Books in the Gender Lens series

This comprehensive handbook summarizes the state of gender studies, by examining the crucial research of the past decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed.

The second edition features the latest critical scholarship and fresh examples, while providing an excellent overview of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Showing the links between methodology and epistemology, the book highlights the power of research to make a difference and offers practical suggestions for researchers across disciplines.

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. The second edition includes analysis of LGBTQ issues, gender and crime on college campuses, and discussions of how police officers handle gendered crime. This book is essential reading for students of gender, criminology, and criminal justice.

Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction.

Focusing on the topic of the processes of change, this book discusses the domestic gender practices on many different levels. Its theoretical approach connects the discussion of gender practices within the home to the interactions and negotiations that individuals engage in on a day-to-day basis. It also includes empirical evidence for change.

Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.

Labor, laws, and love. Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men.

Gender and Families uses cultural events from our everyday lives to explore how families and gender are mutually produced and inseparably linked. In this updated second edition, Coltrane and Adams continue to demystify the complexities of gender and family with discussions of racial difference, ethnicity, and social class.

This book offers an overview of both social psychology and gender (as differentiated from sex), then discusses approaches to gender in social psychology research; how social psychology theories have been shaped by assumptions about gender, race, class, and sexuality; and the way gender influences identity and interaction.

Examines feminist theories of class and intersectionality and proposes a theory of gendered and racialized class processes as deeply embedded in capitalist practices. This book is suitable for those interested in a feminist discussion of class as a racialized and gendered process intimately tied to the capitalist economic system.

The second edition of The Gender of Sexuality remains a lively introduction to the concepts of gender and sexuality, with updates from research and popular culture throughout. The new edition features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender.

Considers the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine. This book offers a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness.

Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series challenges the notion that care-giving is a 'natural' pattern and demonstrates how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the authors address complex issues about caring, making them accessible to undergraduate students and lay people.

The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along the lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women, and their treatment in the policy arena.

Examining gender roles in social movements, this title shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. It is a suitable text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses.