Women's studies : a reader

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Women's studies : a reader

edited by Stevi Jackson ... [et al.]

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780745011875

Description

This volume provides students with a selection of readings, covering a range of issues in women's studies which are representative of the diversity of current feminist thinking. Designed as a text for classroom use, the reader is divided into 15 sections, reflecting primary topic areas within women's studies. Introductions to each section provide an overview of the main issues and debates. Commentaries on each extract locate the work of individual authors within wider deabtes.

Table of Contents

  • Feminist social theory
  • women's minds - psychological and psychoanalytic theory
  • cross-cultural perspectives on women's lives
  • historical perspectives on women's lives
  • women, education and work
  • marriage and motherhood
  • sexuality
  • women and the law
  • women and deviance
  • public/private women - politics and the state
  • science, medicine and reproductive technology
  • language and gender
  • feminist literary criticism
  • representations of women in the media.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780745011882

Description

This Reader provides students with a comprehensive selection of readings covering a range of key issues in women's studies which are representative of the diversity of current feminist thinking. Designed as a text for classroom use, the Reader is divided into 15 sections reflecting primary topic areas within women's studies.

Table of Contents

  • Feminist social theory
  • women's minds - psychological and psychoanalytic theory
  • cross-cultural perspectives on women's lives
  • historical perspectives on women's lives
  • women, education and work
  • marriage and motherhood
  • sexuality
  • women and the law
  • women and deviance
  • public/private women - politics and the state
  • science, medicine and reproductive technology
  • language and gender
  • feminist literary criticism
  • representations of women in the media.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA20737224
  • ISBN
    • 074501187X
    • 0745011888
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 525 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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