Questioning identity: gender, class, ethnicity
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individua…
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- Full title :Questioning identity : gender, class, ethnicity / edited by Kath Woodward.
Summary
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out?This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.
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- Publication Date:2004.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
Notes
Previous edition: 2000.
Published in association with the Open University.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 162 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0203392132, 9780203392133, 9780415329675, 0415329671, 9780415329682, 041532968X
- oclc:ocm56602094
- LC Classification:HM753
- Dewey Decimal:302.5
Table of Contents
Questions of identity / Kath Woodward -- Identity and gender / Jennifer Gove and Stuart Watt -- Identity, inequality and social class / Maureen Mackintosh and Gerry Mooney -- "Race", "ethnicity" and identity / Gail Lewis and Ann Phoenix.
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