Changing Women, Unchanged Men?: Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-Industrial Society - Couverture souple

Delamont, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335200370 ISBN 13 : 9780335200375

Editeur : Open University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Challenges what the author identifies as a constant motif in much of the social science, that whereas women's expectations have changed over the century, men's have not. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

* Is it true that women have changed and men have not?
* Is feminism still relevant?
* Are men the new underclass?

There is an enormous social science and wider literature on women, and a rapidly growing one on men and masculinity. The cliche that women have changed and men have not is well worn, yet no single text has established the truth behind this claim. Through a thorough examination of research evidence, this volume subjects that cliche to a tough, sceptical sociological analysis. Changing Women, Unchanged Men? compares the experiences of males and females in childhood, adolescence and adulthood within the main spheres of life - for example the family, education and work - and examines the issues of self, body, sexuality, and identity. For each sphere the key questions 'Have women changed? Have men stayed the same?' are posed, within the context of current sociological debates on social change.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University. Her previous publications include the highly successful The Sociology of Women: An Introduction (1980), and Supervising the PhD (1997), co-written with Paul Atkinson and Odette Parry, and also published by Open University Press.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0335200370
• ISBN 13: 9780335200375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144