Constructing Gender

Author : Linda A. M. Perry,Lynn H. Turner,Helen M. Sterk
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438415932

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Constructing and Reconstructing Gender by Linda A. M. Perry,Lynn H. Turner,Helen M. Sterk Pdf

Constructing and Reconstructing Gender is an excellent compendium of current research, and will be appealing and useful to those interested in gender issues in a wide variety of disciplines. This book cuts across disciplines and scholarly methods, drawing from many backgrounds, including Communication, Linguistics, English, Business, Law, and Psychology. The interweaving of rhetorical, critical, phenomenological, and statistical methods gives readers a multifaceted analysis of gender. At the same time that this book shows the value of gender research in provoking new currents of thought, it also brings into focus two aspects of gender that are often confused: how gender operates as a cultural category that affects communication behavior, and how communication and language function to create gender categories.

Author : Linda A. M. Perry,Lynn H. Turner,Helen M. Sterk,Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791410099

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Constructing and Reconstructing Gender by Linda A. M. Perry,Lynn H. Turner,Helen M. Sterk,Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Pdf

A multifaceted analysis of gender.

Author : Hilary Fraser,R. S. White
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1875560343

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Constructing Gender by Hilary Fraser,R. S. White Pdf

Author : S. Sheehan,A. Dooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137076380

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Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland by S. Sheehan,A. Dooley Pdf

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.

Author : Rachel T. Hare-Mustin,Jeanne Marecek
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300052227

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Making a Difference by Rachel T. Hare-Mustin,Jeanne Marecek Pdf

Drawing on postmodernist scepticism about what we know and how we know it and on recent developments in the philosophy of science and feminist theory, this book offers a new perspective on the meaning of gender, one that is not determined by the traditional focus on male-female differences.

Author : Juliet Langman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482269550

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(Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice by Juliet Langman Pdf

The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, all of which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and poststructural theories of language. (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice presents a range of approaches to questions

Author : Elisabeth Prügl
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 023111561X

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The Global Construction of Gender by Elisabeth Prügl Pdf

Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries. Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses, The Global Construction of Gender focuses specifically on people who work at home for pay. Prügl explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of this century. As Prügl relates, home-based workers, both urban and rural, engage in a broad array of activities: they "sew garments, embroider, make lace, roll cigarettes, weave carpets, peel shrimp, prepare food, polish plastic, process insurance claims, edit manuscripts, and assemble artificial flowers, umbrellas, and jewelry." These (mostly female) workers are widely recognized as underpaid and exploited. In investigating their plight, Prügl describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities, including that of the working mother as a social problem, the wage-earning worker as a male breadwinner, the crafts-producing woman as the symbol of Third World nationhood, the woman micro-entrepreneur as the heroine of structural adjustment, and the new androgynous home-based consultant/freelancer/teleworker as the exemplary worker of a flexibly organized global economy.

Author : C. J. Pascoe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520271487

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Dude, You're a Fag by C. J. Pascoe Pdf

Draws on eighteen months of research in a racially diverse working-class high school to explore the meaning of masculinity and the social practices associated with it, discussing how homophobia is used to enforce gender conformity.

Author : Judith Lorber,Susan A. Farrell
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39076001188114

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The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber,Susan A. Farrell Pdf

Essentialist notions of gender difference are being challenged increasingly by research on the social construction of gender. Lorber and Farrell present a key collection of current research which illustrates how the constructivist approach has been applied to a variety of issues, including those centred on the family, the workplace, social class, ethnic identity and politics. Much of the recent work in this area has appeared in the journal Gender and Society which is the genesis of most of the papers in this volume.

Author : Isabel Zorn,Susanne Maass,Els Rommes,Carola Schirmer,Heidi Schelhowe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531902951

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Gender Designs IT by Isabel Zorn,Susanne Maass,Els Rommes,Carola Schirmer,Heidi Schelhowe Pdf

How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be. A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied. The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.

Author : Shekh Moinuddin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781443825351

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Media Space and Gender Construction by Shekh Moinuddin Pdf

Media Space has become a rich intellectual resource in understanding spatial complexities. This innovative book extends the understanding of spatial perspective to non-material spaces. The relationship between geography and gender is explored from an Indian perspective with the help of Media Space. Media Space is a virtual and metamorphic space where people can express and communicate views, ideas, images, and texts. Media Space is indeed a place where the construction of gender stereotypes, using various media, influences viewers. This study offers a diagnostic look at visual media and their consideration of soap operas, in term of both State and market responsibility, since liberalization took place in India. The study broadens the research scope of the geographical perspective in both non-material and material space, including television and other modes of virtual space.

Author : Suzanne LaFont
Publisher : Pearson College Division
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0205679005

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Constructing Sexualities by Suzanne LaFont Pdf

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. Designed to introduce readers to a broad range of relevant ideas and theories and to encourage critical thinking on a variety of sexuality and gender topics, this collection of articles, classic and current, addresses the relationships between sexuality, gender, and culture. The readings include descriptions of variations in sexual and gender ideologies, expressions of sexuality, gender diversity, and global issues. Gay rights, transgendered movements, intersexed awareness, female genital mutilation, male circumcision, AIDS, sex tourism, and the sex.com explosion on the internet are all current issues addressed.

Author : Justin Charlebois
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739144909

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Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities by Justin Charlebois Pdf

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities analyzes the construction of femininities within the key social institutions of school, work, and the media. The book draws from previous research to demonstrate how femininities are constructed in school and work and analyzes gendered representations in current fictional media.

Author : Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541672901

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Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling Pdf

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

Author : Kira Hall,Mary Bucholtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136045509

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Gender Articulated by Kira Hall,Mary Bucholtz Pdf

Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of "men's language," the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on the Internet, cultural mediation and Spanish use at New Mexican weddings and the uses of silence in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.