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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826751303321

Autore

Crawley Sara L. <1966->

Titolo

Gendering bodies / / Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008

ISBN

1-299-44981-6

0-7425-8138-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (593 p.)

Collana

The gender lens series

Altri autori (Persone)

FoleyLara J. <1972->

ShehanConstance L

Disciplina

306.701

Soggetti

Sex role - United States

Sex - Social aspects - United States

Sexual orientation - United States

Gender identity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface: Gendering and Embodiment; Acknowledgments; 1 Creating a World of Dichotomy: Categorizing Sex and Gendering Cultural Messages; 2 Doing "Woman"/Doing "Man": Gender Performances That Produce "Reality"; 3 Becoming Our Own Jailers: Surveillance and Accountability; 4 But Gender Is Real: Measurable Inequalities and Their Effects on Bodies; 5 Undisciplining Gender: Gender Agency and Resistance; 6 A World without Dichotomies?; References; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

In Gendering Bodies, Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction. This book is an accessible, yet comprehensive, theory of a sociology of the gendered body.