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Author Lorber, Judith.

Title Gendered bodies : feminist perspectives / Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore.

Imprint Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.4 L883g 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 272 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Neither nature nor nurture : theories of the gendered body -- "Are you my mother? my father?" : gendering procreation -- Barbie and G.I. Joe : making bodies masculine and feminine -- Eve, Venus, and "real women" : constructing women's bodies -- Adonis, Don Juan, and "real men" : constructing men's bodies -- Ambiguous bodies : transgender and intersex -- You don't need arms and legs to sing : gender and disability -- Political bodies : violence and violations -- Social bodies : changing bodies in changing social worlds.
Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Gender identity.
Sex differences.
Feminist theory.
Added Author Moore, Lisa Jean, 1967-
ISBN 1933220414 (alk. paper)
9781933220413 (alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2452515
IG# 1933220414

 
    
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