Gender: An Ethnomethodological ApproachKessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but rather a social construct that varies across cultures. Valuable for its insights into gender, its extensive treatment of transsexualism, and its ethnomethodological approach, Gender reviews and critiques data from biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. |
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Contents
Chapter 1 The Primacy of Gender Attribution | 1 |
Chapter 2 CrossCultural Perspectives on Gender | 21 |
Chapter 3 Biology and Gender | 42 |
Chapter 4 Development Aspects of Gender | 81 |
Transsexualism | 112 |
Chapter 6 Toward a Theory of Gender | 142 |
Appendix Letters from Rachel | 171 |
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