A Sociology of Women: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Colonization

This book integrates macro and micro sociological approaches to the study of women and presents major theoretical frameworks on sex and gender stratification from the enlightenment to postmodernism. It integrates social class, race/ethnicity and sex as dimensions of inequality across a range of social issues and includes chapters on - sociological and feminist approaches to the study of women; feminist methodology, women and work; women and schooling; women and the law; women and ageing; and gender, class and race.