Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women--past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development and its relevance to our own times. A new chapter on militarization and violence provides fresh insight into trends in the contemporary world and adds to curricular significance. Reflecting the diversity of the field, core themes include: The interdisciplinary nature of women's studies; Core feminist theories and the feminist agenda; Issues of intersectionality: women, race, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion; Violence, militarization, security, and peace; women, sexuality, and the body. Women's Studies: The Basics provides an informed foundation for those new to the subject and is especially meant to guide undergraduates and postgraduates concentrating in women's studies and gender studies. Those in related disciplines will find in it a valuable overview of and background to women-centered issues and concerns, including global ones. The work also provides an updated list of suggested reading to help in further study, classroom presentations, and written exercises

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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Series Page 3
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Chapter 1: The Inventi on of Women’s Studies 8
Women’s Studies: What Is It? 9
Feminist Roots of Women’s Studies: A Brief Look Back 13
Women’s Studies and the University 15
Women’s Studies Grows from Knowledge Outside the Academy 16
Changing the Classroom as Part of Changing the University—First Steps 17
What Is a Woman? And Other Early Questions 19
Nature Versus Culture 22
Women’s Studies Around the World Broadens the Questioning 24
Conclusion: Its Meaning Is Change 26
Note 26
Sugested Reading 27
Chapter 2: The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity 28
From Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity 29
Women’s Studies’ Early Critical Edge 30
Women’s Studies New Critique of Reason 34
Androgyny 39
Women’s Studies and the “L” Word 40
Margins and Centers 41
Mad Women in the Attic 43
Conclusion 44
Suggested Reading 45
Chapter 3: Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender 48
Contests over Diference 50
Race and the Birth of Intersectionality 54
Ethnicity and Intersectionality 57
Class and Intersectionality 59
Pluralism and Its Critics 61
Equality Versus Diference 62
Conclusion 64
Notes 65
Suggested Reading 66
Chapter 4: Global Agendas 68
The Legacy of Empire and Post-Colonialism 70
The Post-Colonial Perspective 72
Women in the Global Economy, Past and Present 73
Women and Neo-liberalism 74
Women’s Migration in a Global Age 76
Women and Poverty 78
Development and Women’s Poverty 79
Orientalism and Its Chalenges 81
Women’s Global Subjectivity 83
Global Feminist Activism and Modernity 84
Conclusion 87
Notes 87
Suggested Reading 88
Chapter 5: Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace 90
Securitization and Women’s Activism 99
Confronting Violence 101
Conclusion 104
Note 105
Suggested Reading 105
Chapter 6: Women’s Studies and the Question of Gender 108
Current Definitions of Gender 110
Gender, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism 113
Joan Scot: Gender: A Useful Category 115
Gender Stirs up the University 117
Sex versus Gender 120
Trans People and the Unwinding of Gender 122
Conclusion 123
Sugested Reading 124
Chapter 7: Feminist Theories and Methods 126
Why Theory? 128
From Marxism to Political Economy 129
Psychoanalysis 132
Race Theories 134
Post-Modernism and Women 136
Post-Colonial Theory 138
Methods, Epistemology, and Ethics in Women’s Studies 140
Conclusion 142
Note 143
Suggested Reading 143
Chapter 8: Embodiment, Sexuality, Identity 144
Gender and Body Politics 146
The Body Politics of Disability 149
Debating, Defining, and Designing Embodiment 152
Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Lesbian Experience, and Trans Life 154
Nature Speaks about Sex 156
Queer Acts Chalenge All Sexual Identities 158
Conclusion 160
Notes 161
Sugested Reading 161
Chapter 9: Classrooms, Controversies, and Citizenship 164
Women and Citizenship 166
A Chily Climate in the Clasrom 168
Consciousness-Raising 170
Contentious Issues in the Clasroom 173
Conclusion 178
Suggested Reading 179
Chapter 10: The Future of Women’s Studies in our Information Age 180
Why Women’s Studies Should End 181
Post-Feminism 182
Has the World Really Changed All that Much? 186
Burning Issues that Remain 187
Flows, Flux, and Nomads 189
Our Virtual Selves and the Internet Solution 191
We Are Cyborgs: Beyond the Human-Centered World: The Post-Human 192
Our Place in the Animal Kingdom 193
Conclusion 194
Notes 195
Suggested Reading 195
Index 198

2021-04-20