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During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiquity 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 of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.

This paper reflects on the experience of teaching a course on women and society in a sociology department over a period of seven years. This is discussed from different angles—related to sociology and its disciplinary location; questions of women's studies and feminist politics; and the complex dimensions of pedagogy in particular. The diversity amongst students and the politics of the classroom repeatedly emerge as critical issues in the paper. The essay concludes with some theoretical reflections on the problems of relating experience with analysis by drawing on the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel.

Traces the historical relation of gender to sociology & argues that the postmodern challenge has worked to alter the fundamental terms of debate. It is shown that traditional sociology's effort to incorporate gender into theories of stratification or inequality ended in ignoring the full power of gender as a category of social life. Feminist standpoint epistemology has informed a more explicitly feminist sociology, but a discussion of the work of Sandra Harding (1987) & Nancy Hartsock (1983) indicates that this framework simply replaces the masculine with a feminine viewpoint without troubling the basic totalizing framework of traditional sociology. Postmodern sociology is favored as an approach to gender because it destabilizes monolithic categories to ask how differentiations are produced by particular strategies & movements of power within the social field. By remaining close to the constitution of gender categories, it is argued that postmodern sociology opens the possibility of examining the relation of the actual & potential in the production of politics. 76 References. D. M. Smith

This paper describes two teaching strategies from our workshop, "Teaching the Sociology of Gender and Work," that can help students understand the mechanisms and consequences of workplace gender inequality at the macro- and micro-levels. Cynthia Anderson's class project uses wage and sex composition data that allows students to learn actively how data are used to study general trends and changes over time. It encourages students to explore the reality of their possible careers and fields in terms of wages, proportion of women and men, and other factors. Sharon Bird's class exercise requires students to consider the interactional dynamics of everyday work life and encourages them to see the subtle processes of marginalization and exclusion while also thinking about how to overcome gender biases. Some of this information will contribute to student angst about inequality in the workplace; thus, we conclude with suggestions for decreasing potential student distress and increasing student empowerment.

Preliminary Material /Sechiyama Kaku -- Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender /Sechiyama Kaku -- What is Patriarchy? /Sechiyama Kaku -- The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position /Sechiyama Kaku -- The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy /Sechiyama Kaku -- Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan /Sechiyama Kaku -- South Korean Patriarchy /Sechiyama Kaku -- Taiwanese Patriarchy /Sechiyama Kaku -- Patriarchy in North Korea /Sechiyama Kaku -- Patriarchy in China /Sechiyama Kaku -- Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia /Sechiyama Kaku -- Conclusions /Sechiyama Kaku -- Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? /Sechiyama Kaku -- Bibliography /Sechiyama Kaku -- Index /Sechiyama Kaku.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Editor -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- feedback -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Series Note -- Foreword by Karuna Chanana -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Feminist Challenge to Sociology: Disenchanting Sociology or 'For Sociology'? -- Part I Conceptual Issues in Feminism, Anthropology and Sociology -- 1. Feminist Social Theories: Theme and Variations -- 2. Problems with Patriarchy: Conceptual Issues in Anthropology and Feminism -- PART II Gender and Social Institutions -- Section A: Family, Marriage and Kinship -- 3. Single- and Dual-Earner Couples: Economic Status and Marital Power -- 4. Who Gains from Matriliny? Men, Women and Change on a Lakshadweep Island -- 5. Gender and the Khasi Family Structure: The Meghalaya Succession to Self-Acquired Property Act, 1984 -- 6. The Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families: 'Feminization of the Egyptian Family' or a Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles -- Section B: Work -- 7. Women and Development: A Profile of Active Agricultural Producers -- 8. Female Participation in Farm Work in Central Kerala -- 9. Joiners and Non-Joiners: A City Suburb and its Women's Club -- Section C: Education -- 10. Female Sexuality and Education of Hindu Girls in India -- 11. Unequal Schooling and Reproduction of Social Inequality in India -- Section D: State -- 12. Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State -- 13. Bodies of Evidence, Bodies of Rule: The Ilbert Bill, Revivalism and Age of Consent in Colonial India -- 14. Dalit Struggle, Nude Worship and the 'Chandragutti Incident' -- Related Readings in the Sociological Bulletin -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.