Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Presents contributors who refine ideas that have been part of the conceptual toolkit of gender scholarship from its inception, identifying challenges to and applications for the concepts of the public/private dichotomy and of patriarchy.
Table of Contents
Advancing gender research across, beyond, and through disciplines and paradigms (M.T. Segal, V. Demos). Gender hierarchy in motel work: a macro-sociological and micro-economic analysis (N.N. Assar). Shifting definitions of the public-private dichotomy: legislative inertia on garment homework in Ontario (K. Mirchandari). Rethinking binary conceptions and social constructions: transgender experiences of gender and sexuality (P. Gagné, R. Tewsbury). Listening to women's voices: toward a comparative politics of women's difference (P. O'Loughlin
et al.). Bo tat quan (the) am: women and Vietnam's "Mother Buddha" (M.D. Frenier). A rose is not a Rosa is not a Rosann is not a Rosemary: the many names of Mary Elizabeth Roberts Smith Coolidge (M.J. Deegan).