Kathy Davis & Mary S Evans 
Handbook of Gender and Women′s Studies [PDF ebook] 

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Di Palma 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 Mc Kenna 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

Über den Autor

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.