TY - BOOK ID - 32814359 TI - Where the millennials will take us : a new generation wrestles with the gender structure PY - 2018 SN - 9780199324392 9780199324385 0190846798 0199324387 0199324395 0199324409 0199324417 PB - New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Gender expression KW - Sex role KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - United States KW - United States of America KW - Equal opportunities KW - Gender KW - Gender roles KW - Attitudes KW - Theory KW - Adulthood KW - Book KW - Gender equality UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32814359 AB - In this book Barbara J. Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it. In the first part of the book, Risman revises her theoretical argument to differentiate more clearly between culture and material aspects of each level of gender as a social structure. She then uses previous research to explain that today’s young people spend years in a new life stage where they are emerging as adults. The new research presented here offers a typology of how today’s young people wrestle with gender during the years of emerging adulthood. How do they experience gender at the individual level? What are the expectations they face because of their sex? What are their ideological beliefs and organizational constraints based on their gender category? Risman suggests there is great variety within this generation. She identifies four strategies used by young people: true believers in gender difference, innovators who want to push boundaries in feminist directions, straddlers who are simply confused, and rebels who sometimes identify as genderqueer and reject gender categories all together. The final chapter offers a utopian vision that would ease the struggles of all these groups, a fourth wave of feminism that rejects the gender structure itself. Risman envisions a world where the sex ascribed at birth matters has few consequences beyond reproduction. ER -