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Gender history
About: Gender history is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3355 publications have been published within this topic receiving 106164 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Mystery in Broad Daylight: Gender Formation and Psychoanalysis is described as a "mystery in broad daylight": the body and social practice of women in the context of political theory.
Abstract: Preface. 1. Some Facts in the Case. Part I: Theorising Gender. 2. Historical Roots of Contemporary Theory. 3. Current Frameworks. Part II: The Structure of Gender Relations. 4. The Body and Social Practice. 5. Main Structures: Labour, Power and Cathexis. 6. Gender Regimes and the Gender Order. 7. Historical Dynamic. Part III: Femininity and Masculinity. 8. Sexual Character. 9. The Mystery in Broad Daylight: Gender Formation and Psychoanalysis. 10. Personality as Practice. Part IV Sexual Politics. 11. Sexual Ideology. 12. Political Practice. 13. Present and Future.
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TL;DR: Lorber as discussed by the authors argues that gender is a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences.
Abstract: In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The Thirtieth Anniversary edition as discussed by the authors presents a survey of women's history with a focus on gender, gender and class analysis, including women workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860.
Abstract: Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Toward a Feminist History 1. Women's History 2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Part II: Gender and Class 3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History 4. Women in The Making of the English Working Class Part III: Gender in History 5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 6. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie a Paris, 1847-1848 7. "L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .": Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860 Part IV: Equality and Difference 8. The Sears Case 9. American Women Historians, 1884-1984 10. The Conundrum of Equality Notes Index
1,639 citations
TL;DR: According to as discussed by the authors, widely shared, hegemonic cultural beliefs about gender and their impact in what the authors call "social relational" contexts are among the core components that maintain and change the gender system.
Abstract: According to the perspective developed in this article, widely shared, hegemonic cultural beliefs about gender and their impact in what the authors call “social relational” contexts are among the core components that maintain and change the gender system. When gender is salient in these ubiquitous contexts, cultural beliefs about gender function as part of the rules of the game, biasing the behaviors, performances, and evaluations of otherwise similar men and women in systematic ways that the authors specify. While the biasing impact of gender beliefs may be small in any one instance, the consequences cumulate over individuals’ lives and result in substantially different outcomes for men and women. After describing this perspective, the authors show how it sheds newlight on some defining features of the gender system and illustrate its implications for research into specific questions about gender inequality.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure, and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of our society.
Abstract: In this article, the author argues that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure, and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of our society. To conceptualize gender as a structure situates gender at the same level of general social significance as the economy and the polity. The author also argues that while concern with intersectionality must continue to be paramount, different structures of inequality have different constructions and perhaps different influential causal mechanisms at any given historical moment. We need to follow a both/and strategy to understand gender structure, race structure, and other structures of inequality as they currently operate while also systematically paying attention to how these axes of domination intersect. Finally, the author suggests we pay more attention to doing research and writing theory with explicit attention to how our work can indeed help transform as w...
1,194 citations