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Gender & Society is abstracted and indexed in over 70 databases including Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. [2] According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.36, ranking it 2nd out of 42 journals in the category "Women's Studies" and 20th out of 146 journals in the category "Sociology."
Although SWS was created to redress the plight of women sociologists, SWS has become an organization that also focuses on improving the social position of women in society through feminist sociological research and writing. SWS holds annual meetings and publishes the academic journal Gender & Society.
In the sociology of gender, the process whereby an individual learns and acquires a gender role in society is termed gender socialization. [9] [10] [11] Gender roles are culturally specific, and while most cultures distinguish only two (boy/man and girl/woman), others recognize more.
In this monograph, Risman introduces a theoretical framework that conceptualizes gender as a social structure, comprising three distinct but interlocking levels – individual, interactional, and institutional. Risman argues that it is the recursive relationship between all three levels that constructs and perpetuates gender inequalities in ...
In traditional gender constructs, one is either a man or woman, but in postgenderism one is neither a man nor woman nor any other assumed gender role—thus an individual in society is simply an agent of humanity who is to be defined (if at all) by one's actions. [1]
More specifically, in Navajo society, the third gender is known as nadle. [39] Nadle is a gender that does tasks commonly for both men and women, but also dresses according to whatever task they are doing at the moment. [39] The muxe of southern Mexico are biological males who identify as neither male nor female.
Acker describes the need to think about race, class, and gender not as separate entities but as "intersecting systems of oppression". [7] Acker was professor of sociology at the University of Oregon until her retirement in 1993. [8] In 1973, Acker founded the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She was also ...
In both instances, these gender categories challenged Western preconceptions and demonstrated the flexibility of gender roles in Igbo society. The recognition of male daughters and the acceptance of female husbands reflected the nuanced understanding of gender and identity within the cultural and spiritual context of pre-colonial Igbo communities.