Joan Acker, Lisa Adkins, Haleh Afshar, Sue Baxter, Jessie Bernard, Judith Butler, Cynthia Cockburn, Bob Connell, Bronwyn Davies, Kathy Davis, Christine Delphy, Catherine Donovan, Jean Dunncombe, Gillian Dunne, Richard Ekins, Sander Gilman, Heidi Hartmann, Brian Heaphy, Patricia Hill Collins, Arlie Hochschild, Janet Holland, Linda Imray, Chrys Ingraham, Lynne Jamieson, Susanne J. Kessler, Wendy Langford, Sophie Laws, Diana Leonard, Barbara McGinn, Alan Mansfield, Dennis Marsden, Emily Martin, Audrey Middleton, Heidi Mirza, Swasti Mitter, David Morgan, Esther Newton, Jan Pahl, Annie Phizacklea, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Geoff Raw, Emmanuel Reynaud, Steven Seidman, Janet Siltanen, Beverley Skeggs, Dorothy E. Smith, Liz Stanley, Gemma Tang Nain, Rachel Thomson, Barrie Thorne, Sylvia Walby, Jeffrey Weeks, Candace West, Kath Weston, Sallie Westwood, Vera Whisman, Sue Wise, Anne Witz, and Don H. Zimmerman

This reader offers students an overview of significant sociological work on gender produced at the end of the 20th-century. The text is informed by an understanding of gender as a structural social division and a set of everyday social practices and covers both theoretical and empirical work.

This reader offers students an informed overview of some of the most significant sociological work on gender produced over the last three decades. The readings cover both theoretical and empirical work representing a range of perspectives and each section includes selections which address the intersection of gender with differences of 'race', class and sexuality.