When sex became gender /

Main Author: Tarrant, Shira, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Perspectives on gender
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : tending the embers
  • Confronting the bonds of ideology : feminist theory in the Cold War years
  • The setting : postwar politics in Britain, France, and the United States
  • On the path to gender : Margaret Mead, socialization, and sex role ideology
  • Mirra Komarovsky : functional analysis and the poignant signs of discontent
  • Viola Klein : sociology of knowledge and the so-called feminine character
  • Simone de Beauvoir and The second sex
  • No woman is an island : Ruth Herschberger and postwar pollination
  • When sex became gender.