Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This
introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration
of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine
men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing
women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people
shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has
been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and
done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures;
Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different
ways of thinking and learning to 'do' gender. Key sociological and
feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to
Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second
wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and
Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and
contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions
in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us
about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan.
This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender
studies, sociology and feminist theory.
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