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Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
Catharine R. Stimpson
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Description for Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
Paperback. Provides an introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. This title features twenty-one essays that cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences. Editor(s): Stimpson, Catharine R.; Herdt, Gilbert. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
So write women's studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt in their introduction to Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and rapidly changing field. The sixth in the series of Critical Terms books, this volume provides an indispensable introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. Following Stimpson and Herdt's careful account of the evolution of gender studies and its relation to women's and sexuality studies, the twenty-one essays here cast an appropriately broad ... Read more
So write women's studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt in their introduction to Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and rapidly changing field. The sixth in the series of Critical Terms books, this volume provides an indispensable introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. Following Stimpson and Herdt's careful account of the evolution of gender studies and its relation to women's and sexuality studies, the twenty-one essays here cast an appropriately broad ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
872g
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226774817
SKU
V9780226774817
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About Catharine R. Stimpson
Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Gilbert Herdt is professor in and director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and ... Read more
Reviews for Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives-in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups.... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social structures ... Read more