A Companion to Gender Studies

by Essed, Philomena; Goldberg, David Theo; Kobayashi, Audrey

• ISBN13: 9780631221098
• ISBN10: 0631221093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Gender Studies presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its new directions, injecting a much-needed infusion of new ideas into the field; Organized thematically and written in a lucid and lively fashion, each chapter gives insightful consideration to the differing views on its topic, and also clarifies each contributor's own position; Features original contributions from an international panel of leading experts in the field, and is co-edited by the well-known and internationally respected David Theo Goldberg.

Author Biography

Philomena Essed isSenior Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Irvine. 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 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 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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies	1	(28)
Philomena Essed
David Theo Goldberg
Audrey Kobayashi
Part I Interdisciplinarity
Women's Studies	29	(11)
Mary Maynard
Area Studies	40	(11)
Ella Shohat
Postcolonial Scholarship	51	(11)
Inderpal Grewal
Caren Kaplan
Queer Studies	62	(11)
Judith Halberstam
Part II Re-positionings
Epistemologies	73	(14)
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Genetic Sex	87	(15)
Amade M'charek
Lived Body versus Gender	102	(12)
Iris Marion Young
Masculinity	114	(18)
Toby Miller
Heterosexuality	132	(13)
Lorraine Nencel
Part III Jurisdictions
Nation	145	(15)
Lois A. West
Law	160	(21)
Katherine Franke
Policy	181	(11)
Carol Lee Bacchi
Domestic Violence	192	(10)
Madelaine Adelman
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing	202	(10)
Jennifer Hyndman
Crime	212	(29)
Tony Jefferson
Part IV Nonconformity
Science and Technology	241	(14)
Sandra Harding
Prostitution and Sex Work Studies	255	(11)
Kamala Kempadoo
Global Social Movements	266	(13)
Nitza Berkovitch
Sara Helman
Arab Women: Beyond Politics	279	(14)
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
Part V Mobility
Development under Globalization	293	(14)
Enakshi Dua
Migration and Refugees	307	(12)
Cecilia Menjivar
Class and Globalization	319	(10)
Abigail B. Bakan
Unions: Resistance and Mobilization	329	(13)
Linda Briskin
Corporate Masculinity	342	(15)
Agneta H. Fischer
Annelies E. M. van Vianen
Part VI Familiality
Family and Culture in Africa	357	(13)
Ifi Amadiume
The Caribbean Family?	370	(11)
D. Alissa Trotz
Family and Household in Latin America	381	(11)
Nina Laurie
Family in Europe	392	(13)
Joanna Regulska
Part VII Physicality
Reproduction	405	(10)
Laura Shanner
Disability	415	(13)
Anita Silvers
Health	428	(9)
Lesley Doyal
Sport	437	(20)
Martha Saavedra
Part VIII Spatiality
Environment and Sustainable Development	457	(10)
Irene Dankelman
Space and Cultural Meanings	467	(8)
Tovi Fenster
Architecture and Planning	475	(9)
Mona Domosh
Museums	484	(13)
Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
Part IX Reflectivity
Ethics	497	(12)
Vikki Bell
Religion	509	(10)
Pamela Dickey Young
Discourse	519	(11)
Ruth Wodak
The Violence of Gender	530	(14)
Mieke Bal
Index	544