Review of: Brigitte Aulenbacher, Michael Meuser, Birgit Riegraf: Soziologische Geschlechterforschung. Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.

Abstract

This textbook by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit Riegraf, and Michael Meuser aims to reconstruct important developments and stages of sociological Gender Studies, describe research areas, illustrate connections to neighboring disciplines, and outline future questions. These ambitious aspirations are largely successful, although some features are necessarily emphasized while the neglect of others is inevitably accepted. However, the outline with its supposedly contemporary historical and science historical orientation does unfortunately leave unanswered what exactly the sociological nature of Gender Studies is and how the field of Gender Studies could and should position itself in relation to its sociological roots.