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Gender and Families: Feminist Perspectives and Family Research
Author(s) -
Fox Greer Litton,
Murry Velma McBride
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.01160.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , gender studies , sociology , feminism , sensibility , feminist philosophy , feminist theory , sociology of the family , political science , law
This review provides a selective overview of scholarship on gender and families over the past decade. First, we discuss four characteristics of feminist perspectives to theoretical and methodological issues in social science. Then we describe briefly how feminist sensibility has been reflected in family scholarship over the past decade. We conclude with brief observations on the disjuncture between academic work on gender and the feminist backlash apparent in the contemporary culture.