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Durkheim and Women is the first book-length work to present a feminist analysis of the theoretical writings of Emile Durkheim. Through a close textual reading of Durkheim's widely scattered statements about women, Jennifer M. Lehmann reconstructs a coherent Durkheimian theory of women. She places Durkheim squarely in the swirling modernist controversies of his time and the equally bedeviling postmodernist controversies of ours.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Chapter 1 Durkheim's Milieu(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Descriptions of Women(p. 32)
• Chapter 3 Prescriptions for Women(p. 51)
• Chapter 4 Contradictions: the Problem of Women(p. 74)
• Chapter 5 Theories of Race, Class, and Sex(p. 94)
• Chapter 6 the Contemporary Milieu(p. 119)
• Conclusion(p. 134)
• Notes(p. 139)
• References(p. 157)
• Index(p. 165)

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A feminist critique of one of sociology's "founding fathers" was almost inevitable, but Lehmann's approach is far from predictable and shows Durkheim to be both a brilliant analyzer and a partial victim of his cultural milieu. The first and last chapters of the work respectively place Durkheim squarely in the swirling modernist controversies of his time and the equally bedeviling postmodernist controversies of ours. Lehmann's last chapter is particularly provocative; she combines an impassioned and trenchant indictment of the oppressive links between late capitalism and neoliberalism with an argument to incorporate Durkheim's valuable legacy in a social theoretical stance she names "post-poststructuralism" or "critical structuralism." The intervening chapters carefully trace and critically dissect the ambiguous and contradiction-riddled place of women in the "master's" monumental oeuvre. The work is thoroughly researched and well documented, and it should do much to renew interest in Durkheim as a cogent if imperfect observer of the human condition. Upper-division undergraduates and above. W. P. Nye; Hollins College

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Jennifer M. Lehmann is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska and editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory .