Women's Studies: Essential Readings - Couverture souple

Jackson, Stevi; Atkinson, Karen; Beddoe, Deirdre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814742157 ISBN 13 : 9780814742150

Editeur : New York University Press, 1993

Synopsis

A comprehensive selection of over 140 writings on women's studies, representing a diverse set of current feminist thinkers

Women's Studies: Essential Readings provides a wide range of readers with an entirely comprehensive selection of ever 140 readings on women's studies, representing the entire diversity of current feminist thinking. The book is a divided into fourteen sections that reflect primary topics within women's studies, covering theory and perspectives, including: feminist social theory; psychological and psychoanalytic theory; cross-cultural perspectives and historical perspectives, as well as themes such as: education and work; marriage and motherhood; sexuality; the law; crime and deviance; politics and the state; science, medicine and reproductive technology; language and gender; feminist literary criticism; and the media tool
Features: Introductions to each section provide an overview of the main issues and debates. Commentaries on each extract locate the work of individual authors within wider debates and identify the perspective from which they are writing. Each section contains a guide to further reading.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stevi Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814742157
• ISBN 13: 9780814742150
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 525
• Éditeur: Jackson Stevi
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