Paradoxes of Gender

by Judith Lorber

• ISBN13: 9780300064971
• ISBN10: 0300064977
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-09-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial, ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Producing Gender
"Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender	p. 13
Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology	p. 37
How Many Opposites? Gendered Sexuality	p. 55
Men as Women and Women as Men: Disrupting Gender	p. 80
Waiting for the Goddess: Cultural Images of Gender	p. 97
Gender in Practice
Out of Eden: The Social Evolution of Gender	p. 123
Rocking the Cradle: Gendered Parenting	p. 144
Daily Bread: Gender and Domestic Labor	p. 172
Separate and Not Equal: The Gendered Division of Paid Work	p. 194
The Politics of Gender
Guarding the Gates: The Micropolitics of Gender	p. 225
The Visible Hand: Gender and the State	p. 253
Dismantling Noah's Ark: Gender and Equality	p. 282
Notes	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 335
Index	p. 413
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