This is a substantially revised and refocused third edition of a best-selling and highly regarded textbook. Carefully designed to reflect both classic and new developments in the popular and lively fields of gender and women's studies, its breadth and depth make it suitable for students taking courses for the first time at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. Its new design and structure both highlight the connections across different areas of debate and maximize the book's accessibility as an indispensable source book for study.

Introducing Gender and Women's Studies

Politics & Social Sciences

Richardson, Diane

Victoria Robinson

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This is the first textbook in women's studies to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the major issues and topics within key areas of the subject including feminist theory, race, sexuality, violence, education, the family, representation, work, and debates within women's studies itself. More than a reader, this is a key text for students of women's studies and those interested generally in feminist perspectives.

Introducing Women's Studies: Feminist Theory and Practice

Diane Richardson

<p>This new edition of the bestselling Introducing Women's Studies provides the reader with an up- to-date beginner text that covers major debates in women's studies in a comprehensive and accessible way. Fully revised and expanded, with new chapters on social policy, science and technology, and feminist research methodologies, this book explores the major subject areas of women's studies. Each chapter, written by an expert in the particular subject area, provides a clear overview of the main issues and debates, as well as suggestions for further reading. Chapters focus on the following turning the tide in women's studies; feminist theory; sexuality, power, and feminism; women, violence, and male power; representations of women in contemporary popular culture; women, writing, and language; women, marriage, and family relationships; motherhood and women's lives; women and reproduction; women and health; women at work; women, history, and protest; women and education; feminist research methodology; feminism and social policy; and women's studies, science, and technology.</p>

Women's Studies

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