Questioning Identity by Kath Woodward

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This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how new challenges and opportunities work out in practice.

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Questioning Identity by Kath Woodward

This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how new challenges and opportunities work out in practice.

Kath Woodward is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her research is in social inequalities, embodied selves and body practices and critical feminist theory, especially as evidenced in the field of sport-in particular boxing and football and the Olympics. Recent publications include are Birth and Death: Experience, Politics, Ethics with Sophie Woodward (2020); Psycho-Social Studies: an introduction (2014); The Politics of In/Visibility (2015), Planet Sport (2012) and Sporting Times (2012). She has taught at all levels and chaired a number of sociology and social sciences courses at postgraduate and under graduate levels, including the very and the very popular OU level 1 'Introducing Social Sciences' modules, having contributed to the most recent version presented in 2020.

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ISBN 13 9780415329682
ISBN 10 041532968X
Title Questioning Identity
Author Kath Woodward
Series Understanding Social Change
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2004-04-01
Number of pages 170
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.