Discussions of gender conceptions in the social sciences in the United States

Abstract

In this handbook the authors attempt to summarize the state of gender studies in the social sciences in the United States. Build on an previous overview twelve years ago (Analyzing Gender, 1987, edited by Beth B. Hess und Myra Marx Ferree) the goal of this collection is to “to re-vision gender with even more sophisticated lenses”, by focussing on the research done in the previous decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions feminists ask have changed. The focus of this collection is to take gender seriously as both process and structure, from the individual to social level of analysis, no longer to take dichotomous gender for granted, und to discuss a new framing of the intersectionality of gender, race, and class.