Description

Overview:

This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.

Subject:

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Level:

Community College / Lower Division

Material Type:

Textbook

Author:

Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Miliann Kang, Sonny Nordmarken

Provider:

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Date Added:

06/30/2017