The Sociological Construction of Gender and Sexuality
@article{Brickell2006TheSC, title={The Sociological Construction of Gender and Sexuality}, author={Chris Brickell}, journal={The Sociological Review}, year={2006}, volume={54}, pages={113 - 87} }
This essay considers how we might come to understand social constructionism sociologically. It examines a number of related approaches to gender and sexuality that speak to sociological concerns and might be termed social constructionist: historicism, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and materialist feminism. By recognising that social constructionism is multifarious rather than unified, we find that each social constructionist approach offers particular strengths for analysing the…
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