Judith Lorber
Biographic Data
| ID | 139424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Lorber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorber |
| SIGNATURE | LORBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 435 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Social Construction of Gender
Gender is familiar part of daily life that it usually takes a deliberate disruption of our expectations of how women and men are supposed to act to pay attention to how it is produced. Gendered roles change—today fathers are taking care of little children, girls and boys are wearing unisex clothing and getting the same education, women and men are working at the same jobs. In early childhood, humans develop gendered personality structures and sex…
Feminisms
Feminisms are political movements and theories of the origins and persistence of gender inequality. Feminist theories promulgate and bolster the goals of feminist political action. Feminist movements have arisen throughout the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with sometimes similar and often different political goals and with diverse theories of gender inequality. Underlying concepts tend to reflect similar principles about th…
The Socially Constructed Body: Insights from Feminist Theory
Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
The Gender Ambiguity of Lisbeth Salander: Third-Wave Feminist Hero
Why Do Bathrooms Matter
unlikely to be four separate bathrooms, only white women and men could depend on having someplace to pee when traveling (Cooper and Ruth 1999). Twenty years ago, the gendering of bathrooms became a contentious feminist issue. It was part of the fight for gender equality (Edwards and McKie 1996; Molotch 1988). Gendered bathrooms perpetuated gender inequality because there were never enough ladies' rooms to match their greater need. Arguing for uni…
Gendered and Sexed Brains
Judith Lorber (1987-1990)
When I became the first editor of Gender & Society, Mitch Allen, then an editor at Sage, told me that the journal would be successful if we got close to 1,000 library subscriptions in the first year (I think we got more than 900). What he was saying was that we needed to become part of the academic establishment. We were easily able to do that because Gender & Society filled a niche, empty at the time, 1987. Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture a…
Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy
Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives
Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies
Reviews the developments within gender and women's studies, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the 'cultural turn', and globalization. This book offers critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war, and feminist global politics
Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Categories
Journal Article Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Categories Get access Judith Lorber Judith Lorber Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, Cuny Direct correspondence to: Judith Lorber, 319 East 24th Street, Apt. 27E, New York, NY 10010. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 53, Issue 4, 1 November 2006, Pages 448–453, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2006.53.4.448…
Obituary: Dafna izraeli (1937–2003)
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeri…
Gender inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
Has Feminism Changed Science
What is Gender
Books in review
Beyond Gender: The New Politics of Work and Family . Betty Friedan , Brigid O'Farrell The Feminine Mystique . Betty Friedan
Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status
Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement
Women's status in the Western world has improved enormously, but the revolution that would make women and men truly equal has not yet occurred. I argue that the reason is that gender divisions still deeply bifurcate the structure of modern society. Feminists want women and men to be equal, but few talk about doing away with gender divisions altogether. From a social constructionist structural gender perspective, it is the ubiquitous division of p…
Gender-Paradoxien
Revisioning Gender
Crossing Borders and Erasing Boundaries: Paradoxes of Identity Politics
This paper explores the problems and dilemmas of creating and crossing identity borders and boundaries. The identities discussed are those of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity. When these identities fragment or cross-cut each other, a unified politics becomes problematic. If stigmatized identities remain primarily personal, identity-based groups provide support and resources, but do not affect systemic injustices or status inequalities. Th…
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeri…
Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology
Western ideology takes biology as the cause, and behavior and social statuses as the effects, and then proceeds to construct biological dichotomies to justify the 'naturalness' of gendered behavior and gendered social statuses. What we believe is what we see-two sexes producing two genders. The process, however, goes the other way: gender constructs social bodies to be different and unequal. The content of the two sets of constructed social categ…
Good Patients and Problem Patients: Conformity and Deviance in a General Hospital
This study investigates the attitudes and behavior of surgical patients and the reactions of doctors and nurses to that behavior. Previous research had suggested that medical personnel encourage trust, cooperation, uncomplaining-. ness, and undemandingness in but that not all patients subscribe to these norms to the same degree. This study found that patients did differ in the extent of their acceptance of good-patient norms, and, as predicted, t…
Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement
Women's status in the Western world has improved enormously, but the revolution that would make women and men truly equal has not yet occurred. I argue that the reason is that gender divisions still deeply bifurcate the structure of modern society. Feminists want women and men to be equal, but few talk about doing away with gender divisions altogether. From a social constructionist structural gender perspective, it is the ubiquitous division of p…
Beyond the Binaries: Depolarizing the Categories of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
Most sociological research designs assume that each person has one sex. one sexuality, and one gender, congruent with each other and fixed for life. Postmodern feminists and queer theorists have been interrogating bodies, desires, and genders, but sociology has not. Deconstructing sex, sexuality, and gender reveals many possible categories embedded in social experiences and social practices. As researchers, as theorists, and as activists, sociolo…
What is Gender
Choice, Gift, or Patriarchal Bargain? Women's Consent to In Vitro Fertilization in Male Infertility
This paper explores the reasons why women who are themselves fertile might consent to undergo in vitro fertilization (1VF) with an infertile male partner. The reasons often given are desire to have that particular man's child, or altruism, giving a gift to the partner. Although ethically, the decision should be completely woman's prerogative, because IVF programs usually treat the couple as a unit, she may be offered few other options by the medi…
Deviance as Performance: The Case of Illness
This theoretical bias of the labeling approach has helped form a more purely sociological analysis of deviance and social control. Neglect of the deviant, however, while possibly justified operationally, creates large gaps in the study of deviance. Using as data the social labels only and omitting the activity, intentions, or self-view of the individual deviant make it impossible to distinguish between the falsely accused and the true deviant, an…
Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy
Crossing Borders and Erasing Boundaries: Paradoxes of Identity Politics
This paper explores the problems and dilemmas of creating and crossing identity borders and boundaries. The identities discussed are those of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity. When these identities fragment or cross-cut each other, a unified politics becomes problematic. If stigmatized identities remain primarily personal, identity-based groups provide support and resources, but do not affect systemic injustices or status inequalities. Th…
Dismantling noah's ark
The Dynamics of Marital Bargaining in Male Infertility
This article provides empirical data on the dynamics of marital bargaining in the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in male infertility and the extent of the woman's agency in trying to resolve the situation, using interview data from nine married couples and three additional wives. Although there were too few cases for demographic variation among the categories, the research did indicate that choice and altruism entailed dynamics distinguishab…
Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Categories
Journal Article Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Categories Get access Judith Lorber Judith Lorber Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, Cuny Direct correspondence to: Judith Lorber, 319 East 24th Street, Apt. 27E, New York, NY 10010. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 53, Issue 4, 1 November 2006, Pages 448–453, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2006.53.4.448…
"On "The Reproduction of Mothering: A Methodological Debate
Symposium on R. W. Connell's Masculinities: Men's Gender Politics
Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Women and Medical Sociology: Invisible Professionals and Ubiquitous Patients
"Considering "A Biosocial Perspective on Parenting
Gendered and Sexed Brains
Beyond Gender: The New Politics of Work and Family . Betty Friedan , Brigid O'Farrell The Feminine Mystique . Betty Friedan
Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical Construction of Femininity and Masculinity
1. Femininity and Women in Biology and Feminist Theory 1.1 Gender Trouble and Making Sex 1.2 Back and Forward to Nurture and Nature 1.3 Feminist Visions of Biological Sex Differences 1.4 Feminist Ideology Haunted by Biology 1.5 Biological Ideology Haunted by Feminism 1.6 Toward Construction of Masculinity and Femininity 1.7 Possibilities and Constraints 1.8 Why the Brain? 2. Acceptance of Scientific Theories and Images Concerning Masculinity and …
Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations
Preface Part I: Explaining the Changing Sex Composition of Occupations 1. Occupational Sex Segregation: Persistence and Change 2. Queuing and Changing Occupational Composition 3. Consequences of Desegregation: Occupational Integration and Economic Equity? Part II: Case Studies of Occupation Change 4. Culture, Commerce and Gender: The Feminization of Book Editing -- Barbara F. Reskin 5. Industrial and Occupational Change in Pharmacy: Prescription …
Beyond Equality of the Sexes: The Question of the Children
This paper raises the question of how we can achieve stable parenting without the traditional structural underpinnings of the family-the sexual division of labor, economic dependence on males of women and children, and the combination of procreation with sex. Since feminists are working to remove these institutional supports of the traditionalfamily, alternative arrangements are explored, and a suggestion is made for the implementation of choices…
Deviance as Performance: The Case of Illness
This theoretical bias of the labeling approach has helped form a more purely sociological analysis of deviance and social control. Neglect of the deviant, however, while possibly justified operationally, creates large gaps in the study of deviance. Using as data the social labels only and omitting the activity, intentions, or self-view of the individual deviant make it impossible to distinguish between the falsely accused and the true deviant, an…
Professions and Professionalization
Editor's preface List of contributors Professions and professionalisation - editorial introduction J. A. Jackson 2. Occupations and professions C. Turner and M. N. Hodge 3. Professionals in organisations G. Harries-Jenkins 4. Professions or self-perpetuating systems? Changes in the French university-hospital system H. Jamous and B. Peloille 5. Teaching as a profession T. Leggatt 6. Critical notes on sociological studies of professional socialisat…
The Future of Marriage
Medical Men and Their Work: A Sociological Reader
Medical Men and Their Work: A Sociological Reader
Class Differences and Sex Roles in American Kinship and Family Structure
Illness, Interaction and the Self. Fred Davis
Beyond Equality of the Sexes: The Question of the Children
This paper raises the question of how we can achieve stable parenting without the traditional structural underpinnings of the family-the sexual division of labor, economic dependence on males of women and children, and the combination of procreation with sex. Since feminists are working to remove these institutional supports of the traditionalfamily, alternative arrangements are explored, and a suggestion is made for the implementation of choices…
Good Patients and Problem Patients: Conformity and Deviance in a General Hospital
This study investigates the attitudes and behavior of surgical patients and the reactions of doctors and nurses to that behavior. Previous research had suggested that medical personnel encourage trust, cooperation, uncomplaining-. ness, and undemandingness in but that not all patients subscribe to these norms to the same degree. This study found that patients did differ in the extent of their acceptance of good-patient norms, and, as predicted, t…
Women and Medical Sociology: Invisible Professionals and Ubiquitous Patients
"Social Problems" as the Journal of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions
Social Problems as the Journal of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions Get access Herbert A. Aurbach Herbert A. Aurbach Former Associate Editor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 24, Issue 1, 1 October 1976, Pages 76–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/800323 Published: 02 August 2014
Medical Men and Their Work: A Sociological Reader
Creating a Company of Unequals: Sources of Occupational Stratification in a Ghetto Community Mental Health Center
This study of a hospital-based community mental health center in an urban ghetto found that the dominance of the psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists and residents over the social workers and paraprofessionals was the result of and was maintained by both negotiative processes and traditional role structures, backed up by bureaucratic rules. The psychiatrists and residents got the best cases, the social workers the average cases, and the mini…
The Unkindest Cut: Life in the Backrooms of Medicine
The Dynamics of Sex and Gender: A Sociological Perspective.Laurel Richardson Walum
"Considering "A Biosocial Perspective on Parenting
"On "The Reproduction of Mothering: A Methodological Debate
General Practice Revisited: A Second Study of Patients and their Doctors
Women of the Upper Class
Men and Women in Medical School
The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine.Peter Wright , Andrew Treacher
Dismantling noah's ark
Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization
Choice, Gift, or Patriarchal Bargain? Women's Consent to In Vitro Fertilization in Male Infertility
This paper explores the reasons why women who are themselves fertile might consent to undergo in vitro fertilization (1VF) with an infertile male partner. The reasons often given are desire to have that particular man's child, or altruism, giving a gift to the partner. Although ethically, the decision should be completely woman's prerogative, because IVF programs usually treat the couple as a unit, she may be offered few other options by the medi…
Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations
Preface Part I: Explaining the Changing Sex Composition of Occupations 1. Occupational Sex Segregation: Persistence and Change 2. Queuing and Changing Occupational Composition 3. Consequences of Desegregation: Occupational Integration and Economic Equity? Part II: Case Studies of Occupation Change 4. Culture, Commerce and Gender: The Feminization of Book Editing -- Barbara F. Reskin 5. Industrial and Occupational Change in Pharmacy: Prescription …
Sociology (45 works) · Psychology (32 works) · Political science (23 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (10 works)