ISBN:
9780415931786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Doing Gender Doing Difference
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Equality
;
Feminist theory
;
Sex discrimination against women
;
Sex role
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; SECTION I: THEORETICAL FORMULATION, CRITICISM AND RESPONSE; 1 Doing Gender; 2 Gender Inequality: New Conceptual Terrain; 3 Power, Inequality and the Accomplishment of Gender: An Ethnomethodological View; 4 Doing Difference; 5 Symposium on West and Fenstermaker's ""Doing Difference""; SECTION II: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS; 6 Work and Gender (From the Gender Factory); 7 Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Accountability and Affirmative Action: The Accomplishment of Gender, Race, and Class in a University of California Board of Regents Meeting9 ""Doing Gender"" Differently: Institutional Change in Second-Parent Adoptions; SECTION III: THEORETICAL ELABORATIONS; 10 Performance and Accomplishment: Reconciling Feminist Conceptions of Gender; 11 ""Doing Difference"" Revisited: Problems, Prospects, and the Dialogue in Feminist Theory; CONCLUSION: Central Problematics: An Agenda for Feminist Sociology; References; Permissions; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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