Research Catalog

Title

An introduction to sociology : feminist perspectives / Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace.

Author

Abbott, Pamela.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Wallace, Claire.

Description

xv, 334 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• This second edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives confirms the centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise and introduces students and the general reader to the wide range of feminist contributions to key areas of sociological concern. This completely revised edition includes material on new feminist theories and post-modern feminism, as well as incorporating the findings of recent empirical research.
• Written by two experienced teachers and examiners, it gives students of sociology and women's studies an accessible overview of the feminist contribution to all the key areas of sociological concern.

Subject

• Sociology > Philosophy
• Sociology > Methodology
• Feminist theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Feminist critique of malestream sociology, and the way forward -- 2. Feminist theory and sociology -- 3. Women and stratification -- 4. Education -- 5. Women and the life course -- 6. The family and the household -- 7. Women, health and caring -- 8. Women's work -- 9. Women, crime and deviance -- 10. Women and politics -- 11. The production of feminist knowledges.

ISBN

0415122929 (pbk.)

LCCN

95049777

OCLC

• 503148292
• ocn503148292

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries