* 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.
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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.
Series editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgementsPart oneIntroductionTheoretical dilemmasPart two: Socialization in a post-industrial societyGender and the post-industrial childGender and the post-industrial adolescentGender and young adulthoodPart three: The received wisdom queriedStigma, deviance, bodies and identityConsumption, locality and identityWork and identitythe indignities of labourHomelife and identitydomestic bliss?Conclusionsthe verdictReferencesIndex.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780335200375
Publisert
2001-11-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Open University Press
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

Forfatter

Biographical note

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.