Revisioning Gender

This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume's predecessor, (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the past decade with its emphasis on all levels of social structure from the most macro to the most individual. Revisioning Gender is a step, albeit a tentative one, toward constructing a new analytical approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries and the specific agendas that may be entailed within them. The editors, and the contributors to this important volume, illustrate how the use of gender by scholars in various and overlapping fields of study has helped alter concepts and research designs. The goal of this volume is to present, and encourage, the debates that advance the study of social science.

ISBN 0761906177   Pages 544 ISBN13 9780761906179 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher AltaMira Press,U.S.   Weight (grammes) 717 Imprint AltaMira Press,U.S.   Published in California Format Paperback   Series title Gender Lens Publication date 28 Feb 1998   Height (mm) 231 Library of Congress HQ1190.R48   Width (mm) 157 DEWEY 305.4   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Series Editors' Introduction
		Introduction
1		Reconceptualizing Gender
Ch. 1		The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework by Evelyn Nakano Glenn		3
Ch. 2		Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking by Joan Acker		44
Ch. 3		Some Reflections on Gender and Politics by Joan Wallach Scott		70
II		The Macrosocial Organization of Gender
Ch. 4		Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State by Anette Borchorst		99
Ch. 5		Gender and the Global Economy by Valentine M. Moghadam		128
Ch. 6		Gender, Work, Who Cares?! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization, and Business as Usual by Lisa D. Brush		161
III		Gender, Discourse, and Culture
Ch. 7		"Woman" as Symbol and Women as Agents: Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices by Susan Starr Sered		193
Ch. 8		Sex, Text, and Context: (In) Between Feminism and Cultural Studies by Suzanna Danuta Walters		222
IV		Gender in Social Institutions
Ch. 9		Moving Beyond Gender: Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge by Patricia Hill Collins		261
Ch. 10		Gender and Sexuality in Organizations by Patricia Yancey Martin and David L. Collinson		285
Ch. 11		Gender, Family Structure, and Social Structure: Racial Ethnic Families in the United States by Anne R. Roschelle		311
Ch. 12		Just Do ... What? Sport, Bodies, Gender by Shari L. Dworkin and Michael A. Messner		341
V		Gendering the Person
Ch. 13		Gender, Power Dynamics, and Social Interaction by Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske		365
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It is likely to become a benchmark in gender scholarship for some time to come. The collection addresses the recent past, and potential future, of gender analysis across a range of social issues and across traditions of social analysis. The 16 mainly original chapters are authored primarily by American sociologists, and many of them are well known for their expertise in the study of gender. In addition, and in keeping with the boundary-stretching ethos set out in the editors' introduction, authors include prominent voices from other countries and other disciplines, as well as more recent generations of gender scholarship. The broader reach of this collection, in terms of generational, international and cross-disciplinary scholarship, does much to enhance its usefulness and appeal. -- Jan Siltanen Canadian Journal of Sociology The book should appeal not only to academics but to all those who are interested in contemporary social questions. Journal Of Sociology and Social Welfare Articles in this collection spanning the social sciences are intended to reexamine gender in a more sophisticated manner as process and structure, from individual to societal levels of analysis. Calling disciplinary distinctions into question, the editorial focus does not assume dichotomous gender but begins to explain the meaning of gender. Contributors lay out the accomplishments and dilemmas of recent reconceptualization of gender in feminist theory and research, making it clear that there is no unified gender theory or constructs. They also address the macrostructures that organize gender, with regard to the state and political authority, the world-system of organizations and corporations, and the economies of industrial societies. Essays take upthe issue of gender discourse and culture at the macrosocietal level in religion and the media, and expand on feminist ideas of the social constriction of gender by the sciences, the workplace, family, and sports. Further, contributors deal with those interactive processes at the microlevel through which gender is constituted, performed, and recreated. The intent is to force a rethinking of social science concepts and to encourage debate with fresh perspectives. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- M. Klatte CHOICE Articles in this collection spanning the social sciences are intended to reexamine gender in a more sophisticated manner as process and structure, from individual to societal levels of analysis. Calling disciplinary distinctions into question, the editorial focus does not assume dichotomous gender but begins to explain the meaning of gender. Contributors lay out the accomplishments and dilemmas of recent reconceptualization of gender in feminist theory and research, making it clear that there is no unified gender theory or constructs. They also address the macrostructures that organize gender, with regard to the state and political authority, the world-system of organizations and corporations, and the economies of industrial societies. Essays take up the issue of gender discourse and culture at the macrosocietal level in religion and the media, and expand on feminist ideas of the social constriction of gender by the sciences, the workplace, family, and sports. Further, contributors deal with those interactive processes at the microlevel through which gender is constituted, performed, and recreated. The intent is to force a rethinking of social science concepts and to encourage debate with fresh perspectives. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- M. Klatte CHOICE

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