Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Basic Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Varieties of Gender Theory in Sociology

      • Janet Saltzman Chafetz

      Pages 3-23

   3. A Feminist Epistemology

      • Joey Sprague, Diane Kobrynowicz

      Pages 25-43

   4. Similarity and Difference

      • Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

      Pages 45-61

3. Macrostructures and Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Comparative Gender Stratification

      • Joan Huber

      Pages 65-80

   3. Third World Women and Global Restructuring

      • Jean L. Pyle

      Pages 81-104

   4. Gender and Migration

      • Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Cynthia Cranford

      Pages 105-126

   5. The Feminization of Poverty

      • Sara S. McLanahan, Erin L. Kelly

      Pages 127-145

   6. Gender Movements

      • Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier

      Pages 147-175

   7. Gender and Organizations

      • Joan Acker

      Pages 177-194

   8. The Study of Gender in Culture

      • Becca Cragin, Wendy Simonds

      Pages 195-212

4. Microstructures and Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Gender Socialization

      • Jean Stockard

      Pages 215-227

   3. Gender and Social Roles

      • Helena Znaniecka Lopata

      Pages 229-246

   4. Gender and Interaction

      • Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Lynn Smith-Lovin

      Pages 247-274

   5. Gender, Violence, and Harassment

      • Mary R. Jackman

      Pages 275-317

5. Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319

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   2. Gender and Paid Work in Industrial Nations

      • Dana Dunn, Sheryl Skaggs

      Pages 321-342

During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq­ uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in­ corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio­ logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.

• Cultural Studies
• Gender
• Institution
• Nation
• Sex
• Sport
• education
• interaction
• migration
• politics
• poverty
• religion
• sociology

From the reviews:

“... I find the volume as a whole to offer a broad range of diverse sources and perspectives that are conveniently brought together in a single compendium. For a handbook that necessarily presumes a certain level of disciplinary knowledge, and hence some degree of jargon, it is relatively accessible and clearly written ... This book is a substantial resource ...” (American Journal of Sociology)

• Department of Sociology, University of Houston, Houston, USA

  Janet Saltzman Chafetz

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