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9780415953474 0415953472 How did the term "sex" develop into "gender"? And is it really true that a vibrant feminist movement disappeared entirely after suffrage gains were won, only to suddenly resurface in the late 1960s? Conventional wisdom tells us that feminism died in the mid-1940s when women left their wartime factory jobs to return home. But this version of the story is not entirely true. When Sex Became Gender brings to light dominant ideas about sex roles and the feminist critiques these generated in the years between World War II and the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s. While discussing the famous feminist scholars-Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead-the book also hinges on the work of scholars who are lesser known to American audiences-Mirra Komarovsky, Viola Klein, and Ruth Herschberger. In contrast with current books that reinforce the divisions, disagreements, and disappearances between feminist generations, this book highlights the continuities between postwar interest in sex roles and contemporary arguments about gender. By establishing the historical and theoretical connections between feminist eras, Tarrant shows how protofeminist ideas of the past served as the foundation for today's focus on the social construction of gender. Book jacket., When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a key foundational paradigm for both second and third wave feminist thought. These conceptual foundations were created by a cohort of extraordinarily imaginative and bold academic women. While discussing the famous feminist scholars â€Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead â€the book also hinges on the work of scholars who are lesser known to American audiences â€Mirra Komarovsky, Viola Klein, and Ruth Herschberger, The postwar years have been an overlooked period in the development of feminist theory and philosophy and Tarrant makes a compelling case for this era being the turning point in the study of gender.
9780415953474 0415953472 How did the term "sex" develop into "gender"? And is it really true that a vibrant feminist movement disappeared entirely after suffrage gains were won, only to suddenly resurface in the late 1960s? Conventional wisdom tells us that feminism died in the mid-1940s when women left their wartime factory jobs to return home. But this version of the story is not entirely true. When Sex Became Gender brings to light dominant ideas about sex roles and the feminist critiques these generated in the years between World War II and the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s. While discussing the famous feminist scholars-Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead-the book also hinges on the work of scholars who are lesser known to American audiences-Mirra Komarovsky, Viola Klein, and Ruth Herschberger. In contrast with current books that reinforce the divisions, disagreements, and disappearances between feminist generations, this book highlights the continuities between postwar interest in sex roles and contemporary arguments about gender. By establishing the historical and theoretical connections between feminist eras, Tarrant shows how protofeminist ideas of the past served as the foundation for today's focus on the social construction of gender. Book jacket., When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a key foundational paradigm for both second and third wave feminist thought. These conceptual foundations were created by a cohort of extraordinarily imaginative and bold academic women. While discussing the famous feminist scholars â€Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead â€the book also hinges on the work of scholars who are lesser known to American audiences â€Mirra Komarovsky, Viola Klein, and Ruth Herschberger, The postwar years have been an overlooked period in the development of feminist theory and philosophy and Tarrant makes a compelling case for this era being the turning point in the study of gender.