Author Description

Thinking About Women provides a comprehensive review of feminist scholarship in the social sciences. It is interdisciplinary in scope, but grounded in sociological theory and research. Although the primary focus here is on women, one cannot study gender without reexamining the social structure of men's lives as well. Taking a sociological perspective, this book shows how the experiences of women and men are created through social institutions and, therefore, can be transformed through institutional change. Maintains a strong and integrated focus on race, class, and gender throughout. Includes the most current scholarship on gender. Contains a new section on language, gender, and popular culture (Ch. 3). Includes new material on sexuality, including bisexuality and transgendered identities (Ch. 4). Incorporates new information on welfare reform, teen pregnancy, and poverty among women (Ch. 5). Emphasizes more fully the influence of postmodernism and the social construction of gender (Ch. 13). For anyone interested in Women's Studies, Gender Roles, Sociology of Women, Women in Society, Race, Class, and Gender, Diversity, Feminist Theory, and Social Inequality and Stratification..