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Women's Studies: The Basics

Women's Studies: The Basics

By Bonnie G Smith

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Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women's studies and feminism, exploring the global development of the subject over time, and highlighting its relevance in the contemporary world.

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Book Information

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 03/25/2019
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781138495937
ISBN-10: 113849593X
Language: English

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Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women-past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development and its relevance to our own times. A new chapter on militarization and violence provides fresh insight into trends in the contemporary world and adds to curricular significance. Reflecting the diversity of the field, core themes include:

  • The interdisciplinary nature of women's studies
  • Core feminist theories and the feminist agenda
  • Issues of intersectionality: women, race, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion
  • Violence, militarization, security, and peace
  • Women, sexuality, and the body

Women's Studies: The Basics

provides an informed foundation for those new to the subject and is especially meant to guide undergraduates and postgraduates concentrating in women's studies and gender studies. Those in related disciplines will find in it a valuable overview of and background to women-centered issues and concerns, including global ones. The work also provides an updated list of suggested reading to help in further study, classroom presentations, and written exercises.

About the Author

Bonnie G. Smith is the author, editor, or co-author of more than twenty books and many essays in women's and gender history, European and world history, and historiography. As Board of Governors Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, she has taught women's studies courses, including the comparative history of feminism.<

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