For the past decade, the work of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West has revolutionized our understanding of gender and the notion of difference. Now for the first time these repeatedly anthologized works have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in sociology, women's studies and other social sciences. With a foreword by distinguished scholar, Dorothy Smith, and with pieces by Barrie Thorne, Howard Winant, and Patricia Hill Collins among others, this collection will serve as the definitive guide for gender and difference scholars. Contents: Part I Acknowledgements Foreword - Dorothy E. Smith Introduction Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West Part II- Theoretical Formulation, Criticism, and Response 1.Doing Gender Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman 2.Gender Inequality: New Conceptual Terrain Sarah Fenstermaker, Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman 3.Power, Inequality and the Accomplishment of Gender: An Ethnomethodological View Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker 4.Doing Difference Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker 5. Gender & Society Symposium on "Doing Difference" -Patricia Hill Collins, Lionel A. Maldonado, Dana Y. Takagi, Berrie Thorne, Lynn Weber, Howard Winant Reply - (Re)doing Difference - Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker Section III: Empirical Applications 6."Conclusion" to The Gender Factory - Sarah Fenstermaker 7. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender - Candace West & Diana Dull 8.Accountability in action: The Accomplishment of Gender, Race, and Class in a Meeting of the University of California Board of Regents - Cadance West & Sarah Fenstermaker 9."Doing Gender" Differently: Institutional Change in Second Parent Adoptions - Susan Dalton & Sarah Fenstermaker Section IV - Theoretical Elaborations 10.Performance and Accomplishment: Reconciling Feminist Conceptions of Gender -Molly Moloney & Sarah Fenstermaker 11.Doing Difference Revisited: Power, Resistance, and the (Mis)reading of Feminist Theory - Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West Conclusion 2.Central Problematics: An Agenda For Feminist Sociology -Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West References -from the publisher's website |