The Social Life of Gender (SAGE Sociological Essentials Series) - Softcover

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Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She grew up in Calcutta, India, but has moved steadily west since then, receiving her AB from Bryn Mawr College, and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been at Berkeley since 1993. Professor Ray′s areas of specialization are gender and feminist theory, domination and inequality, the emerging middle classes, and social movements. Publications include Fields of Protest: Women′s Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999; and in India, Kali for Women, 2000), Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics, co-edited with Mary Katzenstein (Rowman and Littlefeld, 2005), Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India, co-authored with Seemin Qayum (Stanford University Press, 2009), Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, co-edited with Amita Baviskar (Routledge 2011) and Handbook on Gender (Oxford University Press, India, 2012).

Jennifer Dawn Carlson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include gender, criminology, political sociology and sociology of culture. Her dissertation, "Clinging to their guns? Gender, Race and the Politics of Policing", analyzes gun politics as a politics of policing. In addition to my intellectual curiosity, her dissertation is driven by my commitment to public sociology. By focusing on the relatively understudied topics of conservative politics and culture, she hopes to broaden the public impact of sociological thought.

Abigail Andrews is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego. She studies gender and the political economy of Mexico-U.S. migration and her doctoral dissertation examines how local political institutions on both sending and receiving sides of immigrant communities shape migration patterns, political activism, and gender relations. The research methods for this four-sited ethnographic project include participant observation, surveys, and 105 in-depth interviews with two pueblos in Oaxaca, Mexico and their destinations in Los Angeles and Vista, California.

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The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.