Revisioning Gender

by Ferree, Myra Marx; Lorber, Judith; Hess, Beth B.

• ISBN13: 9780761906162
• ISBN10: 0761906169
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

This comprehensive handbook summarizes the state of gender studies, by examining the crucial research of the past decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. The book is an important step towards constructing a new analytical framework approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries. The contributors illustrate how the use of gender by scholars in various and overlapping fields of study has helped alter concepts and research designs

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction
Reconceptualizing Gender
The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework	p. 3
Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking	p. 44
Some Reflections on Gender and Politics	p. 70
The Macrosocial Organization of Gender
Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State	p. 99
Gender and the Global Economy	p. 128
Gender, Work, Who Cares?! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization, and Business as Usual	p. 161
Gender, Discourse, and Culture
"Woman" as Symbol and Women as Agents: Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices	p. 193
Sex, Text, and Context: (In) Between Feminism and Cultural Studies	p. 222
Gender in Social Institutions
Moving Beyond Gender: Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge	p. 261
Gender and Sexuality in Organizations	p. 285
Gender, Family Structure, and Social Structure: Racial Ethnic Families in the United States	p. 311
Just Do ... What? Sport, Bodies, Gender	p. 341
Gendering the Person
Gender, Power Dynamics, and Social Interaction	p. 365
Now You Can Choose! Issues in Parenting and Procreation	p. 399
Embattled Terrain: Gender and Sexuality	p. 416
Making Gendered People: Bodies, Identities, Sexualities	p. 449
Index	p. 473
About the Contributors	p. 495
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