Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
During the past three decades, feminist scholars in almost all social and behavioral sciences, as well as the humanities, have successfully demonstrated the ubiquity and omnirelevance of gender as a socio-cultural construction in virtually all human colle
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Sociology of Gender
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Handbook of the
Sociology of Gender Janet Saltzman Chafetz University of IHouston IHouston, Texas
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Janet Saltzman Chafetz U n i v e r s i t y of H o u s t o n D e p a r t m e n t of S o c i o l o g y 495 Philip G. Hoffman Hall H o u s t o n , TX 7 7 2 0 4 - 3 0 1 2 USA [email protected]
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Contributors
Joan Acker, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 974031291 Denise D. Bielby, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106 Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Department of Sociology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77204-3474 Becca Cragin, Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322 Cynthia Cranford, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089 Mikaela J. Dufur, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210 Dana Dunn, Office of the Provost, Universit
