Overview
- Provides insights into the evolution of gender for the social science disciplines
- Features contributions across sociology, economics, history, anthropology, political science and psychology
- Offers personal reflections on gender as it has been crafted over time into feminist research and theorizing
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book gathers reflections from 15 US based feminist social scientists about gender – as orienting framework, as one aspect of an intersectional approach, as a feature of intellectual identity, and as a problematic construct. Gender as an analytic, dynamic concept has had an important impact within and across social sciences in the past several decades. That impact for some arose in dialogue with interdisciplinary women’s studies, and was sometimes troubled both in women’s studies and in relation to other interdisciplines and disciplines. As a new generation of gender scholars embarks on their careers in social science, Fenstermaker and Stewart's collection provides scholars an opportunity to reflect on the course of different disciplinary histories and autobiographies, as well as illuminate individual scholarly craft and disciplinary direction as our understanding of gender has unfolded over time. The volume will also represent one kind of collective wisdom to inspire younger scholars.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Fenstermaker is Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Abigail Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Considered
Book Subtitle: Feminist Reflections Across the US Social Sciences
Editors: Sarah Fenstermaker, Abigail J. Stewart
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48501-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48500-9Published: 13 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48503-0Published: 14 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48501-6Published: 12 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-8782
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnicity Studies