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Gender roles & equality / the editors of Salem Press.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Editors of Salem Press, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- Sociology Reference Guide
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 98 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is designed to provide a solid foundation for the research of various sociological topics. This volume broaches the subjects of gender difference and the challenges to dominant social arrangements that historically defined strict gender roles. Introducing these topics is a set of sociological essays that examines the defining characteristics of gender and the analytical models used in the field.
- Contents:
- ""Sociology Reference Guide: Gender Role & Equality""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Kinsey Report""; ""Gender Differences: Biology & Culture""; ""Language, Gender & Reality""; ""Gender Roles""; ""Gender Socialization""; ""Deviance & Gender""; ""Family Gender Roles""; ""Gender & Domestic Responsibilities""; ""The Women's Rights Movement""; ""Feminist Theories of Gender Inequality""; ""Gender & Morality""; ""Structural Functionalist Theories of Gender Inequality""; ""Gender in the Classroom""; ""Gender & Economic Inequality""
- ""Gender & Stratification: The Effects of Social Marginalization""""Political Inequality""; ""Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781429834667
- 1429834668
- OCLC:
- 883331313
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