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.
Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Lorber was actively involved in Sociologists for Women in Society from the early 1970's. She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, where she was the first Coordinator of the Women's Studies Certificate Program in 1988-1991. She was Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender Section in 1992-93 and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 “in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: RECONCEPTUALIZING GENDERThe Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race - Evelyn Nakano GlennAn Integrative FrameworkRewriting Class and Gender - Joan AckerProblems in Feminist RethinkingSome Reflections on Gender and Politics - Joan Wallach ScottPART TWO: THE MACROSOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDERFeminist Thinking about the Welfare State - Anette BorchorstGender and the Global Economy - Valentine M MoghadamGender, Work, Who Cares?! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization and Business as Usual - Lisa D BrushPART THREE: GENDER, DISCOURSE AND CULTURE'Woman' as Symbol and Women as Agents - Susan Starr SeredGendered Religious Discourses and PracticesSex, Text and Context - Suzanna Danuta Walters(In)Between Feminism and Cultural StudiesPART FOUR: GENDER IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSMoving Beyond Gender - Patricia Hill CollinsIntersectionality and Scientific KnowledgeGender and Sexuality in Organizations - Patricia Yancey Martin and David CollinsonGender, Family Structure and Social Structure - Anne RoschelleRacial Ethnic Families in the United StatesJust Do... What? Sport, Bodies, Gender - Shari L Dworkin and Michael A MessnerPART FIVE: GENDERING THE PERSONGender, Power Dynamics and Social Interaction - Peter Glick and Susan T FiskeNow You Can Choose! Issues in Parenting and Procreation - Barbara Katz RothmanEmbattled Terrain - Judith LorberGender and SexualityMaking Gendered People - R W ConnellBodies, Identities, Sexualities
