Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

By Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300046944
• ISBN13: 9780300046946
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Exploding Myths About Gender

(Author's description)This book offers a critique of the views and research that men and women possess essentially different emotional and cognitive traits. In a critical review of scholarship from the social sciences, history and philosophy, the book shows how scientific and everyday practices emphasize differences between the sexes and neglect reports of similarities.The book investigates the domains of work, leisure, education, politics and religion, as well as the microdynamics of interpersonal behavior--speaking, touching, and the use of personal space.It suggests that the belief and practice in difference supports the existing power structure.