CONSTRUCTING GENDERED BODIES by Kathryn Backett-Milburn (Editor), Linda McKie (Editor) ( 9780333774625 )

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Title:

CONSTRUCTING GENDERED BODIES

By:

Kathryn Backett-Milburn (Editor), Linda McKie (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0333774620

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9780333774625

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

27 March, 2001

Series:

New Trends in Globalization

Pages:

272

Description:

Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices.

Synopsis:

Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to social arenas of moral and medical regulation.

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4 black & white illustrations, biography

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Palgrave Macmillan

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