Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Gender Studies

This provocative book seeks to redress inaccuracies in Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia by bringing to the fore the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimensions of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourhood and kinship ties together. Although there are differences between male and female perceptions of sex roles in society, women perceive their situation as disadvantaged rather than less significant. Male-female interpretations of power and status tend to converge usually towards...

How can we accept the gender system in view of its ills? Yet, are we really at liberty to abolish gender differences, "when the gender system gives us benchmarks of personal identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of love?" With this double question, Steven G. Smith introduces his inquiry into the idea of gender and how it is implicated in love, respect, equality, and personal character. "Gender Thinking" is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?that is, what sort of thing do we...

An absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of gender transition. . . . a] carefully crafted, clearly written monograph which scholars of both sexuality and gender can profitably read.

"Contemporary Sociology"

A fascinating study, perceptive and well written, an excellent piece of work.

"Martin S. Weinberg, Indiana University"

Anne Bolin illuminates the array of social, psychological and physical changes experienced by a group of people in the process of changing gender.

"The strongest impulse leading me to write this book is my conviction that the women's movement is, or should be, just as much a matter for men as for women. I want to react, to respond as one male human, to the discovery--described for the most part by women--that the history of humanity over the past several thousand years has also been a history of the oppression of women by men.

"From the viewpoint of many feminist authors--among whom I include myself, although with some hesitation--all men are oppressors and exploiters of women, not necessarily because they want to be, but...