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The Gender Line : Men, Women, and the Law.

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Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, perm...

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Main Author: Levit, Nancy
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
Feminist theory > United States.
Feminist jurisprudence > United States.
Sex discrimination in justice administration > Law and legislation > United States.
Sex and law > United States.
Sex role > United States.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Men > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Social Science.
Fiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, permeates the fabric of our daily social routines. Preferring a notion of gender that is fluid and contextual, and denying that separatism is inevitable, Nancy Levit dismantles the myths of gender essentialism Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary data regarding the biological and cultural origins of.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages).
ISBN:9780814752715
0814752713