Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies
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Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies

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Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies

About this book

This breathtakingly broad, interdisciplinary reader demonstrates how widely feminist thinking has spread, how deeply it has shaken settled assumptions in the disciplines and how much new light it throws on contemporary controversies.
- Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"A timely intervention and highly engaged, thoughtful and scholarly analysis of the state of gender and women?s studies in the West by three eminent feminist scholars... Highly cognisant of the central issues that have fractured, blocked and enhanced western feminism."
- Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths

"The comprehensiveness and the interdisciplinary range of themes are impressive, and they make the Handbook into a wonderful tool for teachers and students of women?s and gender studies."
- Nina Lykke, Linkoeping University

Gender and women?s studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences - the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum of debate.

The Handbook of Gender and Women?s Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the ?cultural turn? and globalization. The authors review current research and offer critical analyses of women?s and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics.

Edited by three leading academics from Europe and the United States, and with 25 chapters written by scholars based throughout the world, the Handbook situates the most important debates in the field within a uniquely international and interdisciplinary context. The Handbook is a useful introduction to gender theory and an exciting starting-point for fresh debates.

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Yes, you can access Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans, Judith Lorber, Kathy Davis,Mary Evans,Judith Lorber in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780761943907
eBook ISBN
9781446206843
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Current state of women's studies, gender studies, and studies of men
  7. Chapter 1 - The Life and Times of Academic Feminism
  8. Chapter 2 - The Shadow and the Substance: The Sex/Gender Debate
  9. Chapter 3 - Changing Studies on Men and Masculinities
  10. Part II: Cultural representations and critiques
  11. Chapter 4 - Gendered Cultures
  12. Chapter 5 - The Social Foundations of the Sacred: Feminists and the Politics of REligion
  13. Chapter 6 - The Crisis in Masculinity
  14. Part III: Knowledge
  15. Chapter 7 - Clearing Ground and Making Connections: Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism
  16. Chapter 8 - Women Knowing/Knowing Women: Critical-Creative Interventions in the Politics of Knowledge
  17. Chapter 9 - Gender, Change, and Education
  18. Part IV: Globalization and the state
  19. Chapter 10 - Gender in a Global World
  20. Chapter 11 - Insiders and Outsiders: Within and Beyond the Gendered Nation
  21. Chapter 12 - Towards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender, and War
  22. Chapter 13 - Mothers and Muslims, Sisters and Sojourners: The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship
  23. Part V: Work and Family
  24. Chapter 14 - Gender and Work
  25. Chapter 15 - Gender, Care, and the Welfare State
  26. Chapter 16 - Blending into Equality: Family Diversity and Gender Convergence
  27. Chapter VI: Intimate relationships and sexualities
  28. Chapter 17 - Thinking Straight, Acting Bent: Heteronormativity and Homosexuality
  29. Chapter 18 - Foreground Friendship: Feminist Pasts. Feminist Futures
  30. Chapter 19 - Transgendering: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender
  31. Part VII: Embodiment in a technological world
  32. Chapter 20 - Gendered Bodies: Between Conformity and Autonomy
  33. Chapter 21 - The Natural World and the Nature of Gender
  34. Chapter 22 - From Science and Technology to Feminist Technoscience
  35. Part VIII: Making change
  36. Chapter 23 - Moral Perspectives: Gender, Ethics, and Political Theory
  37. Chapter 24 - Having It All: Feminist Fractured Foundationalism
  38. Chapter 25 - From Autonomy to Solidarities: Transnational Feminist Political Strategies
  39. Chapter 26 - Utopian Visions
  40. Index