Introduction. A-Z of Key Concepts. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Mary Evans is a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, based at the Gender Institute. She has written studies of feminist theory, Jane Austen and Simone de Beauvoir and is currently working on issues related to the continuation of gender inequality.
Carolyn Williams has worked in international development and feminism since 1981. She holds a PhD from the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, where she works as a guest teacher, and is currently researching changing forms of intimacy in the context of migration and multiculturalism.
'This compilation of key concepts provides students, faculty, researchers, and the literate public with enormously useful tools with which to engage in the study and debates of gender studies.' - Judith Lorber, City University of New York, USA
'The scholarship in each entry provides a rich trail for tracking the historical evolution of ideas, and the volumen's extensive thirty-five-page bibliography is itself a historal and contemporary reflection of the major ideas of feminist theorists, activists, and pedagogues who have contributed to the evolution of ideas on gender." -Pamela M. Salela, University of Illinois at Springield, Feminist Collections, 2014
