Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813524296 ISBN 13: 9780813524290

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of thirteen life stories recaptures the history of a political and intellectual movement that created feminist sociology as a field of inquiry. As the editors' introduction notes, the life history is a crucial tool for sociological thought. Life histories can be a bridge between individual experience and codified knowledge, between human agency and social structure. Life histories can enhance social theory by revealing categories of meaning usually submerged in the conventions of social science. The authors in this volume, all sociologists who have had great impact upon the field in which they write, show how personal relationships, experiences of inequality, and professional conflict and camaraderie interweave with the formation of social theory, political movements, and intellectual thought. The book makes a powerful impression upon anyone who has struggled with the relationship between social theory and everyday life. -- Accessible, lively articles that combine personal narrative with sociological theory. -- Contributors are some of the leading voices in feminist sociology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813524296
• ISBN 13: 9780813524290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Thorne Barrie