Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

by Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Book Overview

During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq- uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306459787
• ISBN13: 9780306459788
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 10.3"