Is Gender Fluid?
A primer for the 21st century
$23.27
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards
When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? Is gender something we are or something we do? Is our expression of gender inborn or does it develop as we grow? Are the traditional binary male and female gender roles relevant in an increasin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500293683 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0500293686 |
| Author: | Sally Hines, Matthew Taylor |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The Big Idea |
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Critics Review
‘Crams so much detail into one book … while never feeling like an academic text. Frankly, all non-fiction books should be this gorgeously illustrated … this may well be the first book on gender that’s also a coffee table book’ - DIVA
‘A kind of choose-your-own-adventure using fonts: paragraphs are set in type of differing sizes depending on their importance’ - The Bookseller
Sally Hines
Sally Hines is Professor of Sociology and Gender Identities at the University of Leeds, where she was also Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from 2009 to 2014.
Matthew Taylor is Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation. Prior to that he was for 15 years Chief Executive of the RSA, a 250-year-old British institution devoted to enriching society through ideas and action to deliver a 21st-century enlightenment. A writer, public speaker and broadcaster, he has written numerous articles on policy, politics, public service reform and cultural theory, and frequently appears on Newsnight, The Daily Politics, and Radio 4’s Today and The Moral Maze. He was previously General Secretary and Chief Executive of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Britain’s leading think tank.
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