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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tarrant, Shira, 1963- When sex became gender. New York : Routledge, 2006 (OCoLC)654346375 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shira Tarrant |
| ISBN: | 0415953464 9780415953467 0415953472 9780415953474 |
| OCLC Number: | 62281555 |
| Description: | viii, 285 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : tending the embers -- Confronting the bonds of ideology : feminist theory in the Cold War years -- The setting : postwar politics in Britain, France, and the United States -- On the path to gender : Margaret Mead, socialization, and sex role ideology -- Mirra Komarovsky : functional analysis and the poignant signs of discontent -- Viola Klein : sociology of knowledge and the so-called feminine character -- Simone de Beauvoir and The second sex -- No woman is an island : Ruth Herschberger and postwar pollination -- When sex became gender. |
| Series Title: | Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.) |
| Responsibility: | Shira Tarrant. |
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"[Tarrant's] daunting and inspiring project...fills a void in feminist history and feminist scholarship; Tarrant has successfully located the feminist roots of Gender Theory's and Second Wave feminism's understanding of gender as socially constructed in a period believed to be entirely bereft of feminist thought." -- Catherine R. Mintler, Journal of International Women's Studies Vol. 9 #3 May 2008 Read more...
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