Theory on Gender - Feminism on Theory

Social Institutions and Social Change

by Paula England (Editor)

How do various social theories explain gender inequality? In this collection of original essays, prominent sociologists discuss the strengths and the limitations of the theoretical traditions within which they have Marxism, world system theory, macrostructural theories, rational choice theory, neofunctionalism, psychoanalysis, ethnomethodology, expectation states theory, poststructuralist symbolic interactionism, and network theory.

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction

389 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1993