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This comprehensive handbook summarizes the state of gender studies, by examining the crucial research of the past decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. The book is an important step towards constructing a new analytical framework approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries. The contributors illustrate how the use of gender by scholars in various and overlapping fields of study has helped alter concepts and research designs

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Reconceptualizing Gender
• The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race
• An Integrative Framework
• Rewriting Class and Gender
• Problems in Feminist Rethinking
• Some Reflections on Gender and Politics
• Part 2 The Macrosocial Organization Of Gender
• Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State
• Gender and the Global Economy
• Gender, Work, Who Cares?! Production, Reproduction, Deindustrialization and Business as Usual
• Part 3 Gender, Discourse And Culture
• 'Woman' as Symbol and Women as Agents
• Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices
• Sex, Text and Context
• (In)Between Feminism and Cultural Studies
• Part 4 Gender In Social Institutions
• Moving Beyond Gender
• Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge
• Gender and Sexuality in Organizations
• Gender, Family Structure and Social Structure
• Racial Ethnic Families in the United States
• Just Do... What? Sport, Bodies, Gender
• Part 5 Gendering The Person
• Gender, Power Dynamics and Social Interaction
• Now You Can Choose! Issues in Parenting and Procreation
• Embattled Terrain
• Gender and Sexuality
• Making Gendered People
• Bodies, Identities, Sexualities

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CHOICE Review

Articles in this collection spanning the social sciences are intended to reexamine gender in a more sophisticated manner as process and structure, from individual to societal levels of analysis. Calling disciplinary distinctions into question, the editorial focus does not assume dichotomous gender but begins to explain the meaning of gender. Contributors lay out the accomplishments and dilemmas of recent reconceptualization of gender in feminist theory and research, making it clear that there is no unified gender theory or constructs. They also address the macrostructures that organize gender, with regard to the state and political authority, the world-system of organizations and corporations, and the economies of industrial societies. Essays take up the issue of gender discourse and culture at the macrosocietal level in religion and the media, and expand on feminist ideas of the social constriction of gender by the sciences, the workplace, family, and sports. Further, contributors deal with those interactive processes at the microlevel through which gender is constituted, performed, and recreated. The intent is to force a rethinking of social science concepts and to encourage debate with fresh perspectives. Upper-division undergraduates and above. M. Klatte; Eastern Kentucky University