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Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

Editors:

  1. Barbara J. Risman

    1. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  2. Carissa M. Froyum

    1. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA

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  3. William J. Scarborough

    1. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  • Comprehensive in its coverage of theory and research applications

  • Provides the most current and up-to-date information on the state of gender inequality and the scholarship of it

  • Synthesizes the diverse field of gender scholarship into a cohesive theoretical framework of gender structure theory

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Theoretical and Epistemological Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Gender as a Social Structure

      • Barbara J. Risman
      Pages 19-43

    5. Gender Theory as Southern Theory

      • Pallavi Banerjee, Raewyn Connell
      Pages 57-68

    6. Intersectionality and Gender Theory

      • Zandria F. Robinson
      Pages 69-80

  3. The Individual Level of Analysis in the Gender Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Becoming Gendered

      • Heidi M. Gansen, Karin A. Martin
      Pages 83-93

    3. Gendered Embodiment

      • Katherine Mason
      Pages 95-107

    4. Does Biology Limit Equality?

      • Shannon N. Davis, Alysia Blake
      Pages 109-118

    5. Gender Identities

      • Natalie N. Castañeda, Carla A. Pfeffer
      Pages 119-130

    6. Mental Health: An Intersectional Approach

      • Verna M. Keith, Diane R. Brown
      Pages 131-142

    7. Multiple Masculinities

      • James W. Messerschmidt
      Pages 143-153

  4. The Interactional Level of Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Framing Gender

      • Susan R. Fisk, Cecilia L. Ridgeway
      Pages 157-171

    3. Interactional Accountability

      • Jocelyn A. Hollander
      Pages 173-184

    4. Racializing Gendered Interactions

      • Koji Chavez, Adia Harvey Wingfield
      Pages 185-197

    5. Gendered Interactions in School

      • Kristen Myers
      Pages 199-214

  5. The Macro Level of Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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About this book

This handbook provides a comprehensive view of the field of the sociology of gender. It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage of the latest research on gender in the most important areas of social life, including gendered bodies, sexuality, carework, paid labor, social movements, incarceration, migration, gendered violence, and others. Building from previous publications this handbook includes a vast array of chapters from leading researchers in the sociological study of gender. It synthesizes the diverse field of gender scholarship into a cohesive theoretical framework, gender structure theory, in order to position the specific contributions of each author/chapter as part of a complex and multidimensional gender structure. Through this organization of the handbook, readers do not only gain tremendous insight from each chapter, but they also attain a broader understanding of the way multiple gendered processes are interrelated and mutually constitutive. While the specific focus of the handbook is on gender, the chapters included in the volume also give significant attention to the interrelation of race, class, and other systems of stratification as they intersect and implicate gendered processes.


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Keywords

  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender Structure Theory
  • Feminist Epistemology
  • Gender and the Global South
  • Individual-Dimension Theory
  • Gender essentialism and Self-Expressive Values
  • Developing Gendered Identities
  • Gender Bias in Modern Workplaces
  • Racializing Gendered Interactions
  • Gender Interactions at Schools
  • Gender and Social Communities
  • Gender and Organizational Theory
  • Sexuality on College Campuses
  • Gender Bodies and Intimate Relationships
  • Sexual Practices across the Life Course
  • Gendered Socialization of Emotions
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Barbara J. Risman, William J. Scarborough

  • University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA

    Carissa M. Froyum

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About the editors

Barbara J. Risman is currently a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 2018, she is a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Durham University, U.K.  She was previously Alumni Distinguished Research Professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Risman is mostly recently the author of Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure (Oxford University Press, 2018) and with Virginia Rutter, Families As They Really Are (Norton, 2010, 2015).  Professor Risman has served the profession in a variety of roles, as President of the Southern Sociological Society, Vice-President of the American Sociological Association, President of the Board of Directors for the Council on Contemporary Families, and President of Sociologists for Women in Society. In 2005, Dr. Risman received the Katherine Jocher Belle Boone Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. In 2011, Dr. Risman received the American Sociological Association’s Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. She has also received mentoring awards from Sociologists for Women in Society and from the University of Illinois at Chicago.    

Carissa Froyum is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. She is co-editor of Inside Social Life (Oxford) and Creating and Contesting Inequalities (Oxford) and former deputy editor of The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Her work on how identities and emotions reproduce inequality appears in Qualitative Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, and is forthcoming in Symbolic Interaction.

William J. Scarborough is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on the economic and cultural determinants of gender wage gaps across labor markets in the U.S. He has published multiple journal articles and book chapters on issues related to gender and race inequality.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

  • Editors: Barbara J. Risman, Carissa M. Froyum, William J. Scarborough

  • Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76333-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76332-3Published: 13 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09468-3Published: 24 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76333-0Published: 05 June 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1389-6903

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XII, 559

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Sociological Methods, Social Structure, Social Theory

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