For the past two decades, the work of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West has revolutionized our understanding of gender and the notion of difference, and established them as the authoritative sxholars in the fied. Doing Gender, Doing Difference collects their foundational work for the first time, along with new essays that expand and extend this scholarship.The volume contains a foreword by Dorothy E. Smith, and also includes contributions from important scholars such as Howard Winant, Dana Takagi, Lynn Weber, and other s commenting   on the significance of this body of work.

Sarah Fenstermake is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Gender Factory: The Apportionment of Work in America, and the co-editor of Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology.

Candace West is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Routine Complications: Troubles with Talk between Doctors and Patients.

Section 1 Theoretical Formulation, Criticism, and Response
Section 2 Empirical Applications
Section 3 Theoretical Elaborations