Review of: Karl Lenz, Marina Adler: Geschlechterverhältnisse. Einführung in die sozialwissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung Band 1. Weinheim u.a.: Juventa Verlag 2010. — Karl Lenz, Marina Adler: Geschlechterbeziehungen. Weinheim u.a.: Juventa Verlag 2011.

Abstract

In their two-volume textbook on social-scientific gender studies, Karl Lenz and Marina Adler are guided by the established distinction between macro- and microsociology. The first volume traces theoretical perspectives on gender studies and various connections to culture. Furthermore, it also zeroes in on central topics of a social structure analysis of the gender order, namely law, politics, education, and work. The second volume focuses on socialization as well as selected findings of microsociological gender studies, namely body, sexuality, personal relationships, deviance, and violence. This overdue, informative, carefully researched, but comparatively traditional and empirically oriented introduction locates gender studies within the broader field of diversity research; however, the relationship between diversity and gender is unfortunately not reflected on.