Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation

by Woodward, Kath

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Title Statements

Full title :Questioning Identity : Gender, Class, Nation.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.
Edition:2

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:Hoboken
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (171 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203392133, 0203392132
oclc:on1162628245
LC Classification:HM753.Q84 2004eb
Dewey Decimal:302.5

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Open University course team; Series preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Questions of identity; Chapter 2 Identity and gender; Chapter 3 Identity, inequality and social class; Chapter 4 'Race', 'ethnicity' and identity; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Index.