Sarah Fenstermaker is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of The Gender Factory: TheApportionment of Work in America. Candace West is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Section I Foreword -Dorothy E. Smith Introduction -Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West Section II - Theoretical Formulation, Criticism, and Response [...] Gender Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman 2.Gender Inequality: New Conceptual Terrain Sarah Fenstermaker, Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman [...], Inequality and the Accomplishment of Gender: An Ethnomethodological View Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker [...] Difference Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker 5.Gender & Society Symposium on Doing Difference -Patricia Hill Collins, Lionel A. Maldonado, Dana Y. Takagi, Berrie Thorne, Lynn Weber, Howard Winant Reply - (Re)doing Difference - Candace West & Sarah Fenstermaker Section III: Empirical Applications 6.Conclusion to The Gender Factor - Sarah Fenstermaker 7.Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender - Candace West & Diana Dull 8.Accountability in action: The Accomplishment of Gender, Race, and Class in a Meeting of the University of California Board of Regents - Cadance West & Sarah Fenstermaker [...] Gender Differently: Institutional Change in Second Parent Adoptions - Susan Dalton & Sarah Fenstermaker Section IV - Theoretical Elaborations 10.Performance and Accomplishment: Reconciling Feminist Conceptions of Gender -Molly Moloney & Sarah Fenstermaker [...] Difference Revisited: Power, Resistance, and the (Mis)reading of Feminist Theory - Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West Conclusion 12.Central Problematics: An Agenda For Feminist Sociology -Sarah Fenstermaker & Candace West References