Cheris Kramarae

Anne E. Mills

Barrie Thorne

Nancy Henley

Normal and Deficient

Language Acquisition in the Blind Child

Marilyn Yalom

Some Feminist Questions

Rethinking the Family

You see it in every school playground: the girls play only with girls, the boys play only with boys. Why? And what do children themselves think about this? This book develops fresh insights into the everyday social worlds of kids in schools.

Girls and Boys in School

Gender Play

Barbara Laslett

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.

Life Histories of a Movement

Feminist Sociology

Barrie Thorne

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