TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis, Kathy,
AU  - Evans, Mary,
AU  - Lorber, Judith.
TI  - Handbook of gender and women's studies
SN  - 0761943900 (hardcover)
AV  - R HQ 1180 .H191 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women's studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index;   4. Gendered cultures;   Feminist politics of location;  10. Gender in a global world;  11. Insiders and outsiders : within and beyond the gendered nation;  12.  Towards a new theorizing of women, gender, and war;  13. Mothers and Muslims, sisters and sojourners : the contested boundaries of feminist citizenship;  14. Gender and work;  15. Gender, care, and the welfare state;  16. Blending into equality : family diversity and gender convergence;  17. Thinking straight, acting bent : heteronormativity and homosexuality;  18.  Foregrounding friendship : feminist pasts, feminist futures;  19. Transgendering : blurring the boundaries of gender;  2 The shadow and the substance : the sex/gender debate;  20. Gendered bodies : between conformity and autonomy;  21. The natural world and the nature of gender;  22.  From science and technology to feminist technoscience;  23.  Moral perspectives : gender, ethics, and political theory;  24. Having it all : feminist fractured foundationalism;  25. From autonomy to solidarities : transnational feminist political strategies Utopian visions : a world without gender? 26. Getting real : contextualizing gender;  3 Changing studies on men and masculinities;  5. The social foundations of the sacred : feminists and the politics of religion;  6. The crisis in masculinity;  7. Clearing ground and making connections : modernism, postmodernism, feminism;  8. Women knowing/knowing women : critical-creative interventions in the politics of knowledge;  9. Gender, change, and education; 1 The life and times of academic feminism
N2  - Gender and women's studies is one of the most challenging fields within the social sciences̮the dynamics of gender relations and the social and cultural implications of gender constructions offer a lively forum for 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 gender and women's studies in the workplace, 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, this handbook situates the most important debates in the field within a uniquely international and interdisciplinary context. It is both a useful introduction to gender theory and an exciting starting point for fresh debates
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