Joanna Hadjicostandi-Anang – författare

Women's and Gender Studies: Intersectional Voices provides students with a crucial introduction to key approaches, topics, and concerns with the discipline through a carefully curated selection of readings. The anthology celebrates a diversity of influential feminist thought and focuses on a broad range of topics using analyses sensitive to the intersections of gender, race, white privilege, ability, class, age, and queer representations and experiences in diverse social spaces.The book features essays, narratives, poems, and other contributions to explore how individuals research, analyze, and perceive gender differences. The readings help students examine various social structures in a historical context and analyze gender relations, including gender role socialization, women's work in and out of the home, limitations of traditional gender roles, white privilege and antiracism, queer politics, and gender-based crime and violence in the U.S. and internationally. Discussion questions throughout the anthology invite students to think critically and reflect on the material. Women's and Gender Studies is designed to serve as an enlightening and inclusive introduction to courses in the discipline.

Social Stratification: Exposing Inequities and Pursuing Social Justice provides students with a collection of scholarly articles that explore inequalities observed within societies in the United States and across the globe. With a range of readings organized into eight cohesive units, the book draws connections between academic research and societal facets of inequality with particular attention to race, Black liberation, community development, gender, social justice, migration issues, and the climate crisis. The book guides the reader through a sociological exploration, offering a comprehensive look at topics including the social construct of race, the intricacies of intersectionality, and the dynamics of migration and globalization. Featuring a wide array of scholarly perspectives, the collection provides a diverse spectrum of thoughts and findings on contentious social subjects, stimulating critical thought on how historical and current societal arrangements contribute to stratification and injustice. Social Stratification is ideal for courses that explore sociological theory and practice, social justice education, and interdisciplinary studies focusing on ingrained inequalities. Courses that tackle complex global issues through the lens of social structures may also benefit from the in-depth content provided in this anthology.