For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science.Sarah Fenstermakeris 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 Westis Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.