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There can be no doubt that feminism, and its influence on the academy, has wrought enormous changes on the social sciences in general and sociology in particular. This edited volume is an outgrowth of a discussion that began on the Sociologists for Women in Society Listserve, in which participants were asked to talk about key pieces in feminist scholarship that had particularly influenced their sociological thinking. Editors Kristen A. Myers, Cynthia D. Anderson, and Barbara J. Risman have chosen articles that fall into what they consider the intellectual genres that compose feminist sociology. This collection differs from others because the editors avoid organizing material by substantive specialty areas (i.e., family, race and ethnicity, criminology, or methods). Their vision instead sees sociology as an integrated discipline, where feminist contributions have systematically influenced the shape of the whole by similarly influencing the distinct parts. In addition to simply compiling a comprehensive list of important articles from the last two decades, the editors have invited major feminist scholars to comment and reflect on the articles in each section of the book. These reflec

Author

Kristen A. Myers; Cynthia D. Anderson; Barbara J. Risman; Janet Lever; Rachel A. Rosenfeld; Toni M. Calasanti; Janet Saltzman Chafetz; Cynthia Fuchs Epstein; Candace West; Don H. Zimmerman; Raewyn W. Connell; Judith Stacey; Barrie Thorne; Douglas Mason-Schrock; Esther Ngan-Ling Chow; Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Barbara F. Reskin; Irene Padavic; Patricia Yancey Martin; Verta Taylor; Leila J. Rupp; Maxine Baca Zinn; Jessie Bernard; Bonnie Thorton Dill; Patricia Hill Collins; Jacqueline Johnson; Nancy Whittier; Joan Acker; Alice Rossi; Christine E. Bose; Doris Y. Wilkinson; Joan Huber; Rose Laub Coser

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780761907862

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Science