Synopses & Reviews
Lorber argues that it is time to rebel against gender as a social institution'"to challenge its basic processes and practices. Feminists have tried to restructure and change the dynamics of interaction between women and men, but they have not pushed their agenda to the point of calling for the abolition of gender boundaries and categories. Breaking the Bowlsexplores why undoing gender must be the ultimate feminist goal and how that goal can be reached.
Breaking the Bowls is part of the Contemporary Societies series.
Synopsis
Lorber argues that it is time to rebel against gender as a social institution--to challenge its basic processes and practices. Feminists have tried to restructure and change the dynamics of interaction between women and men, but they have not pushed their agenda to the point of calling for the abolition of gender boundaries and categories. explores why undoing gender must be the ultimate feminist goal and how that goal can be reached. Breaking the Bowls is part of the Contemporary Societies series.
Synopsis
In , the sequel to , Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.
About the Author
Judith Lorber, an international scholar in gender studies, is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York.