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Edited by three leading academics from Europe and the United States, and with 25 chapters written by scholars based throughout the world, the Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the `cultural turn' and globalization. The authors review current research and offer critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics. Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Current state of women's studies, gender studies, and studies of men -- Chapter 1 - The Life and Times of Academic Feminism -- Chapter 2 - The Shadow and the Substance: The Sex/Gender Debate -- Chapter 3 - Changing Studies on Men and Masculinities -- Part II: Cultural representations and critiques -- Chapter 4 - Gendered Cultures -- Chapter 5 - The Social Foundations of the Sacred: Feminists and the Politics of REligion -- Chapter 6 - The Crisis in Masculinity -- Part III: Knowledge -- Chapter 7 - Clearing Ground and Making Connections: Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism -- Chapter 8 - Women Knowing/Knowing Women: Critical-Creative Interventions in the Politics of Knowledge -- Chapter 9 - Gender, Change, and Education -- Part IV: Globalization and the state -- Chapter 10 - Gender in a Global World -- Chapter 11 - Insiders and Outsiders: Within and Beyond the Gendered Nation -- Chapter 12 - Towards a New Theorizing of Women, Gender, and War -- Chapter 13 - Mothers and Muslims, Sisters and Sojourners: The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship -- Part V: Work and Family -- Chapter 14 - Gender and Work -- Chapter 15 - Gender, Care, and the Welfare State -- Chapter 16 - Blending into Equality: Family Diversity and Gender Convergence -- Chapter VI: Intimate relationships and sexualities -- Chapter 17 - Thinking Straight, Acting Bent: Heteronormativity and Homosexuality -- Chapter 18 - Foreground Friendship: Feminist Pasts. Feminist Futures -- Chapter 19 - Transgendering: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender -- Part VII: Embodiment in a technological world -- Chapter 20 - Gendered Bodies: Between Conformity and Autonomy -- Chapter 21 - The Natural World and the Nature of Gender -- Chapter 22 - From Science and Technology to Feminist Technoscience.
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