Feminist Foundations Toward Transforming Sociology

by Kristen A. Myers; Cynthia D. Anderson; Barbara J. Risman

• ISBN13: 9780761907862
• ISBN10: 0761907866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-10
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

There can be no doubt that feminism has wrought enormous changes on the social sciences in general and sociology in particular. The contributors to this volume were asked to write about key pieces of feminist scholarship that had particularly influenced their sociological thinking. In addition, the editors invited major feminist scholars to comment and reflect upon the articles in each section. Rather than organizing the book by substantive subject areas, the editors' vision sees sociology as an integrated discipline where feminist contributions have influenced the shape of the whole by similarly influencing the distinct parts.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Bridging the Gaps in Feminist Sociology

PART ONE: THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: CONFRONTING ANDROCENTRISM IN SOCIOLOGY - Jessie Bernard

My Four Revolutions

An Autobiographical History of the ASA - Joan Acker

Women and Social Stratification

A Case for Intellectual Sexism - Alice Rossi

Equality between the Sexes

An Immodest Proposal

Reflections - Christine E Bose

Jobs and the Gender Gap

Bringing Women into the Workplace - Doris Y Wilkinson

The Fourth Revolution

Reflections on Three Pioneers in the Transformation of American Sociology

PART TWO: EXPOSING THE GENDER GAP: SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL - Joan Huber

Trends in Gender Stratification, 1970-1985 - Rose Laub Coser

Stay Home Little Sheba

On Placement, Displacement and Social Change - Janet Lever

Sex Differences in the Games Children Play - Rachel A Rosenfeld

Race and Sex Differences in Career Dynamics

Reflections - Toni M Calasanti

Using the `Master's Tools' and Beyond

Reconstructing Difference - Janet Saltzman Chafetz

From Sex//Gender Roles to Gender Stratification

From Victim Blame to System Blame

PART THREE: THEORIZING WHAT GENDER MEANS - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Ideal Images and Real Roles - Candace West and Don H Zimmerman

Doing Gender - Barbara J Risman

Intimate Relationships from a Microstructural Perspective

Men Who Mother - R W Connell

A Very Straight Gay

Masculinity, Homosexual Experience and the Dynamics of Gender - Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne

The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology

Reflections - Douglas Mason-Schrock

Challenging the Self with Feminist Scholarship - Esther Ngan-ling Chow

Discourses on Women, Sex and Gender

PART FOUR: GENDER IN THE MACHINE: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men - Barbara F Reskin

Bringing the Men Back in

Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work - Joan Acker

Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies

A Theory of Gendered Organizations

Reflections - Irene Padavic

Personal Reflection on Three Gender and Work Articles - Patricia Yancey Martin

Gender and Organizations

PART FIVE: PANNING TO THE MARGINS - Verta Taylor and Leila J Rupp

Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism

A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism - Maxine Baca Zinn

Mexican-American Women in the Social Sciences - Bonnie Thorton Dill

The Dialectics of Black Womanhood - Patricia Hill Collins

The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought

Reflections - Jacqueline Johnson

Finding Myself among the Long-Haired Women

Reflections on Gender, Race, Sexuality and Feminist Identity - Nancy Whittier

Reflections on Transformations in Feminist Sociology - and in Myself

Conclusion: The Philosophy of Feminist Knowledge

Contemplating the Future of Feminist Thought