Law, Politics and the Gender BinaryPevná vazba
Law, Politics and the Gender BinaryPevná vazba The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of…
Specifikacia Law, Politics and the Gender BinaryPevná vazba
Law, Politics and the Gender BinaryPevná vazba
The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of its institutions. Gender has been disassembled and reassembled, variously considered as social practice, performance, ideology. In the last decades, the massive literature on gender has challenged this discursive construction.
This book gathers together contributions by experts in various fields - including law, sociology, philosophy and anthropology - to pin down the relationship between institutions and the gender binary. Yet the binary relationship 'man/woman' continues to be a characteristic trait of Western societies. Centrally, it examines the way in which the present-day gender binary is shored up by the conceptualization and regulation of sex and gender at societal and institutional levels.
Based on this examination, it