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Finding Gender

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

Nancy Burns
Nancy Burns
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University of Michigan
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How do we find gender in data from individuals?

I should start by saying what I mean by gender. I take gender to be, in part, the “values, norms and demands the female human being—precisely because she is female—comes up against in her encounter with the Other” (Moi 1999, 79). And, in part, it is what women and men make of the systematic way social interactions, structures, and institutions are organized around gender.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 137 - 141
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© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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