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Abstract

The paper investigates the impact of feminism on British sociology over the last 60 years. It focuses on changes in the intellectual content of the discipline, including epistemology, methodology, theory, concepts and the fields of economy, polity, violence and civil society. It situates these changes in the context of changes in gendered organisation of sociology, the rise of women's/gender studies, the ecology of social sciences and societal changes, especially the transformation of the gender regime from domestic to public and the neoliberal turn. It concludes that feminism has had a major impact on sociology, but that the process through which this has taken place is highly mediated through organisational, disciplinary and social processes.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Walby, S. (2011). The impact of feminism on sociology. Sociological Research Online, 16(3), pp. 1-10. Copyright © SAGE. doi: 10.5153/sro.2373
Publisher Keywords:	feminism, sociology, BSA, impact
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > Sociology & Criminology
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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