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Framed by Gender - How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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Framed by Gender - How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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In an advanced industrial society like the contemporary U. S.,
where an array of legal, political, institutional, and economic
processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality
persist? Are there general social processes through which gender as
a principle of social inequality manages to rewrite itself into new
forms of social and economic organization? Framed by Gender claims
there are, highlighting a powerful contemporary persistence in
people's everyday use of gender as a primary cultural tool for
organizing social relations with others. Cecilia L. Ridgeway
asserts that widely shared cultural beliefs about gender act as a
"common knowledge" frame that people use to make sense of one
another in order to coordinate their interaction. The use of gender
as an initial framing device spreads gendered meanings, including
assumptions about inequality embedded in those meanings, beyond
contexts associated with sex and reproduction to all spheres of
social life that are carried out through social relationships.
These common knowledge cultural beliefs about gender change more
slowly than do material arrangements between men and women, even
though these beliefs do respond eventually. As a result of this
cultural lag, at sites of innovation where people develop new forms
of economic activity or new types of social organization, they
confront their new, uncertain circumstances with gender beliefs
that are more traditional than those circumstances. They implicitly
draw on the too convenient cultural frame of gender to help
organize their new ways of doing things. As they do so, they
reinscribe trailing cultural assumptions about gender difference
and gender inequality into the new activities, procedures, and
forms of organization that they create, in effect, reinventing
gender inequality for a new era. Ridgeway argues that this
persistence dynamic does not make equality unattainable but does
mean that progress is likely to be uneven and depend on the
continued, concerted efforts of people. Thus, a powerful and
original take on the troubling endurance of gender inequality,
Framed by Gender makes clear that the path towards equality will
not be a long, steady march, but a constant and uneven struggle.
"The most important book on gender I have read in decades. Why has
gender proved so unbending? Ridgeway gives us answers, and paves
the way for a new feminist theory that incorporates decades of
studies on how gender bias operates at home and at work."-Joan C.
Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California,
Hastings College of the Law "In lucid prose, Cecilia Ridgeway
describes the social psychological processes that continually
reproduce gender inequality. Marshalling research from sociology
and psychology, Framed by Gender explains why women have not
attained equality and what would be required to reach that
goal."-Alice H. Eagly, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern
University
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