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Chafetz, J.S. (2006). The Varieties of Gender Theory in Sociology. In: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36218-5_1
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