Configuring Gender: Explorations in Theory and Politics

by Barbara Marshall

"Gender", as an idea or concept "defines the feminist critical project." It is in the spirit of this project that Barbara Marshall undertakes a critical examination of gender as a constitutive category, not only in feminist social theory but also in recent political debates.

This brief book focuses on how the idea of gender has developed both in scholarship and in the public mind, for the notion of gender has, as the author notes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551110946
• ISBN13: 9781551110943
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"