Changing Women, Unchanged Men?

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's foreword Preface and acknowledgements Part one Introduction Theoretical dilemmas Part two: Socialization in a post-industrial society Gender and the post-industrial child Gender and the post-industrial adolescent Gender and young adulthood Part three: The received wisdom queried Stigma, deviance, bodies and identity Consumption, locality and identity Work and identity the indignities of labour Homelife and identity domestic bliss? Conclusions the verdict References Index. ...

Klappentext

• 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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Series editor's foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
Part one
Introduction
Theoretical dilemmas
Part two: Socialization in a post-industrial society
Gender and the post-industrial child
Gender and the post-industrial adolescent
Gender and young adulthood
Part three: The received wisdom queried
Stigma, deviance, bodies and identity
Consumption, locality and identity
Work and identity
the indignities of labour
Homelife and identity
domestic bliss?
Conclusions
the verdict
References
Index.