Feminist Frontiers

ISBN 10: 1538108100 / ISBN 13: 9781538108109

Edité par Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

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Cover is worn. Pages are sunned. Item has water damage. Binding is split. Paperback. 10th Edition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Feminist Frontiers
• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1538108100
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781538108109
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: acceptable

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Synopsis

Feminist Frontiers is intended for use in courses on women's studies, gender studies, feminist studies, or the sociology of gender. It offers a general framework for analyzing women, society, and culture; its classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics cut across disciplinary and generational lines, presenting the full diversity of women's lives and exploring commonalities and interconnected differences. New selections in the tenth edition emphasize the diversity of women's experiences and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability.

New to This Edition:
Thirty-five new selections emphasize the diversity of women's experiences and promote understanding of how gender inequality intersects with other systems of oppression, including race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability Highlights contemporary issues including "gender of Trumpism," climate change, mass shootings, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement to address issues students face on a daily basisInclusion of blogs and online writings emphasizes the impact of social media on society including Facebook, Twitter, and online gaming

À propos des auteurs

Verta Taylor is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies and Edward A. Dickson Emerita Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nancy E. Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College. She has taught statistics and research methods for over 30 years, and also teaches classes on gender, sexuality, and social movements. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2009), Feminist Generations (Temple, 1995), and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is co-editor of Feminist Frontiers (10th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, with Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp).

Leila J. Rupp of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s and Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret;author of Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression; coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism and The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, and author of nearly 150 articles, chapters, and reviews.Professor Taylor received the American Sociological Association's 2011 Jessie Bernard Award for lifetime contributions to the study of gender, and in 2008 she received the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award for her scholarship on social movements and the Simon and Gagnon Award for her career of scholarship on the study of sexualities. She has also been awarded Sociologists for Women in Society's Mentoring and Feminist Lecturer Awards. Nancy Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College, where she teaches classes on gender, sexuality, social movements, and research methods. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State, Feminist Generations, and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is coauthor of Statistics for Social Understanding. Leila J. Rupp is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She coedited Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History,which won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014. She is the author of Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement, and Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945, and coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections.