How Long to Read Gender Vertigo

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender Vertigo?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Gender Vertigo by Barbara J. Risman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Just as every society has an economic and political structure, so too every society has a gender structure. Barbara Risman's original research on single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children, reported in this intriguing book, weaves together qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, interviews, and observation. Risman shows how gender as a social structure affects individuals, organizes expectations attached to social positions, and becomes an integral part of social institutions. She provides empirical evidence that human beings are capable of enduring and affective intimate relationships without gender as the central organizing mechanism. The data also strongly indicate that men and women are capable of changing gendered ways of being throughout their lives. In her analysis of nontraditional families, Risman finds that gender expectations can be overcome if couples are willing to flout society and risk "gender vertigo." Most children of such families adopt their parents' beliefs about gender, but they do struggle with the contradictions between parental ideology and folk knowledge and expectations in peer relationships. The author argues that we can create a just society only by creating a society in which gender is an irrelevant category for social life--a post-gender society.

How long is Gender Vertigo?

Gender Vertigo by Barbara J. Risman is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender Vertigo Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Gender Vertigo aloud.

What Reading Level is Gender Vertigo?

Gender Vertigo is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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