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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1 I. Reconceptualizing Gender Chapter 2 1. The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race: An Integrative Framework Chapter 3 2. Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking Chapter 4 3. Some Reflections on Gender and Politics Part 5 II. The Macrosocial Organization of Gender Chapter 6 4. Feminist Thinking About the Welfare State Chapter 7 5. Gender and the Global Economy Chapter 8 6. Gender, Work, Who Cares? ! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization, and Business as Usual Part 9 III. Gender, Discourse, and Culture Chapter 10 7. "Woman" as Symbol and Women as Agents: Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices Chapter 11 8. Sex, Text, and Context: (In) Between Feminism and Cultural Studies Part 12 IV. Gender in Social Institutions Chapter 13 9. Moving Beyond Gender: Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge Chapter 14 10. Gender and Sexuality in Organizations Chapter 15 11. Gender, Family Structure, and Social Structure: Racial Ethnic Families in the United States Chapter 16 12. Just Do. . . What? Sport, Bodies, Gender Part 17 V. Gendering the Person Chapter 18 13. Gender, Power Dynamics, and Social Interaction Chapter 19 14. Now You Can Choose! Issues in Parenting and Procreation Chapter 20 15. Embattled Terrain: Gender and Sexuality Chapter 21 16. Making Gendered People: Bodies, Identities, Sexualities
