The Sociology of Gender

An interdisciplinary collection of 21 works of feminist sociological scholarship drawn from periodicals including Signs, Feminist Studies, Feminist Issues, International Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, as well as from several books. Contributions provide cultural and historical perspectives on the sociology of gender by addressing, contesting, and refashioning its core concepts. In addition to many of the classic feminist discussions of gender as a category, the volume also includes selections chosen to illuminate related areas, such as the nature/culture dichotomy, the body as a site of difference, reproduction and sexuality as contiguous fields to gender, and questions about the production of sociological knowledge itself. Contributors include Monique Wittig, Evelyn Fox Keller, Patricia Hill Collins, and Donna J. Haraway. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR