2nd Edition

Women's Studies: The Basics

By Bonnie G. Smith Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.