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"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. Risman offers a revision of her theory of gender as a social structure and uses i...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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. Risman offers a revision of her theory of gender as a social structure and uses it to analyze life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe their gender identities, what they believe others expect of them, their ideologies, and their hopes and dreams for the future."-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199324392 0199324395 9780199324385 0199324387 |
| Index Number: | HQ1075 |
| CLC: | D771.281 |
| Call Number: | D771.281/R595 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Gender as a social structure -- Millennials as emerging adults -- Getting the stories : data collection and methodology -- The true believers -- The innovators -- The rebels -- The straddlers -- Bringing gender into the emerging adulthood literature : where do the millennials stand? -- Getting to a utopian world beyond gender -- Appendix 1. Growing up in the 21st century : interview schedule -- Appendix 2. Coding scheme : gender structure themes. |