Feminist Foundations: Toward Transforming Sociology

Abstract

Introduction Bridging the Gaps in Feminist Sociology PART ONE: THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: CONFRONTING ANDROCENTRISM IN SOCIOLOGY My Four Revolutions - Jessie Bernard An Autobiographical History of the ASA Women and Social Stratification - Joan Acker A Case for Intellectual Sexism Equality between the Sexes - Alice Rossi An Immodest Proposal Reflections Jobs and the Gender Gap - Christine E Bose Bringing Women into the Workplace The Fourth Revolution - Doris Y Wilkinson Reflections on Three Pioneers in the Transformation of American Sociology PART TWO: EXPOSING THE GENDER GAP: SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL Trends in Gender Stratification, 1970-1985 - Joan Huber Stay Home Little Sheba - Rose Laub Coser On Placement, Displacement and Social Change Sex Differences in the Games Children Play - Janet Lever Race and Sex Differences in Career Dynamics - Rachel A Rosenfeld Reflections Using the 'Master's Tools' and Beyond - Toni M Calasanti Reconstructing Difference From Sex/Gender Roles to Gender Stratification - Janet Saltzman Chafetz From Victim Blame to System Blame PART THREE: THEORIZING WHAT GENDER MEANS Ideal Images and Real Roles - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Doing Gender - Candace West and Don H Zimmerman Intimate Relationships from a Microstructural Perspective - Barbara J Risman Men Who Mother A Very Straight Gay - R W Connell Masculinity, Homosexual Experience and the Dynamics of Gender The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology - Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne Reflections Challenging the Self with Feminist Scholarship - Douglas Mason-Schrock Discourses on Women, Sex and Gender - Esther Ngan-ling Chow PART FOUR: GENDER IN THE MACHINE: STRUCTURED INEQUALITY The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men - Rosabeth Moss Kanter Bringing the Men Back in - Barbara F Reskin Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies - Joan Acker A Theory of Gendered Organizations Reflections Personal Reflection on Three Gender and Work Articles - Irene Padavic Gender and Organizations - Patricia Yancey Martin PART FIVE: PANNING TO THE MARGINS Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism - Verta Taylor and Leila J Rupp A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism Mexican-American Women in the Social Sciences - Maxine Baca Zinn The Dialectics of Black Womanhood - Bonnie Thorton Dill The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins Reflections Finding Myself among the Long-Haired Women - Jacqueline Johnson Reflections on Gender, Race, Sexuality and Feminist Identity Reflections on Transformations in Feminist Sociology - and in Myself - Nancy Whittier Conclusion: The Philosophy of Feminist Knowledge Contemplating the Future of Feminist Thought