Snowflakes and Snowdrifts: Individualism and Sexuality in AmericaUniversity Press of America, 1986 - Počet stran: 282 This study examines the tension between individualistic values and sex-related expectations in American society and analyzes their impact on many aspects of sexuality in America. Contents: A Society of Individuals; Masculinity and the Main Chance; Invisible Woman; Hypermasculinity; Hypomasculinity; The Spectre of Homosexuality; On Being Gay in a 'Straight' Society; Assimilation versus Pluralism; Transforming Sex-Related Categories; Repudiating Sex-Related Categories; and Confronting an Unliberated World. |
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... Gender : An Ethnomethodological Approach Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna propose a much more thoroughgoing cri- tique of sexual categorization . They point out out that " the grounds for questioning existing dichotomous gender ...
... Gender : An Ethnomethodological Approach Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna propose a much more thoroughgoing cri- tique of sexual categorization . They point out out that " the grounds for questioning existing dichotomous gender ...
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... gender , in all of its manifestations including the physical , is seen as a social construction , action that will radically change our incorrigible propositions cannot occur . " The authors accept the characteristically American ...
... gender , in all of its manifestations including the physical , is seen as a social construction , action that will radically change our incorrigible propositions cannot occur . " The authors accept the characteristically American ...
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... gender as an important external structure for providing a of personal identity . " Gender , " he argues , " for all its insen- sitivity to individual variation , may serve as a useful personal baseline , when community and family ...
... gender as an important external structure for providing a of personal identity . " Gender , " he argues , " for all its insen- sitivity to individual variation , may serve as a useful personal baseline , when community and family ...
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A Society of Individuals | 7 |
Masculinity and the Main Chance | 27 |
Invisible Woman | 49 |
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