This excellent new reader offers students an informed overview of some of the most significant sociological work produced on gender over the last three decades.

Includes chapters that address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. This book highlights the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. It describes the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived.

This textbook introduction to current feminist theories maps the development of feminist thought and suggests future directions.

In this introduction to the work of the architect of materialist feminism, Stevi Jackson explains Delphy's views on partiarchal exploitation, class gender and the institutionalization of feminism.

An overview of recent feminist and sociological debates on heterosexuality and the construction of desire - without recourse to psychoanalysis. The author draws on feminism, along with phenomenological and interactionist sociology, to critique the concept of repression and the place of sexuality.