{"product_id":"paradoxes-of-gender-9780300064971","title":"Paradoxes of Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis feminist work draws from a wide range of critical, social and historical research to suggest that today's gender system is a constructed institution - designed to produce a subordinate class (women) to be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers and nurturers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant, compelling, and timely analysis of gender from a critical feminist perspective.\"—Patricia Yancey Martin, The Ohio State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary book that will become a classic. It is impossible to read this book and not rethink gender.\"—Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With remarkable intellectual breadth, Judith Lorber probes a series of paradoxes to theorize about gender as an all-encompassing social institution. This inclusive and compelling book will transform our thinking about society as well as women and men.\"—Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"That gender is one of the central axes around which social life revolves (like race or class) has become a social science truism. But Judith Lorber goes further in this deeply thoughtful work. Lorber claims gender is a central social institution, analogous to the state or the market. Wide-ranging, provocative, and eloquently argued, \u003ci\u003eParadoxes of Gender\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare works that define a field.\"—Michael Kimmel, Associate Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767247896919,"sku":"9780300064971","price":42.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300064971.jpg?v=1758712672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paradoxes-of-gender-9780300064971","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}