Barbara J. Risman (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology,

Where the Millennials Will Take Us

A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure

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Produktbeschreibung

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780199324392
• ISBN-10: 0199324395
• Artikelnr.: 48995944

Autorenporträt

Barbara J. Risman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition and editor of Families as They Really Are.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Gender as a Social Structure
Chapter 3: Millennials As Emerging Adults
Chapter 4: Getting the Stories: Data Collection and Methodology
Chapter 5: The True Believers
Chapter 6: The Innovators
Chapter 7: The Rebels
Chapter 8: The Straddlers
Chapter 9: Bringing Gender into the Emerging Adulthood Literature: Where do the Millennials Stand?
Chapter 10: Getting to a Utopian World Beyond Gender
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Growing Up in the 21st Century: Interview Schedule
Appendix 2: Coding Scheme: Gender Structure Themes