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Deceptive Distinctions - Sex, Gender and the Social Order (Paperback, New Ed)
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Deceptive Distinctions - Sex, Gender and the Social Order (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this important book a leading feminist scholar surveys and
critiques gender research in a range of disciplines, showing how
distinctions between the sexes are maintained by ideology and
social controls. "A model of sociological common sense, as well as
of scholarship.... Epstein addresses basic theoretical,
methodological, and epistemological concerns that cut across most
sociological specialties. This book is required reading by every
gender sociologist.... It should be read as well by sociologists
whose specialty is not gender, and especially by theorists of all
stripes.... This is truly the capstone work of a mature scholar."
-Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Social Forces "Deceptive Distinctions
really has two agendas. The first, based on a review of a wide
range of scholarship, much of it quite recent, is to argue that men
and women are overwhelmingly similar and that any differences
between them are socially constructed. The second is to develop a
sociology of knowledge in which the intellectual roots of
scholarship on women serve as a case study. Epstein's project is
not only timely but ambitious as well." -Naomi Gerstel, Women's
Review of Books "In this sophisticated and incisive critique,
Epstein ranges from sociobiology to linguistics and from politics
to psychiatry to iterate her position that gender differences are
often used to support the existing structure rather than to advance
our understanding or expand our horizons." -Carol C. Nadelson,
M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry "Epstein's informative
critique... makes clear [that] the position of women is not an
isolated 'problem' but the inevitable result of a complex system of
power, opportunity, and incentive. Epstein shows [how] dichotomous
thinking still rules our lives.... By bringing together what
sociology knows to the contrary, she has helped move society toward
a solution." -Beryl Lieff Benderley, Psychology Today Co-published
with the Russell Sage Foundation.
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