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" Thinking about women : "
Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware.
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876002
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Andersen, Margaret L.
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Thinking about women : : sociological perspectives on sex and gender /\ Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware.
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Tenth edition.
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Boston :: Pearson,, [2015]
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xxiv, 483 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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0205899676
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: 9780205899678
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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8. Women and religion -- Religion : a social force in people's lives -- The influence of religion -- Religion as social control : the case of witches -- Religion and the rise of feminism in the United States -- Women, gender, and religious faith -- Images of women in religion -- Religious texts as interpretive documents -- Gender and religious beliefs -- Women's status in religious institutions -- Religion and the gender division of labor -- Women as clergy -- Religion and social justice -- Race, religion, and civil rights -- Religion and antifeminism -- Feminism and the Religious Right in the United States -- The abortion debate : a conflict of worldviews -- Faith, feminism, and spirituality -- 9. Gender, crime, and deviance -- Understanding deviance and crime -- Early studies of crime and deviance -- Defining deviance -- Labeling and social deviance -- Deviance, power, and social conflict -- Feminist perspectives on deviance -- Women as victims of crime -- Rape -- Causes of rape -- Women as criminals -- Women's crime : how much? -- Causes of women's crime -- Women in the criminal justice system -- Gender and the courts -- Women in prison -- 10. Gender, education, and science -- The history of education : patterns of exclusion -- Gender and educational success -- Gender and schooling -- Academic achievement : is there a gender gap? -- Gender and the curriculum -- Class and race inequality -- The gender gap in higher education -- Sexual harassment -- The special insights of "outsiders" -- Gender, science, and society -- The status of women in science -- Science, feminism, and the social construction of knowledge -- Ways of knowing -- Feminist standpoint theory -- 11. Women, power, and politics -- Defining power -- Women and the state -- Women and the law -- Women in government -- The gender gap -- Do women make a difference? -- Women and the military -- Lesbians and gays in the military -- Feminism and militarism -- Rethinking the political -- The Women's Movement -- American feminism in the Nineteenth Century -- The emergence of the contemporary Women's Movement -- Feminism and civil rights -- The Second Wave of feminism -- Feminism for the Twenty-First Century : Third Wave.
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pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Studying women : why gender matters -- A focus on women : taking women seriously -- Studying women : Women's Studies and feminist scholarship -- Feminism -- Connecting the personal and the political : a sociological perspective -- What about men? -- Gender matters ... and so do race, class, and sexuality -- A framework for thinking about women -- pt. II. Gender, culture and sex -- 2. The social construction of gender -- Biology, culture, and society -- Sex and gender : what's the difference? -- Creating sex : the biological process -- Assigning sex identities -- Biological determinism -- What difference does difference make : nature? nurture? -- The difference culture makes -- The institutional basis of gender -- Socialization and gender identity : an ongoing process -- Sanctions and expectations -- Race and gender identity -- Socialization across the life course -- Theoretical perspectives on the formation of gender -- Identification theory -- Social learning theory -- Cognitive-developmental theory -- symbolic interaction and "doing gender" -- Comparing theoretical perspectives -- Is socialization enough? -- 3. Gender, culture, and the media -- Gender and language -- Popular culture and the media -- Analyzing the media -- The body culture -- Portrayals of age -- Presenting women's sports -- Gender, children, and the media -- Diverse, but controlling, images -- Violence, sexualization, and the media -- Theorizing the media's influence -- The sociology of knowledge -- Karl Marx : power, profit, and the production of ideas -- Karl Mannheim : knowledge and ideology -- 4. Sexuality and intimate relationships -- The social construction of sexuality -- The history of sexuality in the United States -- Contemporary sexual attitudes and behavior -- Women and men : still a double standard? -- The "hooking up" culture -- Equal rights for all? : changing public opinion about lesbians and gays -- Sexual development over the life cycle -- Menstruation -- Menopause -- Race, sexuality, and power -- Race and sexual politics -- Sex work and sex trafficking -- Love and intimate relationships -- Interracial relationships -- Friendship -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender experiences.
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pt. III. Gender and social institutions -- 5. Gender, work, and the economy -- Women's work : history matters -- The family-based economy -- The family-wage economy -- The family-consumer economy -- What counts as work? : the lingering role of ideology -- The cult of true womanhood -- The emergence of modern housework -- What is work? -- Race, class, and gender stratification -- The significance of class -- Race matters -- Economic restructuring and the economic downturn -- Gender in the workplace -- Who is in the work force? -- Who works where? : gender segregation -- Why the pay gap? -- Hitting the glass ceiling -- Gender and immigration -- The climate in the workplace -- Poverty and the declining safety net -- Poverty : a woman's issue -- Welfare : is it working? -- Retirement and Social Security -- Who cares? : the intersection of family and work -- Housework : changing with the times -- The second shift ... and, now a third : care work -- Policies for gender equity -- 6. Gender and families -- Historical perspectives on modern families -- Origins of the Western family -- Idealized womanhood -- Shaping public and private spheres -- Feminist perspectives on families -- The social construction of families -- Diversity in families : the intersection of class, race, and gender -- Linking social structure and human action -- The family ideal -- A portrait of contemporary families -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Cohabitation -- Gay and lesbian families -- Motherhood -- Fatherhood -- Balancing family and work -- Families in trouble -- Partner violence -- Marital rape -- Incest and sexual abuse -- Teen pregnancy -- Families and social policy -- Child care -- Family-friendly policies at work -- 7. Women, health, and reproduction -- The social structure of health -- Gender, work, and health -- Race, class, and health -- Gender, health, and social problems -- Gender ant the body : weight, food, and body image -- Substance abuse : alcohol, drugs, and smoking -- Women and AIDS -- Disability -- The politics of reproduction -- Birth control -- Abortion -- Racism and reproduction -- The politics of birth : pregnancy and childbirth -- New reproductive technologies -- Gender and the health-care system -- Women as health-care workers -- Health insurance -- The Women's Health Movement.
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pt. IV. Gender and social change : frameworks of feminism -- 12. Women and social reform : liberal feminism -- Frameworks of feminist theory -- The liberal basis of modern feminism -- Liberalism as a mode of social thought -- The origins of liberal thought : an age of enlightenment? -- The continuing influence of liberal thought -- Early liberal feminists -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Harriet Martineau -- John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill -- The critique of liberal feminism -- 13. Contemporary frameworks in feminist theory -- Diverse frameworks of feminist thought -- Socialist feminism : the importance of class and capitalism -- Karl Marx and historical materialism -- Class and capitalism -- Ideology and consciousness -- The Woman Question -- The feminist critique of Marx -- Family and economy in capitalist society : Juliet Mitchell -- The question of separate spheres -- Radical feminism : the power of patriarchy -- The sex/gender system -- Sexuality and the state -- Intersections of capitalism and patriarchy -- Comparing liberal, socialist, and radical feminism -- Multiracial feminism : an intersectional analysis -- Postmodernist feminism -- Queer theory and sexualities -- Continuing questions for feminist theory -- Glossary.
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Thinking About Women, 10th edition by Margaret L. Andersen and Dana Hysock Witham examines how gender operates in every aspect of society. This title is interdisciplinary in its coverage, yet grounded in sociological theory.
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Feminism-- United States.
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Feminist theory.
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Social change.
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Social institutions-- United States.
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Women-- United States-- Social conditions.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Social change.
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Social institutions.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.40973
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HQ1426.A6825 2015
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