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Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women's studies and publishes fewer than five percent of all papers submitted to it. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. View full journal description

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Gender as a Social Structure

Professor Barbara Risman explains the concept of gender as a social structure. She discusses how to examine gender from individual, interactional, institutional, and intersectional perspectives. Risman also describes particular gender scripts and schemas that men and women live with.

Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women

Dr. Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University, Canada

Structural Gendered Racism Revealed in Pandemic Times: Intersectional Approaches to Understanding Race and Gender Health Inequities in COVID-19

Dr. Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, University of California, Merced, USA and Dr. Tashelle Wright, University of California, Merced, USA

Black Mothers and Vaccine Refusal: Gendered Racism, Healthcare, and the State

Dr. Courtney Thorton, University of Colorado Denver, USA and Dr. Jennifer A. Reich, University of Colorado Denver, USA

“Just Let it Pass by and it Will Fall on Some Woman”: Invisible Work in the Labor Market

Dr. Amit Kaplan, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel

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Special Issue
Global Fault Lines: Gender, Religion, and Nationalism
Completed manuscripts due April 11, 2026

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