
Women's Studies: The Basics
The Basics
Bonnie G. Smith(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 25. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-138-49593-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-49593-7 (9781138495937)
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Bonnie G. Smith is the author, editor, or co-author of more than twenty books and many essays in women's and gender history, European and world history, and historiography. As Board of Governors Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, she has taught women's studies courses, including the comparative history of feminism.
Content
1. The Invention of Women's Studies 2. The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity 3. Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender 4. Global Agendas 5. Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace 6. Women's Studies and the Question of Gender 7. Feminist Theories and Methods 8. Embodiment, Sexuality, Identity 9. Classrooms, Controversies, and Citizenship 10. The Future of Women's Studies in Our Information Age