Handbook of gender and women's studies / edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans, and Judith Lorber.

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

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.