Handbook of gender and women's studies

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Handbook of gender and women's studies

edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber

Sage, 2006

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Gender and women's studies

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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Introduction - Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber PART ONE: CURRENT STATE OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES AND STUDIES OF MEN The Life and Times of Academic Feminism - Clare Hemmings The Shadow and the Substance - Wendy Cealey Harrison The Sex/Gender Debate Changing Studies on Men and Masculinities - Jeff Hearn and Michael Kimmel PART TWO: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CRITIQUES Gendered Cultures - Gabriele Griffin The Social Foundations of the Sacred - Bronwyn Winter Feminists and the Politics of Religion The Crisis in Masculinity - David Morgan PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE Clearing Ground and Making Connections - Carolyn DiPalma and Kathy Ferguson Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism Critical Interventions in Feminist Epistemology - Lorraine Code Gender, Change and Education - Diana Leonard PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATE Gender in a Global World - Miri Song Insiders and Outsiders - Barbara Einhorn Within and Beyond the Gendered Nation Towards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender and War - Dubravka Zarkov Mothers and Muslims, Sisters and Soujourners - Baukje Prins The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship PART FIVE: WORK AND FAMILY Working with Gender - Rosemary Crompton Gender, Care and the Welfare State - Clare Ungerson Coming Together Through Change - Molly Monahan Lang and Barbara Risman Family Diversity and Gender Convergence PART SIX: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITIES Thinking Straight, Acting Bent - Chrys Ingraham Heteronormativity and Homosexuality Foregrounding Friendship - Sasha Roseneil Feminist Pasts, Feminist Futures Transgendering - Wendy McKenna and Suzanne Kessler Blurring the Boundaries of Gender PART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD Gendered Bodies - Sharyn Roach Anleu Between Conformity and Autonomy The Natural World and the Nature of Gender - Irmgard Schultz Gendered Science and Feminist Critiques of Technology - Jutta Weber PART EIGHT: MAKING CHANGE Moral Perspectives - Joan Tronto Gender, Ethics and Political Theory Having It All - Sue Wise and Liz Stanley Feminist Fractured Foundationalism From Autonomy to Solidarities - Manisha Desai Transnational Feminist Political Strategies Utopian Visions - Judith Lorber A World Without Gender? Getting Real - Mary Evans Contextualising Gender Feminist Politics of Location - Kathy Davis

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