Journal issue

Investigating Gender

Sociétés & Représentations
2007/2 No 24


392 pages

Presentation

This issue of Sociétés & Représentations focusing on the uses of gender in social sciences is the fruit of a collective project by seven young women researchers. These women are political scientists, sociologists, and historians and have mobilized around common issues concerning the place of gender in their research. Coming from various disciplines and using different methods and drawing from diverse survey material ranging from epigraphy to ethnographic observation, the works presented here bear testimony to a desire to mobilize gender in the construction and analysis of their objects. This special report also offers the occasion to review the works of those who have made use of this tool in the social sciences. One round table brings together Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Laura Lee Downs, Violaine Sebillotte-Cuchet, and Frédérique Villemur, and another with Judith Butler, Éric Fassin, and Joan Scott. Instead of proposing an alternative approach to gender, this volume shall present the diversity of its modes of empirical appropriation in current social science research.

Table of contents

Presentation

1. Methods

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History of Women, History of Gender. Round Table on the Practices of Women Historians

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The History of the Middle Ages through Gender: First Steps in an Investigation

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The Silence of Practices: Gendered Relationships in the Families of Independent Workers

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Sociological and Social Uses of Gender. Interpretations

2. Socialization

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Supporters and Masculinity: The Case of the Ultras in Auxerre (France)

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The Construction of How Girls Relate to Beauty during Childhood: When Practices Contradict Representations of Beautifying Processes for the Body

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Gender and the Teaching of History: A Case Study in a Hamburg High School

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Gendered Representations and the Sexualization of Circassian Practices in the School Environment

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The Gendered Distribution of the Experience of Love: A Survey in a Suburban Public Housing Project

3. Arts

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Gender of Distinction: How Gender, Class, and Literary Legitimacy (Re)Form Themselves in Public Reading Practices

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From Discourses to Practices: Approaching the Reality of Relationships between the Sexes

Gender and Artistic Professions in the 19th Century

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Mal du Siècle and Mal du Sexe in the First Half of the 19th Century: Gendered Romantic Identities Confronting Reality

4. Politics

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Conservative Statements, Innovative Practices

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When Gender Enters a (Political) Crisis: Biographical Effects of Activism in May 1968

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How to Become a Professional in Politics

Learning Roles at the Ile-de-France Regional Council

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The Making of a Gendered Social Movement: Practices and Discourses of Struggle

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For More on “Gender”. .. Round Table

Readings

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Reading

Miscellaneous Contributions

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The Emergence of Modern Culture in the Image of Contemporary Muslim Algeria (Alger, 1880–1980)

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Radio Contests from the Liberation to the Seventies: Rise and Fall of a Radio Genre


Publication date: 11/01/2007

ISBN 9783760091327