Sociology of Women and Society

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Sociology has allowed people to see beyond commonsensical views and discusses roles women have had throughout different generations. For decades, women were seen as the weaker sex and often as subordinates to men in all aspects of society such as family life and employment. Over the years, sociology has helped us view gender as more than women being women and men being men. It has allowed insight that masculinity does not always refer to men and femininity does not always refer to women as well as the characteristics that most people associated them with. Common-sense viewpoints are not as simple and narrowly focused as before. Genders migrate their characteristics into each other and faceless judgement. Some individuals use their gender and sexuality to express themselves and feminism has had a significant impact in this matter, allowing and supporting not only women fighting for their rights but men wanting to transition and migrate into womanhood as well. In the workplace there is still a tremendous gap in pay across most cultures, although this has improved. Professionally, there is still segregation, but we are able to see a change, such as the increase of women in the police force in the past decade. Subjects such as sexuality and queer theory could be studied and analysed for further research on how societies can change through time and place. This comprehensive book aimed to provide a sociological, biographically organised portrait of women written from a feminist perspective. The book will be an important study guide for graduate students in sociology and gender studies.

Gaurav Adajania is a sociologist along with visiting professor for various South Asian universities. He has obtained his PhD in Sociology from the APS. Adajania's research interests include gender inequality, women's empowerment, and women's rights. His work has been published in leading academic journals, and he has also written for newspapers and magazines. His extensive research experience and expertise enable him to unravel the intricate complexities of gender dynamics, revealing the sociocultural, economic, and political forces at play. Adajania is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on the status of women. In addition to his academic work, Adajania is also involved in several social justice organizations. He is a member of the National Commission for Women and the National Council for Women's Empowerment. Adajania is also a founding member of the Women's Studies Association of India.

Sociology has allowed people to see beyond commonsensical views and discusses roles women have had throughout different generations. For decades, women were seen as the weaker sex and often as subordinates to men in all aspects of society such as family life and employment. For decades, psychoanalysis had seen women as inferior and claimed that women could only be truly referred to as such when performing the roles of a wife and/or a mother (Mitchell, 1974). Scientists such as Freud, studied, correlated, and backed them up, demonstrating justification for social stratification and the bourgeois. Sociologist Juliet Mitchell revolutionised this theory with the release of 'Psychoanalysis and Feminism'(1974). In this work, Mitchell studied how Freud's work partially shaped feminism. Even though Freud was seen as the greatest enemy to this movement, Mitchell argued that ignoring these factors would be fatal, as feminism would not have evolved as much and women would not have fought as mercilessly if there was not something that had proved opposite to what they were fighting for.

Women in the 19th century actively campaigned around several fields such as education, health and working conditions. They wanted women's rights to be changed and wanted to create equality between the sexes. This was an impactful development in history for women. By the end of the 19th century, feminism was recognised as a group of individuals that would advocate for women's rights. Due to the diversity of feminism, there was no specific profile for an individual that would make them a feminist as long as they believed in equality. Feminism advocated that past oppressive arrangements could be addressed, and sex role expectations could be altered as well as gender socialisation. There are various forms of feminism; political, methodological and philosophical. Each represents different areas of beliefs in the subject. Political feminism is often described in waves, set time periods in which women fought for particular rights such as legal rights (1st wave), social equality (2nd wave), and individualist recognition (3rd wave).

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