ABSTRACT
SACKS examines men’s and women’s identities in all their complexity and depth, moving beyond a simple analysis of gender ideology to a broader discussion of identity formation through the interlocking components of gender, class, and race. In questioning whether race and gender can be reduced to class, as postulated within the Marxist paradigm, Sacks concludes that although race and gender can not be reduced to class, neither can a society’s gender ideology be properly analysed separately from its systems of class and racial divisions. In other words, a person’s gender identity is intimately enmeshed with, and understood within, particular economic and racial/ethnic realities.
