Questioning Identity by Kath Woodward
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. 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 these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out? This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.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 |
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| 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. |
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