The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality
- ISBN-10
- 0300154259
- ISBN-13
- 9780300154252
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Description
Annotation A leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our culture, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Illustrated.
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- 1993-01-01
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