This second edition of the best selling An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives confirms the centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise and introduces students and the general reader to the wide range of feminist contributions to key areas of sociological concern. This new edition includes a new afterword on post-modern feminism, men's studies and input of changes in Europe. Other features of the new edition include: the feminist critique of malestream sociology, and the way forward feminist theory and sociology women and stratification education women and the life course the family and the household women, health, and caring women's work women, crime and deviance women and politics.