Books written by Judith Lorber

Paradoxes of Gender

... John , 309n14 Monroe , Marilyn , 102 Moore , Ann , 316n3 Moore , Henrietta L. , 175 Morality , 63-68 , 79 , 151 Moreschi ... Pearson , Ruth , 287 Penelope ( Homeric character ) , 314n4 Penelope , Julia , 107 Perkins , Tessa , 211 ...
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Osmond, M. Withers, K. G. Wambach, D. Harrison et al. 1993. "The Multiple Ieopardy of Race, Class, and Gender for AIDS Risk among Women.” Gender 8* Society 7: 99-120. O'Sullivan, S., and P. Parmar. 1992. Lesbians Talk (Safer) Sex.
Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge

E.g., Oswald Hall concluded: “The various hospitals of the community studied form a status hierarchy. The Yankee Protestant hospitals have the most adequate facilities, those organized by the Catholics follow, while those organized by ...
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Johnson , Karen and Eileen Hoffman . 1994. “ Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation : The Role of Medical Specialization . ” Pp . 27-39 in Dan . Johnson , Richard E. and Anastasios C. Marcos . 1988. “ Correlates of Adolescent Drug ...
The Social Construction of Gender

Published in Cooperation with Sociologists for Women in Society "Women are women and men are men"--this old aphorism is being challenged with ever increasing frequency as social researchers focus on...
The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary

The conclusion of the book discusses why we haven’t had a gender revolution and how degendering would go a long way in creating gender equality.
Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies

The Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the ′cultural ...
Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives

For centuries the biological sciences have dissected, measured, and probed the human body as a product of nature. But from a feminist perspective, the human body is a social production....
Revisioning Gender

... inventing , and reinventing goddess symbols , their approach is characterized by an explicit effort to avoid ... For example , it is common to find in spiritual feminist writings multiple representations of goddesses , denials that ...
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics

Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

Breaking the Bowls explores why undoing gender must be the ultimate feminist goal and how that goal can be reached. Breaking the Bowls is part of the Contemporary Societies series.
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries.
Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge

With this fact of modern life in mind, this collection on the character of experts or professionals in general and of medicine as a profession in particular is uniquely fashioned.
The Social Construction of Gender

Published in Cooperation with Sociologists for Women in Society "Women are women and men are men"--this old aphorism is being challenged with ever increasing frequency as social researchers focus on...
Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives

This book focuses on key themes that reveal how gendered relations, ideologies, and practices shape human bodies.
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines thirteen evolving theories of gender inequality.
The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary

The conclusion of the book discusses why we haven’t had a gender revolution and how degendering would go a long way in creating gender equality.
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fourth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines various, evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance,...
Women Physicians: Careers, Status, and Power

Women Physicians: Careers, Status, and Power