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Introducing Women's Studies

Feminist theory and practice

  • Textbook
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Victoria Robinson

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  2. Diane Richardson

    1. Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introducing Women’s Studies

    • Victoria Robinson
    Pages 1-26

  3. Women’s Studies and its Interconnection with ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Sexuality

    • Kum-Kum Bhavnani
    Pages 27-53

  4. Feminist Theory: Capital F, Capital T

    • Jackie Stacey
    Pages 54-76

  5. Women, History and Protest

    • June Hannam
    Pages 77-97

  6. Women, Writing and Language: Making the Silences Speak

    • Gill Frith
    Pages 98-124

  7. The Picture is Political: Representation of Women in Contemporary Popular Culture

    • Margaret Marshment
    Pages 125-151

  8. Sexuality and Feminism

    • Diane Richardson
    Pages 152-174

  9. Women, Violence and Male Power

    • Mary Maynard, Jan Winn
    Pages 175-197

  10. Methodology Matters!

    • Liz Stanley
    Pages 198-219

  11. The Black Hole: Women’s Studies, Science and Technology

    • Lynda Birke, Marsha Henry
    Pages 220-238

  12. Women and Work

    • Anne Witz
    Pages 239-257

  13. Feminism and Social Policy

    • Fiona Williams
    Pages 258-281

  14. Women and Health

    • Jenny Hockey
    Pages 282-302

  15. Women and Education

    • Christine Skelton
    Pages 303-322

  16. Women, Marriage and Family Relationships

    • Stevi Jackson
    Pages 323-348

  17. Women and Reproduction

    • Jalna Hanmer
    Pages 349-374

  18. Motherhood and Women’s Lives

    • Paula Nicolson
    Pages 375-399

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 400-492
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About this book

This enlarged and fully updated edition of the best-selling Introduction to Women's Studies provides a wide-ranging and accessible overview of the main themes, issues and substantive areas in this popular. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, it introduces the student to key ideas and debates, offering an up-to-date summary of research and a critique of important arguments. Three new chapters have been added to extend further the book's broad scope and all the chapters have been revised to take account of the latest developments in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Victoria Robinson

  • Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

    Diane Richardson

About the editors

Diane Richardson is Professor of Sociology & Social Policy at Newcastle University, UK. She is internationally recognised for her research and publications in the area of feminist and sociological study of sexuality and gender. She has been awarded the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship and has held International Visiting Fellowships at Columbia, Harvard, Murdoch University, Australia and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

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