Making Gender

Making Gender
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0807046337
ISBN-13 : 9780807046333
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Book Synopsis Making Gender by : Sherry B Ortner

Download or read book Making Gender written by Sherry B Ortner and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.


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