Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the “self” as a function of social learning. As such, it plays an instrumental role in describing the processes that create women’s everyday lives and also, their gender-specific behaviors. Originally published in 1987, the readings collected for this volume were designed to link the sociological study of women to the well-developed and well-known tradition of symbolic interactionists’ research and theory.
The volume brings together an outstanding collection of readings on women from a symbolic interactionist perspective. The majority of these carefully selected and classroom-tested readings were published in the 1980s. One early study is included to provide a historical perspective on contemporary works. Topics addressed include childhood socialization, marriage and the home, the marketplace and social class, and adult socialization.
Students and professors alike will welcome this collection designed specifically for use in a wide range of sociology and women’s studies courses.
This book is a re-issue originally published in 1987. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the “self” as a function of social learning. First published in 1987, the readings collected here were designed to link the sociological study of women to the well-developed and well-known tradition of symbolic interactionists’ research and theory.
Tribute to Mary Jo Deegan Joe R. Feagin. Preface. Section I: Beginning
1. Symbolic Interaction and the Study of Women: An Introduction Mary Jo
Deegan Section II: The Emergence of Women from Social Interaction
2. The
Woman Movement and Social Consciousness Jesse Taft
3. The Arrangement between
the Sexes Erving Goffman Section III: Acquiring Gender: Childhood
Socialization
4. Directions for an Interactionist Study of Gender
Development Spencer E. Cahill
5. What Does Childrens Art Work Tell Us about
Gender? Joy B. Reeves and Nydia Boyette Section IV: Acquiring and Negotiating
Gender: Adult Socialization
6. The (Mis)Acquisition of Gender Identity Among
Transsexuals Barbara J. Risman
7. College Women and Sororities: The Social
Construction and Reaffirmation of Gender Roles Barbara J. Risman
8. Biography
Building to Insure the Future: Womens Negotiation of Gender Relevancy in
Medical School Judith M. Hammond
9. Race, Class and Gender: Prospects for an
All-Inclusive Sisterhood Bonnie Thornton Dill Section V: Marriage and the
Home: The Family Claim for Wives
10. Corporate Wives: Longing for Liberation
or Satisfied with the Status Quo? Margaret L. Andersen
11. The Phenomenon of
the Public Wife: An Exercise in Goffmans Impression Management Joanna B.
Gillespie
12. Couples Who Live Apart: Time/Place Disjunctions and Their
Consequences Harriet Engel Gross Section VI: Marriage and the Home: The
Family Claim for Mothers
13. The Social Psychology of a Miscarriage: An
Application of Symbolic Interaction Theory and Method Schulamit Reinharz
14.
Passion, Submission and Motherhood: The Negotiation of Identity by Unmarried
Innercity Chicanas Ruth Horowitz
15. Like Other Women: Perspectives of
Mothers with Physical Disabilities Susan Shaul, Pamela J. Dowling and Bernice
F. Laden Section VII: The Marketplace and Social Class: The Social Claim
16.
Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to
Token Women Rosabeth Moss Kanter
17. Sexual Politics in the Workplace: The
Interactional World of Policewomen Susan E. Martin
18. Race, Sex, and Class:
Black Female Tobacco Workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1920-1940, and the
Development of Female Consciousness Beverly W. Jones
19. The Making of a
Female Researcher: Role Problems in Field Work Lois Easterday, Diana
Papademas, Laura Schorr and Catherine Valentine Section VIII: Working
Hypotheses as Problematic Solutions
20. Collective Protest and the
Meritocracy: Faculty Women and Sex Discrimination Lawsuits Emily Abel
21.
Negotiating Trouble in a Battered Womens Shelter Kathleen J. Ferraro
22.
Feminism and the Mass Media: A Case Study of The Womens Room as Novel and
Television Film Linda M. Blum
23. Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian
Workplace Kathleen M. Weston and Lisa B. Rofel Section IX: Concluding and
Beginning
24. Working Hypotheses for Women and Social Change Mary Jo Deegan.
Index.
Mary Jo Deegan (19462024) was professor emerita in sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and executive director of the the Jane Addams Research Center in St. Joseph, Michigan. Deegan earned the B.S. in chemistry and mathematics at Western Michigan University (1969) and the Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago (1975). She is widely known for archival studies of Jane Addams and the Chicago schools of sociology and for recovering the stories of dozens of early women sociologists. She was also an authority on George Herbert Mead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the core codes embedded in American ritual dramas. The recipient of numerous honors, Deegan was made an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy in 1995 by order of E. Benjamin Nelson, Governor of the State of Nebraska, for distinguished service to the citizens of Nebraska. She received the 2002 Distinguished Scholarly Career Award from the American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought.
Michael R. Hill (b. 1944) is associate director of the Jane Addams Research Center in St. Joseph, Michigan. Hills prior teaching posts include: Iowa State University, Albion College, The University of Nebraska at Omaha, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Notre Dame. He earned doctorates in geography (1982) and sociology (1989) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is an authority on archival research, Nebraska sociology, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Harriet Martineau. Hill received the 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Career Award from the American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought.
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