ABSTRACT
Gender, ethnicity, and other identity issues affect all theoretical orientations in significant ways. They are, however, of a somewhat different order than other theories we have previously considered. Each of these issues frequently becomes enfolded and incorporated into various other theories. For we cannot eliminate issues of gender, for example, when we undertake a structuralist study or a postmodernist study. Therefore, the issues in this chapter have a kind of overarching influence on the theoretical orientations in this book, although they are in some cases and by some scholars identified as “theories.”
