Gender as a category of analysis in emotions studies

While gender has proved to be a very fruitful analytic category for researchers of the past, it has been inadequately considered in current psychological research on emotions. Many researchers deny that gender is a significant variable. Those who do employ gender as an analytic category base their experiments on current stereotypes and (for the most part) a simple, biological view of gender. This paper explores the current state of psychological research on the topic of gender and emotion, and it suggests how that research might benefit from considering the findings of scholars of the past.