as Women and Women as Men: Disrupting Gender. 5. Waiting for the Goddess: Cultural Images of Gender
  • Pt. II. Gender in Practice. 6. Out of Eden: The Social Evolution of Gender. 7. Rocking the Cradle: Gendered Parenting. 8. Daily Bread: Gender and Domestic Labor. 9. Separate and Not Equal: The Gendered Division of Paid Work
  • Pt. III. The Politics of Gender. 10. Guarding the Gates: The Micropolitics of Gender. 11. The Visible Hand: Gender and the State. 12. Dismantling Noah's Ark: Gender and Equality.