Gender Studies: Terms and Debates

Book Description
This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender studies, cultural studies, and sociology. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analysis and by demonstrating ways of working with these concepts, the authors involve the readers directly in the reading process and leave them feeling empowered. Accessible introductions to the work of major theorists help to give difficult concepts a context and the theory is related back to practice and to related fields such as class and race analysis throughout.



About the Author
Anne Cranny-Francis is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies, Wendy Waring is Director of the Institute for Women's Studies, Pam Stavropolous lectures in the Department of Politics, and Joan Kirkby is Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies, all at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.



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Gender Studies provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis. Major contributions to the gender debates such as Freudian theory, queer theory, masculinity theory and materialist feminism are introduced, and their impact is explored in a variety of contexts including the workplace, the home, the body and visual culture. The authors explore the meaning and history of many common terms used in relation to gender and sexuality, thus revealing the complex sexing and gendering practices in our society. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analysis and by demonstrating ways of working with these concepts, the authors involve the readers directly in the reading process. This stimulating and wide-ranging text provides tools with which to think about gender, to understand some of the complex material written about gender, and to locate the practices of gendering in everyday lives. It is essential reading for undergraduate students of women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, media studies, sociology and English.


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