Full Description
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.
Contents
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
