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).CONTRIBUTORSAnna Aalten University of AmsterdamRachel AD Bloul ANU CanberraGon Buurman AmsterdamJulia Edwards University of GlamorganJoanne Finkelstein Monash UniversityIneke Klinge University of UtrechtGesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on TrentLinda McKie University of AberdeenMonica Rudberg University of OsloAnne Woollett University of East London, StratfordDubravka 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.

"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."

• Introduction - Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith LorberPART ONE: CURRENT STATE OF WOMEN′S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES AND STUDIES OF MEN The Life and Times of Academic Feminism - Clare HemmingsThe Shadow and the Substance - Wendy Cealey HarrisonThe Sex/Gender DebateChanging Studies on Men and Masculinities - Jeff Hearn and Michael KimmelPART TWO: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CRITIQUESGendered Cultures - Gabriele GriffinThe Social Foundations of the Sacred - Bronwyn WinterFeminists and the Politics of Religion The Crisis in Masculinity - David MorganPART THREE: KNOWLEDGEClearing Ground and Making Connections - Carolyn DiPalma and Kathy FergusonModernism, Postmodernism, FeminismCritical Interventions in Feminist Epistemology - Lorraine CodeGender, Change and Education - Diana LeonardPART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATEGender in a Global World - Miri SongInsiders and Outsiders - Barbara EinhornWithin and Beyond the Gendered NationTowards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender and War - Dubravka ZarkovMothers and Muslims, Sisters and Soujourners - Baukje PrinsThe Contested Boundaries of Feminist CitizenshipPART FIVE: WORK AND FAMILYWorking with Gender - Rosemary CromptonGender, Care and the Welfare State - Clare UngersonComing Together Through Change - Molly Monahan Lang and Barbara RismanFamily Diversity and Gender ConvergencePART SIX: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITIESThinking Straight, Acting Bent - Chrys IngrahamHeteronormativity and HomosexualityForegrounding Friendship - Sasha RoseneilFeminist Pasts, Feminist FuturesTransgendering - Wendy McKenna and Suzanne KesslerBlurring the Boundaries of GenderPART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLDGendered Bodies - Sharyn Roach AnleuBetween Conformity and AutonomyThe Natural World and the Nature of Gender - Irmgard SchultzGendered Science and Feminist Critiques of Technology - Jutta WeberPART EIGHT: MAKING CHANGEMoral Perspectives - Joan TrontoGender, Ethics and Political TheoryHaving It All - Sue Wise and Liz StanleyFeminist Fractured FoundationalismFrom Autonomy to Solidarities - Manisha DesaiTransnational Feminist Political StrategiesUtopian Visions - Judith LorberA World Without Gender?Getting Real - Mary EvansContextualising GenderFeminist Politics of Location - Kathy Davis