Gender: The Key Concepts
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Mary Evans (Útgáfa: 1)
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This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term. Taking a truly interdisciplinary and global view of gender studies, concepts covered include: Agency Diaspora Heteronormativity Subjectivity Performativity Class Feminist Politics Body Gender identity Reflexivity.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781136186929
- 9780367489168
- ePub
- 1
- Mary Evans
- English
- 2013-02-11
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Key Concepts
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Gender: The Key Concepts
- Affect
- Notes
- Agency
- Agency and the subject
- Resistance and representation
- Do only humans have agency?
- Conclusion
- The Body
- Care
- Class
- Introduction
- Historical background
- Class analysis
- Lived experiences of class
- The reproduction of class
- Intersecting identities
- Notes
- Citizenship
- History and contestations
- Feminist citizenship theory
- Some institutional approaches to gender equitable citizenship
- Why citizenship?
- Notes
- Cultural Difference
- Difference
- Cultural difference and ‘ethnic' minorities
- Cultural difference, cultural diversity and gender
- Notes
- Cyberspace
- Diaspora
- Definition and history of the concept
- How the concept is used: colonialism and globalization
- Significance and impact of the concept on gender studies
- Queer diasporas
- Disability
- Femininities
- Stories of female success
- Intersections with sexuality, race and class
- Normative femininities and subjectivity
- The Feminization of Poverty
- Strategies for minimizing gender differences in poverty rates
- Characterizations of the ‘feminization of poverty'
- Over-emphasis on income
- Intra-household resource allocation
- Emphasis on female-headed households
- The feminization of responsibility and obligation
- Empirical evidence
- Conclusion
- Feminism and Psychoanalysis
- Feminist Economics
- Introduction
- Feminist values
- The trajectory of feminist economics
- Feminist Epistemology
- Feminist Politics
- Feminist challenges to ‘politics'
- Feminism and the state
- Feminist movements for political change
- The politics of feminism
- Gender and Development
- Gender-Based Violence
- Measuring GBV
- Addressing GBV: common approaches and critiques
- Gender Identity
- Introduction
- Identity, identification and disidentification
- Performativity, citationality and melancholia
- Regulation, biopolitics and assemblage
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Heteronormativity
- Notes
- Interdisciplinarity
- Intersectionality
- Introduction
- Intersectionality: theoretical premise and critique
- Intersectional analysis
- Concluding thoughts
- Notes
- Lgbt Politics
- The Male Gaze
- Men, Masculinity and Masculinities
- Introduction
- Masculinity
- Masculinities
- Development and critique
- Back to Men
- End Comments
- New Reproductive Technologies
- Performativity
- Feminist politics and the question of agency
- Critical questions and new directions
- Postcolonialism
- Postfeminism
- Power
- Reflexivity
- Representation
- The Sexual Division of Labour
- Definition of concept
- Background and history of the term or concept
- How the concept is used in practice/study
- Significance and impact of the concept today in modern practice/study
- Subjectivity
- Transnational Feminisms
- Notes
- Women's Studies/Gender Studies
- The institutionalization of women's and gender studies
- Time, turns and generations in women's and gender studies
- Space and travel in women's and gender studies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index