Philomena Essed isProfessor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies, PhD in Leadership and Change Program, Antioch University, USA, and Affiliated Researcher, Graduate Gender Program, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures (1990) while her other books include Understanding Everyday Racism (1991); Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (1996), and Refugees and the Transformation of Societies (2004). With David Theo Goldberg, she edited Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (Blackwell 2001). David Theo Goldberg is Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. A tremendously prolific author and editor, his most recent publications include The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (Wiley-Blackwell 2008), The Racial State (Blackwell 2001), Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 1994), Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Blackwell 1993), and Anatomy of Racism (1990). He is also editor, with Ato Quayson, of Relocating Postcolonialism (Blackwell 2002). Audrey Kobayashi is Queen's Research Chair and Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. Her articles have appeared in The Professional Geographer, The Journal of Geography, and The Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

"This ambitious volume is an essential sourcebook in Gender Studies at all levels and the point de départ for future research. It transcends the boundaries of a quite remarkable range of traditional disciplines, highlighting the gender issues within each, directly and accessibly. Fascinating and illuminating! Recommended to all academic libraries.” H.G.A. Hughes, Reference Reviews"After twenty years of discussions on the importance of combining poststructuralist anti-foundationalism with intellectual, political and ethical accountability, here is a volume that actually practices what it preaches. This is a very important and necessary collection that conveys a flair for theoretical complexity in a direct and accessible way. It succeeds in addressing gender issues within an impressive range of disciplines and a broad span of interdisciplinary areas. It drives home time and again the notion that gender today should function as a verb that connects multiple differences and not as an essential entity. Compulsory reading for us all." Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University "This Companion is a landmark text in establishing dialogues of critical race theory, postcolonialism, and globalization with studies on gender." Jeff Hearn, Swedish School of Economics and University of Huddersfield

• List of Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies 1Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, Audrey KobayashiPart I Interdisciplinarity1 Women’s Studies 29Mary Maynard2 Area Studies 40Ella Shohat3 Postcolonial Scholarship 51Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan4 Queer Studies 62Judith HalberstamPart II Re-positionings5 Epistemologies 73Laura Hyun Yi Kang6 Genetic Sex 87Amâde M’charek7 Lived Body versus Gender 102Iris Marion Young8 Masculinity 114Toby Miller9 Heterosexuality 132Lorraine NencelPart III Jurisdictions10 Nation 145Lois A. West11 Law 160Katherine Franke12 Policy 181Carol Lee Bacchi13 Domestic Violence 192Madelaine Adelman14 Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing 202Jennifer Hyndman15 Crime 212Tony JeffersonPart IV Nonconformity16 Science and Technology 241Sandra Harding17 Prostitution and Sex Work Studies 255Kamala Kempadoo18 Global Social Movements 266Nitza Berkovitch and Sara Helman19 Arab Women: Beyond Politics 279Ratiba Hadj-MoussaPart V Mobility20 Development under Globalization 293Enakshi Dua21 Migration and Refugees 307Cecilia Menjívar22 Class and Globalization 319Abigail B. Bakan23 Unions: Resistance and Mobilization 329Linda Briskin24 Corporate Masculinity 342Agneta H. Fischer and Annelies E. M. van VianenPart VI Familiality25 Family and Culture in Africa 357Ifi Amadiume26 The Caribbean Family? 370D. Alissa Trotz27 Family and Household in Latin America 381Nina Laurie28 Family in Europe 392Joanna RegulskaPart VII Physicality29 Reproduction 405Laura Shanner30 Disability 415Anita Silvers31 Health 428Lesley Doyal32 Sport 437Martha SaavedraPart VIII Spatiality33 Environment and Sustainable Development 457Irene Dankelman34 Space and Cultural Meanings 467Tovi Fenster35 Architecture and Planning 475Mona Domosh36 Museums 484Ellen Fernandez-SaccoPart IX Reflectivity37 Ethics 497Vikki Bell38 Religion 509Pamela Dickey Young39 Discourse 519Ruth Wodak40 The Violence of Gender 530Mieke BalIndex 544