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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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Paradoxes of Gender

by Judith Lorber

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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.
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ISBN:
9780300064971
Author:
Lorber, Judith
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Location:
New Haven
Subject:
Gender Studies
Subject:
Gender identity
Subject:
Sex role
Subject:
Feminist theory
Subject:
Social institutions
Subject:
General History
Copyright:
1994
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
September 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
435
Dimensions:
917x610x113 137
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