Feeling Gender : A Generational and Psychosocial Approach / by Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bjerrum Nielsen, Harriet, Author.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2731-6459

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Sociology.

Social groups.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

2017.

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices. Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational and longitudinal research, the book works with temporality as a theoretical as well as a methodological dimension. Theoretically it combines Raymond Williams' idea of "a structure of feeling" with thework of Eric Fromm, Hans Loewald, Nancy Chodorow and Jessica Benjamin.

Contents:

1. Feelings and the social transformation of gender

2. Feelings of gender

3. Temporality in methods

4. Changing contexts

5. Born around WWI: refining gender complementarity

6. Born around WWII: struggling with gender equality

7. Born in the welfare society: individualising gender

8. Calibrating time and place

9. Psychosocial changes and continuities in gender

10. Gendering, degendering, regendering.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781349950829

1349950823

OCLC:

980600408

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access