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Paradoxes of Gender by Lorber, Judith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Paradoxes of Gender about?

In this pathbreaking book, a well-known feminist and sociologist—who is also the Founding Editor of Gender & Society—challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber views gender as wholly a product of socialization subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation. In her new paradigm, gender is an institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Drawing on many schools of feminist scholarship and on research from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, Lorber explores different paradoxes of gender:—why we speak of only two'opposite sexes'when there is such a variety of sexual behaviors and relationships; —why transvestites, transsexuals, and hermaphrodites do not affect the conceptualization of two genders and two sexes in Western societies;—why most of our cultural images of women are the way men see them and not the way women see themselves;—why all women in modern society are expected to have children and be the primary caretaker;—why domestic work is almost always the sole responsibility of wives, even when they earn more than half the family inco

Who reads Paradoxes of Gender?

Author

Lorber, Judith

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300058079

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology

Rating

3.65 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13