Description
| Product ID: | 9780761943907 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies |
| Authors: | Author: Judith Lorber, Mary S Evans, Kathy Davis |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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."
"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." 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. |
| Imprint Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-04-27 |
