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- Title
Women's Sociological Research and Writing in the AJS in the Pre-World War II Era.
- Authors
Grant, Linda; Stalp, Marybeth C.; Ward, Kathryn B.
- Abstract
Recent revisionist scholarship on the history of sociology suggests that women scholars in the pre-World War II era made distinctive contributions to the development of the field of sociology. Most research, however, has focused on women prominent in their era, whose works might or might not be typical of all women who published during the same periods. Furthermore, few studies have made explicit comparisons between works by women and by men writing in this same era, so it has been difficult to sort out gender effects from historical era effects. This study explores writings by women and men in the first volumes of the American Journal of Sociology, from 1895 through 1940. As the oldest continuously published sociology journal in the U.S., AJS played a central role in the development of American sociology. We find that women authors were present in AJS from the earliest days, though their share of authorships never was large, and fluctuated year by year. Women's work was distinctively different from that of men, with more women than men writing empirical, evidence-based articles, focusing on women, children, immigrants, the poor, and other have-not groups, and advocating for social reform. Writings of rank-and-file and prominent women sociologists were similar in methods, content, and form, and their distinctive contributions to sociology paralleled many of the concerns of feminist sociologists today.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGICAL research; SOCIAL science research; WOMEN sociologists; SOCIOLOGY; FEMINISTS
- Publication
American Sociologist, 2002, Vol 33, Issue 3, p69
- ISSN
0003-1232
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12108-002-1012-4