Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware. She is the author of several books, including Race in Society: The Continuing American Dilemma; On Land and On Sea: Women in the Rosenfeld Collection; Living Art: The Life of Paul R. Jones, African American Art Collector; and Sociology: The Essentials with co-author Howard F. Taylor. She has also edited three best-selling anthologies: Race, Class, and Gender with co-editor Patricia Hill Collins; Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Society: The Changing Landscape with co-editor Elizabeth Higginbotham; and Understanding Socie-ty: Readings in Sociology with co-editors Kim Logio and Howard F. Taylor.

She is the former vice president of the American Sociological Association and past-president of the Eastern Sociological Society. Andersen is a recipient of the Jessie Bernard Award given annually by the American Sociological Association for scholarship widening the horizons of sociology to include women, as well as the Robin M. Williams Lecture Award and the Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society. She also received the 2004 Sociologists for Women (SWS) Feminist Lecturer Award, given annually to someone in the nation whose work benefits women. Andersen serves on the National Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and as a faculty coach for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program. She has won two teaching awards from the University of Delaware and recently received an Honorary Degree from the University of Delaware in recognition of her many contributions to scholarship, teaching, and university service. 

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Studying Women: Why Gender Still Matters

PART II: GENDER, SOCIETY, AND SEX
2. The Social Construction of Gender
3. Gender, Culture, and the Media
4 .Sexuality and Intimate Relationships

PART III: GENDER AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
5. Gender, Work, and the Economy
6. Gender and Families
7. Women, Health, and Reproduction
8. Women and Religion
9. Women, Crime, and Violence
10. Gender, Education, and Science
11. Women, Power, and Politics

PART IV: GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE: FRAMEWORKS OF FEMINISM
12. Liberal Feminism and Social Reform
13. Contemporary Frameworks in Feminist Theory

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