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9781483379487 English 1483379485 Accessible, timely, and stimulating, this updated Fifth Edition of The Kaleidoscope of Gender, by Joan Spade and Catherine Valentine, provides comprehensive discussion and analysis of the critical theories, research findings, and applications in gender studies. The metaphor of a kaleidoscope and three themes--prisms, patterns, and possibilities--unify topic areas throughout the book. Focusing on contemporary contributions to gender studies while incorporating frameworks and findings from the classical foundations of the field, this collection of creative and challenging articles by top scholars and activists--twenty new to this edition--explains how the complex, evolving patterns of gender are created and changed by people as they interact at individual, group, and institutional levels of life., An accessible, timely, and stimulating introduction to the sociology of gender, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, 5th edition provides a comprehensive analysis of key ideas, theories, and applications in this field. In this anthology, top scholars explain how the complex, evolving pattern of gender is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally and challenges students to question how gender shapes their daily lives. Editors Joan Spade and Kay Valentine balance contemporary contributions to the field while incorporating classical and theoretical arguments to provide a broad framework. Many of the selections have a cross-cultural focus, or examine the intersection between gender and other statuses. Each chapter opens with a long, introductory section that contextualizes the readings in that chapter., Undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender and sexuality across the social sciences.
9781483379487 English 1483379485 Accessible, timely, and stimulating, this updated Fifth Edition of The Kaleidoscope of Gender, by Joan Spade and Catherine Valentine, provides comprehensive discussion and analysis of the critical theories, research findings, and applications in gender studies. The metaphor of a kaleidoscope and three themes--prisms, patterns, and possibilities--unify topic areas throughout the book. Focusing on contemporary contributions to gender studies while incorporating frameworks and findings from the classical foundations of the field, this collection of creative and challenging articles by top scholars and activists--twenty new to this edition--explains how the complex, evolving patterns of gender are created and changed by people as they interact at individual, group, and institutional levels of life., An accessible, timely, and stimulating introduction to the sociology of gender, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, 5th edition provides a comprehensive analysis of key ideas, theories, and applications in this field. In this anthology, top scholars explain how the complex, evolving pattern of gender is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally and challenges students to question how gender shapes their daily lives. Editors Joan Spade and Kay Valentine balance contemporary contributions to the field while incorporating classical and theoretical arguments to provide a broad framework. Many of the selections have a cross-cultural focus, or examine the intersection between gender and other statuses. Each chapter opens with a long, introductory section that contextualizes the readings in that chapter., Undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender and sexuality across the social sciences.