Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender
By Unknown Author.
Description
In the introduction to this book, the editors offer a way to conceptualize the interrelationships between gender relations and other systems of inequality and difference. The editors invoke the image of a prism, through which different groups are seen not as distinct, but in a continuous spectrum. The prism approach illustrates the varied ways that gender is constructed relationally, and thus experienced differently. Toward this end, the editors draw from the most recent studies of women and men, especially studies of gender relations in the context of different sexual, racial/ethnic, socia...
ISBN(s)
0205264158, 9780205264155
