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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959860803321

Titolo

Doing gender diversity : readings in theory and real-world experience / / edited by Rebecca F. Plante and Lis M. Maurer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2010

ISBN

0-429-98056-6

0-429-50093-9

0-429-96948-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 555 pages)

Disciplina

305.48/8

Soggetti

Sex role

Sex differences

Cultural pluralism

Diversity in the workplace

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2010 by Westview Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Gender Diversity and the Binary -- chapter 2 Learning How to “Do Gender” -- section 1 The Basics of Gender -- chapter 3 Constructing the Gendered Body -- chapter 4 Doing “It”: Sexualities -- section 2 The Microcosm of Gender: Individuals in Context -- chapter 5 Doing Gender Diversity: At Home and at Work -- chapter 6 Thinking Critically about Structures and Institutions in Our World -- Transgender Law Center -- chapter 7 Rattling the Cage: Social Change -- section 3 The Macrocosm of Gender: Institutions, Structures, and Politics.

Sommario/riassunto

This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions.