Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today

Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail.

The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckonings covers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory.

Gender Reckonings combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fields, and world regions. The editors and contributors are leading social scientists from six continents, and the book gives vivid accounts of the changing politics of gender in different communities.

Rich in empirical detail and novel thinking, Gender Reckonings is a lasting resource for students, researchers, activists, policymakers, and everyone concerned with gender justice.

James W. Messerschmidt (Editor)
James W. Messerschmidt is Professor
of Sociology and Womens and Gender Studies at the University of Southern
Maine. His research has covered such diverse areas as gender and
crime/violence, genderqueers, intersectionality, and global political
masculinities. Messerschmidt is the author of a number of books, including Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence:
The Struggle for Recognition and, most recently, Masculinities in the Making: From the Local to the Global.

James W. Messerschmidt is Professor of Sociology and Womens and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. His research has covered such diverse areas as gender and crime/violence, genderqueers, intersectionality, and global political masculinities. Messerschmidt is the author of a number of books, including Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence: The Struggle for Recognition and, most recently, Masculinities in the Making: From the Local to the Global.

Michael A. Messner (Editor)
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, most recentlyUnconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement.

Raewyn Connell (Editor)
Raewyn Connell is a sociologist, now Professor Emerita at University of Sydney and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Her books include Southern Theory and Gender: In World Perspective. She has worked for labor, peace, and womens movements, and for democracy in education.

Patricia Yancey Martin (Editor)
Patricia Yancey Martin, Emerita Professor of Sociology at Florida
State University, Tallahassee, specializes in gender and organizations.
She has published on gender as practice, gender as social institution,
mobilizing masculinity, feminist bureaucracies, and fraternities and athletics
in relation to rape on college campuses. Her books include Handbook of
Gender, Work and Organization, Rape Work: Victims, Gender& Emotions
in Organizations& Community, and Feminist Organizations: Harvest of
the New Womens Movement.

Patricia Yancey Martin, Emerita Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, Tallahassee, specializes in gender and organizations. She has published on gender as practice, gender as social institution, mobilizing masculinity, feminist bureaucracies, and fraternities and athletics in relation to rape on college campuses. Her books include Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, Rape Work: Victims, Gender& Emotions in Organizations& Community, and Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Womens Movement.