Paradoxes of Gender

By Judith Lorber

Book Overview

In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300064977
• ISBN13: 9780300064971
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"