Key Features:

• Provides users with a “gender lens” on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research

• Offers “framing” essays that summarize commonly used concepts and directions of research and provide an overview of each area (e.g., Media and Gender Socialization; Religion, Gender Roles in; Sexuality and Reproduction; Women’s Social Movements, History of)

• Examines basic aspects of social life from the most individual (self and identity) to the most global (transnational economics and politics).

• Contains new information on well-known subjects, including surprising facts that may counter common assumptions and research in areas of study where the impact of gender has been traditionally overlooked

• Reflects cutting-edge discussion and scholarship on current issues and debates regarding gender and society