During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully
demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a
sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities,
past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective
social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social
structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social
life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of
the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of
gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist
scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also
includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in
corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses
specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning
gender, which are discussed across the full array of social
processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have
explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along
several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology
in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked
authors to include cross-national and historical material as much
as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and
evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better
future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too
often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric.
Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender
differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age
cohort lines."
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