Some 1,000 critically annotated entries, with introductory comments and cross references, provide a comprehensive guide to printed and organizational sources in women's studies throughout the world. It is both an overview of information sources on women's studies as a subject for study in its own right, and a guide to women's studies literature within other academic disciplines.
DIVEssays on the future of women's studies as an academic discipline./div
The purpose of the present anthology is to bring together, select, and organize the publishing work that has been done in the last two decades.
The goal of the book is to trace and expose critical paradoxes, ironies, and contradictions embedded in the language of Women’s and Gender Studies—from its high theory to its casual conversations—that relies on these key terms.
Later, many scholars from these programs also became affiliate faculty of what eventually became the Women's Studies Department that now offers an undergraduate major and minor, a graduate certificate, as well as a Ph.D.
Bringing together essays by newcomers as well as veterans to the field, this essential volume addresses timely questions including: Without a unitary understanding of the subject, woman, what is the focus of women's studies?
CONTENTS:VL VIEWS FROM THE SCIENCES; V2 LITERATURE, ARTS, AND LEARNING.
The goal of this book is to introduce conservative perspectives into the issues of gender, sexuality, race, and power that are topics of teaching and discussion in women’s studies courses.
The tremendous recent growth of the women's movement as a political force has been accompanied by an event of equal import to the academic world--the development of the discipline of...
Groundbreaking volume provides positive strategies for eliminating gender bias in middle school and high school classrooms.
Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection.