The Fantasy of Individuality : On The Sociohistorical Construction Of the Modern Subject

• Main Author: Hernando, Almudena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Feminist anthropology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319607207
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60720-7
• Physical Description: XIII, 142 p. 6 illus. online resource.

This volume is a step in fleshing out the historical reasons for gender inequality from the origins of humankind to present times in the Western world. It argues that despite much critique during the last two decades, gender identities are still ultimately understood as closed and rigid categories w...