HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF GENDER: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE (Definitions, Origins and Historical Views) - Softcover

Trigger, Dr Peta

 
9781707788668: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF GENDER: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE (Definitions, Origins and Historical Views)

Inhaltsangabe

This book is about gender past, present and future in four volumes. Volume 1, after giving some necessary background information about gender and how it differs from sex, considers the possible origins of gender in pre-historic communities. It then goes on to track the development of gender historically. Volume 2 is a discussion of contemporary views of gender, embracing those revealed in activist ideologies, by research surveys, including the author's, and in academic theories of gender. Volume 3 reviews the activities and ideologies of those groups and institutions which loosen the bonds of gender constraining thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The various categories of individuals which buck prevailing conceptions of gender, and mainstream reactions to them, are considered. In Volume 4, social forces for gender stasis and change, ideological, institutional and interpersonal are considered. How a future society without gender might result, and what it would be like, is the subject of the final part of the book.

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