Gender and Everyday Life

by Mary Holmes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041542349X
• ISBN13: 9780415423496
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"