Theorizing Gender: An Introduction

by Rachel Alsop, Kathleen Lennon, Annette Fitzsimons

Book Overview

This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and post-structuralist accounts. Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged , but stark polarities are resisted. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745619444
• ISBN13: 9780745619446
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"