Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure" (Oxford UP, 2018)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Jun 16, 2020 · 59m

In Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure (Oxford University Press 2018), 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…