Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies

Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988). CONTRIBUTORS Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra Gon Buurman Amsterdam Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan Joanne Finkelstein Monash University Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent Linda McKie University of Aberdeen Monica Rudberg University of Oslo Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen Mary Evans is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is the editor of both editions of The Woman Question (Fontana, 1982 and Sage, 1994) and co-editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Lorber was actively involved in Sociologists for Women in Society from the early 1970's. She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, where she was the first Coordinator of the Women's Studies Certificate Program in 1988-1991. She was Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender Section in 1992-93 and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 "in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.

Introduction - Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber PART ONE: CURRENT STATE OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES AND STUDIES OF MEN The Life and Times of Academic Feminism - Clare Hemmings The Shadow and the Substance - Wendy Cealey Harrison The Sex/Gender Debate Changing Studies on Men and Masculinities - Jeff Hearn and Michael Kimmel PART TWO: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CRITIQUES Gendered Cultures - Gabriele Griffin The Social Foundations of the Sacred - Bronwyn Winter Feminists and the Politics of Religion The Crisis in Masculinity - David Morgan PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE Clearing Ground and Making Connections - Carolyn DiPalma and Kathy Ferguson Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism Critical Interventions in Feminist Epistemology - Lorraine Code Gender, Change and Education - Diana Leonard PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATE Gender in a Global World - Miri Song Insiders and Outsiders - Barbara Einhorn Within and Beyond the Gendered Nation Towards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender and War - Dubravka Zarkov Mothers and Muslims, Sisters and Soujourners - Baukje Prins The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship PART FIVE: WORK AND FAMILY Working with Gender - Rosemary Crompton Gender, Care and the Welfare State - Clare Ungerson Coming Together Through Change - Molly Monahan Lang and Barbara Risman Family Diversity and Gender Convergence PART SIX: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITIES Thinking Straight, Acting Bent - Chrys Ingraham Heteronormativity and Homosexuality Foregrounding Friendship - Sasha Roseneil Feminist Pasts, Feminist Futures Transgendering - Wendy McKenna and Suzanne Kessler Blurring the Boundaries of Gender PART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD Gendered Bodies - Sharyn Roach Anleu Between Conformity and Autonomy The Natural World and the Nature of Gender - Irmgard Schultz Gendered Science and Feminist Critiques of Technology - Jutta Weber PART EIGHT: MAKING CHANGE Moral Perspectives - Joan Tronto Gender, Ethics and Political Theory Having It All - Sue Wise and Liz Stanley Feminist Fractured Foundationalism From Autonomy to Solidarities - Manisha Desai Transnational Feminist Political Strategies Utopian Visions - Judith Lorber A World Without Gender? Getting Real - Mary Evans Contextualising Gender Feminist Politics of Location - Kathy Davis

"The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies is an exceptional academic text for a broad examination of gender. The well-organized, eight-section volume focuses on gender through a wide range of academic lenses. Its twenty-six chapters offer diverse theoretical, geographical, historical, and academic perspectives, yet display a common desire to understand the human division of male and female." -- Erin Gratz * The University of Wisconsin System * This impressive collection of articles about the state of gender and women's studies encompasses a range of intellectual perspectives and suggest new directions for feminist theory, analysis, and research in the 21st century. These challenging essays engage scholars in a lively debate that calls for recognition of the revolutionary impact of feminist thought on the academy, with particular emphasis on its disruption of traditional ways to knowing, analyzing, and understanding. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- A.K. Frisken * CHOICE *