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