Explores the achievements of British feminist sociology in theory, methods and empirical research. This book outlines the barriers to the development of feminism and explores contemporary challenges. It draws on a variety of empirical areas, from science to stratification and from healths and illness to the professions.

It draws on a variety of empirical areas, from science to stratification and from healths and illness to the professions to illustrate the depth and vitality of feminist perspectives.

Introduction

Of Silverbacks and Tree House When the Patriarchy Gets Worried Neither Young, Nor Luscious, Nor Sycophantic

Developments in Feminist Sociology, 1968-2002 The New Forms Possible to Women? The Achievements of Feminist Sociology Organizing the Necessary Work

The Question(s) of Method(s) Unconventional but Seething

Were There Any Founding Mothers? The Brotherhood of Professors, Male All

The Founding Fathers of Sociology Simply Invisible

Feminist Sociology and the Malestream Making Fictions of Female Destiny

Postmodernism and Postfeminism Prerogatives Usurped? Conclusions