Fifty key concepts in gender studies

✍ Scribed by Dr Jane Pilcher, Dr Imelda Whelehan

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Series: SAGE key concepts
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lively and impressive. I can easily imagine this text being used by both gender and women's studies undergraduates and postgraduates. In particular it will enable students to get a sense of how older and more contemporary theoretical movements and debates relate to one another' - <b> Lisa Adkins, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester</p> <p> </p> <p>Part of a newKey Concepts' series published by SAGE, Key Concepts in Gender Studies offers 1,500 word expositions of 50 topics central to the field.

Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan's introduction gives an account of gender studies - what it is and how it originated. Their selection of topics is authoritative and the 50 entries reflect the complex, multi-faceted nature of the field in an accessible dictionary format.

Each of the 50 key concepts:

В· begins with a concise definition

В· includes illustrations of how the concept has been applied within the field

В· offers examples which allow a critical re-evaluation of the concept

В· is cross-referenced with the other key concepts

В· makes further reading suggestions.

The level of detail offered encourages understanding of gender studies without sacrificing depth detail and critical evaluation essential to convey the complexity of the issues dealt with. As such, the book appeals both to undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of social science disciplines.

50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies gives testimony to the health of gender studies and related disciplines and looks forward to an ever-shifting dynamic of debates and ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

contents......Page 6
acknowledgements......Page 8
introduction......Page 10
androcentrism......Page 18
backlash......Page 20
body......Page 23
citizenship......Page 27
class......Page 30
consciousness raising......Page 34
cyborg......Page 37
dichotomy......Page 41
difference......Page 44
domestic division of labour......Page 47
double standard......Page 51
equality......Page 54
essentialism......Page 58
the family......Page 60
feminisms......Page 65
first wave feminism......Page 69
gender......Page 73
gendered......Page 76
gender order......Page 78
gender segregation......Page 81
heterosexism......Page 85
identity politics/the politics of identity......Page 89
ideology......Page 92
lesbian continuum......Page 96
masculinity/masculinities......Page 99
men’s movements/men’s studies......Page 102
(the) Other......Page 107
patriarchy......Page 110
pornography......Page 113
post-colonial theory......Page 118
post-feminism......Page 122
postmodernism......Page 126
post-structuralism......Page 129
power......Page 132
psychoanalytical feminism......Page 137
public/private......Page 141
queer theory......Page 145
race/ethnicity......Page 149
representation......Page 152
reproductive technologies......Page 157
second wave feminism......Page 161
separatism......Page 164
sexual contract......Page 168
sexuality......Page 172
socialisation......Page 177
standpoint......Page 180
stereotype......Page 183
third wave feminism......Page 186
violence......Page 189
women’s studies......Page 193
bibliography......Page 197