Full Description
Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the influence of cultural, historical, biological, psychological, and economic forces on ways in which we have come to define and experience femininity and masculinity, and on the impact and importance of gender categories. Highlighting that there is far more to gender than biological sex, it examines theories and research about how and why gender categories and identities are developed and about how interpersonal and societal power relationships are gendered. It takes a global and intersectional perspective to examine the interaction between gender and a wide range of topics including:
Relationships, intimacy, and concepts of sexuality across the lifespan
The workplace and labour markets
Gender related violence and war
Public health, poverty, and development
Gender and public leadership
This new edition includes increased coverage of trans visibility and activism, LGBTQ studies and critical masculinity studies, global developments in women's political leadership, links between gender and economic wellbeing, and cyberbullying.
Supporting theory with examples and case studies from a variety of contexts, suggestions for further reading, and a detailed glossary, this text is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of gender for the first time.
Contents
1. Gender: everybody has/does one, 2. Theoretical frameworks for thinking about gender, 3. Power, inequalities, and prejudice, 4. Relationships, intimacy, and sexualities, 5. The gendered workplace, 6. Gender, leadership, and public life, 7. Global patterns of gender-related violence, 8. Global patterns of gender and health, 9. The shape of our future: gender and the aging population, Epilogue: The future of gender
