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Feminist Foundations
Toward Transforming Sociology
Edited by:
- Kristen A. Myers - East Carolina University, USA
- Cynthia D. Anderson - The May Institute Inc.
- Barbara J. Risman - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
April 1998 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
There can be no doubt that feminism has wrought enormous changes on the social sciences in general and sociology in particular. The contributors to this volume were asked to write about key pieces of feminist scholarship that had particularly influenced their sociological thinking. In addition, the editors invited major feminist scholars to comment and reflect upon the articles in each section. Rather than organizing the book by substantive subject areas, the editors' vision sees sociology as an integrated discipline where feminist contributions have influenced the shape of the whole by similarly influencing the distinct parts.
Introduction
Bridging the Gaps in Feminist Sociology
PART ONE: THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: CONFRONTING ANDROCENTRISM IN SOCIOLOGY
Jessie Bernard
My Four Revolutions
An Autobiographical History of the ASA
Joan Acker
Women and Social Stratification
A Case for Intellectual Sexism
Alice Rossi
Equality between the Sexes
An Immodest Proposal
Reflections
Christine E Bose
Jobs and the Gender Gap
Bringing Women into the Workplace
Doris Y Wilkinson
The Fourth Revolution
Reflections on Three Pioneers in the Transformation of American Sociology
PART TWO: EXPOSING THE GENDER GAP: SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL
Joan Huber
Trends in Gender Stratification, 1970-1985
Rose Laub Coser
Stay Home Little Sheba
On Placement, Displacement and Social Change
Janet Lever
Sex Differences in the Games Children Play
Rachel A Rosenfeld
Race and Sex Differences in Career Dynamics
Reflections
Toni M Calasanti
Using the `Master's Tools' and Beyond
Reconstructing Difference
Janet Saltzman Chafetz
From Sex/Gender Roles to Gender Stratification
From Victim Blame to System Blame
PART THREE: THEORIZING WHAT GENDER MEANS
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Ideal Images and Real Roles
Candace West and Don H Zimmerman
Doing Gender
Barbara J Risman
Intimate Relationships from a Microstructural Perspective
Men Who Mother
R W Connell
A Very Straight Gay
Masculinity, Homosexual Experience and the Dynamics of Gender
Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne
The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
Reflections
Douglas Mason-Schrock
Challenging the Self with Feminist Scholarship
Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Discourses on Women, Sex and Gender
PART FOUR: GENDER IN THE MACHINE: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men
Barbara F Reskin
Bringing the Men Back in
Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work
Joan Acker
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
A Theory of Gendered Organizations
Reflections
Irene Padavic
Personal Reflection on Three Gender and Work Articles
Patricia Yancey Martin
Gender and Organizations
PART FIVE: PANNING TO THE MARGINS
Verta Taylor and Leila J Rupp
Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism
A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism
Maxine Baca Zinn
Mexican-American Women in the Social Sciences
Bonnie Thorton Dill
The Dialectics of Black Womanhood
Patricia Hill Collins
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Reflections
Jacqueline Johnson
Finding Myself among the Long-Haired Women
Reflections on Gender, Race, Sexuality and Feminist Identity
Nancy Whittier
Reflections on Transformations in Feminist Sociology - and in Myself
Conclusion: The Philosophy of Feminist Knowledge
Contemplating the Future of Feminist Thought