Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
by Miliann Kang - Author / Donovan Lessard - Author / Laura Heston - Author / Sonny Nordmarken
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.
Description from Open Textbook Library.
- Publisher
- UMass Amherst
- Year
- 2017
- Subjects
- Social Sciences - Economics, Social Sciences - Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Licence
- Attribution, as Open Textbook Library states it
- Who can read
- Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects