Gender & Society | |
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Abbreviated title (ISO) | Gend. Soc. |
Discipline | Sociology |
Language | English |
Edited by | Dana M. Britton |
Publication details | |
Publisher | SAGE Publications (United Kingdom) |
Publication history | 1987-present |
Frequency | 6 times a year |
Impact factor (2010) |
2.088 |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0891-2432 (print) 1552-3977 (web) |
LCCN | 87641814 |
OCLC number | 14687475 |
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Gender & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Sociology. The journal's editor is Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts). It has been in publication since 1987 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with Sociologists for Women in Society.
Contents |
Gender & Society publishes articles which analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes theoretical and methodological empirical articles including qualitative, quantitative, and comparative-historical methodologies. Gender & Society also contains reviews of books from a range of social science disciplines.
Gender & Society is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 2.088, ranking it 2 out of 35 journals in the category ‘Women’s Studies’.[1] and 4 out of 132 journals in the category ‘Sociology’. [2]