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Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies Kathy Davis

Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies By Kathy Davis

Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies by Kathy Davis

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A review of the developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the 'cultural turn' and globalization. It reviews research and offers critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics.

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Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies by Kathy Davis

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.

Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies Reviews

The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies is an exceptional academic text for a broad examination of gender. The well-organized, eight-section volume focuses on gender through a wide range of academic lenses. Its twenty-six chapters offer diverse theoretical, geographical, historical, and academic perspectives, yet display a common desire to understand the human division of male and female. -- Erin Gratz * The University of Wisconsin System *
This impressive collection of articles about the state of gender and women's studies encompasses a range of intellectual perspectives and suggest new directions for feminist theory, analysis, and research in the 21st century. These challenging essays engage scholars in a lively debate that calls for recognition of the revolutionary impact of feminist thought on the academy, with particular emphasis on its disruption of traditional ways to knowing, analyzing, and understanding. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
-- A.K. Frisken * CHOICE *

About Kathy Davis

Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988). CONTRIBUTORS Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra Gon Buurman Amsterdam Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan Joanne Finkelstein Monash University Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent Linda McKie University of Aberdeen Monica Rudberg University of Oslo Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen Mary Evans is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is the editor of both editions of The Woman Question (Fontana, 1982 and Sage, 1994) and co-editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Lorber was actively involved in Sociologists for Women in Society from the early 1970's. She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, where she was the first Coordinator of the Women's Studies Certificate Program in 1988-1991. She was Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender Section in 1992-93 and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.

Table of Contents

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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NPB9780761943907
9780761943907
0761943900
Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies by Kathy Davis
Kathy Davis
New
Hardback
SAGE Publications Inc
2006-04-27
512
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