Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality

by Holly Devor, Aaron H. Devor, Aaron Devor

Book Overview

Gender Blending examines the social construction of gender and its implications for the lives of gender blending females and for society in general. Aaron Devor constructs a theory which interprets gender as a social distinction related to, but different from, biological sex. Devor defines gender as a status learned by displaying the culturally defined insignia of the gender category with which one identifies.

Fifteen women who have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205336
• ISBN13: 9780253205339
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher