Gender

Books and articles:

Abbott. Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History (1910);

Addams. The Women at the Hague (1915);

Adkins. Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market (1995);

     -     Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity (2002);

     -     Feminism After Bourdieu (2005);

     -     The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency (2016);

     -     Gender and Labour in New Times (2017);

     -     Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure ( 2018);

Allen. Dependence and Exploitation in Work and Marriage (1976);

     -     Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and Change (1976);

Barrett. Women’s Oppression Today: The Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things (1980b);

     -     The Anti-Social Family (1982);

     -     Marxist/Feminist Encounter (1989);

     -     The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault (1991);

     -     Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates (1992);

Beauvoir. A Very Easy Death (1986, in French 1965);

     -     Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (2005, in French 1958);

     -     The Ethics of Ambiguity (2018, in French 1947);

     -     The Second Sex (2021, in French 1949);

     -     The Inseparables (2021, in French 2021);  

Bernard. The Sex Game: Communication Between the Sexes (1968);

     -     Women and the Public Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest (1971);

     -     The Future of Marriage (1972);

     -     The Future of Motherhood (1974);

     -     Women, Wifes, Mothers: Values and Options (1975);

     -     The Female World (1981);

     -     The Female World from a Global Perspective (1987);

Boserup. Woman's Role in Economic Development (1970); 

Breckenridge. Women in the Twentieth Century (1933);

Chafetz. Masculine/Feminine Or Human? an Overview of the Sociology of Sex Roles (1974);

     -     Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-Structural Theory of Sexual Stratification (1984);

     -     Female Revolt (1986);

     -     Feminist Sociology: An Overview of Contemporary Theories (1988);

     -     Gender Equity: An Integrated Theory of Stability (1990);

     -     Handbook on Sociology of Gender (2006).

Chodorow. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978);

     -     Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989);

     -     Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994);

     -     The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999);

     -     Individualizing Gender and Sexuality (2012);

Cockburn. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technical Change (1983);

     -     Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985);

     -     Two-Track Training: Sex Inequalities and the Youth Training Scheme (1987);

     -     In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1991);

     -     Gender and Technology in the Making (1993); 

     -     The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict (1998);

     -     Women Organizing for Change (2001);

     -     From Where We Stand: War, Womens's Activism and Feminist Analysis (2007);

     -     Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements (2012);

Collins P. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990);

     -     Race, Class and Gender (1992);

     -     Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (1998);

     -     Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004);

     -     From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (2006);

     -     Intersectionality (2016);

     -     Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (2019);

Connell. Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (1987);

     -     Masculinities (1995);

     -     Male Roles, Masculinities and Violence: A Culture of Peace Perspective (2000);

     -     The Men and the Boys (2001);

     -     Gender: In World Perspective (2009);

     -     Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change (2011);

Coolidge. Why Women are So (1912);

Crompton. Gendered Jobs and Social Change (1990);

     -     Women and Work in Modern Britain (1998);

 Delphy. The Main Enemy, A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (1977);

     -     Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies (1992);

     -     L'ennemi principal, Tome 1: économie politique du patriarcat (1998);

     -     L'ennemi principal, Tome 2: penser le genre  (2001);

     -     Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror (2015);

Ehrenreich. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1972);

     -     Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness  (1973);

     -     For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women (1978);

     -     Women in the Global Factory (1983);

     -     The Hearts of Men (1983);

     -     Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex (1986);

     -     Global Woman (2003);

Epstein. Women's Place: Option and Limits on Professional Careers (1970);

     -     The Other Half: Roads to Women's Equality (1971);

     -     Women in Law (1981);

     -     Deceptie Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social Order (1988);

     -     Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender (1999);

Esping-Anderson. Family Formation and Family Dilemmas in Contemporary Europe (2007);

     -     The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles (2009);

     -     Families in the 21st Century (2016); 

Firestone. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970a);

     -     Notes from the Second Year (1970b);

Friedan. The Feminine Mystique (1963);

     -     It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976);

     -     The Second Stage (1981);

     -     The Fountain of Age (1993);

     -     Beyond Gender (1997);

Gilligan. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development (1982);  

     -     Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education (1988);

     -     Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School (1990);

     -     Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991);

     -     The Birth of Pleasure (2002).

Gilman. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898);

     -     The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903);

     -     The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture (1911);

     -     His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers (1923);

Goffman. Gender Advertisements (1979);

Goldman. What I Believe (1908);

     -     Anarchism and Other Essays (1910);

Haraway. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985):

     -     Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989);

     -     Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature: (Essays from 1978–89) (1991);

     -     Modest_Witness @Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997);

Harding. The Science Question in Feminism (1986);

     -     Sex and Scientific Inquiry (1987);

     -     Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking  from Women’s Lives (1991);

     -     Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies (1998);

     -     Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues (2006);

Hartsock. Building Feminist Theory (1981);

     -     Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (1983);

     -     Women and Poverty (1990);

     -     The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays (1998).

hooks. Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1981);

     -     Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center (1984); 

     -     Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994);

     -     Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation (1994);

     -     Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000a);

     -     All About Love: New Visions (2000b);

     -     We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004);

 Irigaray. Speculum of the Other Woman (1985, in French 1974);

     -     This Sex Which Is Not One (1985, in French 1977);

     -     Elemental Passions (1992, in French 1982);

     -     An Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993, in French 1984);

     -     To Speak is Never Neutral (2002, in French 1985);

     -     Sexes and Genealogies (1993, in French 1987);

     -     Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful Revolution (1993, in French 1989);

     -     Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference (2007, in French 1990);

Klein V. The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology (1938);

     -     „The Stereotype of Femininity”, in Journal of Social Issues (1950);

     -     Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work (1956);

     -     Britain’s Married Women Workers (1965);

     -     Women Workers: Working Hours and Services: A Survey of 21 Countries (1965);

Komarovsky. The Unemployed Man and His Family (1940);

     -     Women in the Modern World (1953);

     -     Blue Collar Marriage (1962);

     -     Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth (1976);

     -     Women in College: Shaping New Feminine Identities (1985);

Lopreato. Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution (1984);

Lorde. Coal (1976); 

     -     The Cancer Journals (1980);

     -     Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1981); 

     -     Zami (1982);

     -     Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984);

Martineau. Society in America, 3 vols. (1837);

     -     Eastern Life: Present and Past; 3 vol. (1848);

McIntosh. "The Homosexual Role", in Social Problems (1968);  

     -     The Anti-Social Family (1982);

     -     Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate (1992).

Millett. Sexual Politics (1969);

     -     The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue (1971);

Mitchel. „Women: the Longest Revolution”, in New Left Review (1966);

     -     Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing, and Women (1974);

     -     The Rights and Wrongs of Women (1979);

     -     Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne (1982);

     -     Women, the Longest Revolution (1984);

     -     Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria (2000);

     -     Siblings: Sex and Violence (2003);

Mouffe. Feministische Perspektiven (2001);

Myrdal A. Nation and Family (1945);

     -     Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work (1956);

Nash. Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of Women” (1998);

Oakley. Sex, Gender and Society (1972);

     -     The Sociology of Housework (1974a);

     -     Housewife (1974b);

     -     Becoming a Mother (1979);

     -     Women Confined: Towards a Sociology of Childbirth (1980);

     -     Subject Women (1981a);

     -     „Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms”, in Roberts H. (ed.) Doing Feminist Research (1981b);

     -     The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women (1984);

     -     Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences (2000);

     -     Gender on Planet Earth (2002);

     -     Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science (2015); 

Reskin. Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Workplace (1986);

     -     Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women’s Inroads into Male Occupations (1990);

     -     Women and Men at Work (1994);

     -     The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment (1998); 

Risman. Gender in Intimate Relations: A Microstructural Approach (1989);

     -     Feminist Foundations: Towards Transforming Sociology (1998);

     -     Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition (1998);

     -     „Gender As a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism“, in Gender & Society (2004);

     -     Families as They Really Are (2010);

Rossi. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir (1973);

     -     Seasons of a Woman’s Life: A Self-Reflective Essay on Love and Work in Family, Profession and Politics (1983);

     -     Gender and the Life Course (1985);

     -     Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child Relations Across the Life Course (1990);

     -     Sexuality Across the Life Course (1994);

 Rowbotham.  Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972); 

     -     Hidden from History (1973a);

     -     Woman's Consciousness, Men's World (1973b);

     -     Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (1980);

     -     Friends of Alice Wheeldon (1986);

     -     The Past is Before Us: Feminism in Action since the 1960s (1989);

     -     Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First (1993);

     -     Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action (1993);

     -     Homeworkers Worldwide (1993);

     -     A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States (1997);

     -     Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (1997);

     -     A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States (1997);

     -     Women Resist Globalization (2001);

     -     Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights (2001);

     -     Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States (2016);

Rubin. „The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex”, in Rayna Reiter ( ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women (1975);

     -     „The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M.”, in Barbara Davis (ed.) Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M (1981);

     -     „Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”, in Carole S. Vance (ed.) Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1984);

     -     „Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries.”, in Joan Nestle (ed.)

     -     The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992);

     -     Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (2012).

Ruddick. Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk about Their Lives and Work (1977);

     -     Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write about Their Work on Women (1984);

     -     Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace (1989);

Smith D. Women Look at Psychiatry (1975);

     -     Feminism and Marxism: A Place to Begin, a Way to Go (1977);

     -     The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (1987);

     -     The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge (1990);

     -     Texts, Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling (1990);

Spivak. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987);

     -     Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988);

Therborn. Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 (2004); 

Walby. Localities, Class, and Gender (1985);

     -     Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (1986);

     -     Gender Segregation at Work (1988); 

     -     Restructuring: Place, Class, and Gender (1990);

     -     Theorizing Patriarchy (1990);

     -     Sex Crime in The News (1991);

     -     Medicine and Nursing: Professions in a Changing Health Service (1994);

     -     Gender Transformations (1997);

     -     Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey (2004);

     -     Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis (2004);

     -     Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives  (2007);

     -     The Future of Feminism (2011);

     -     Crisis (2015); 

     -     The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men (2017);

Weber Marianne. „Authority and Autonomy in Marriage“, in Sociological Theory (2003, in German 1912b).

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