Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation

Woodward, Kath (editor)

ISBN 10: 0415222885 / ISBN 13: 9780415222884

Edité par Routledge in association with the Open University, London, 2000

A propos de cet article

4to. 166pp. Illus.,diagrs.,tabs. Pages showing signs of damp. In the series: "An Introduction to the Social Sciences: Understanding Social Change".

N° de réf. du vendeur 21395

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation
• Éditeur: Routledge in association with the Open University, London
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0415222885
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415222884
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good+
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice.

What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out?
This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.