Gender and Women's Studies: Critical Terrain

by Margaret Hobbs (Editor), Carla Rice (Editor)

Gender and Women's Studies provides an essential introduction to key issues, approaches, and concerns of the field. This comprehensive anthology celebrates a diversity of influential feminist thought on a broad range of topics using analyses sensitive to the intersections of gender, race, class, ability, age, and sexuality. Drawing on contemporary and classic pieces, the carefully selected and edited readings centre Indigenous, racialized, disabled, and queer voices. With over sixty percent new content, this thoroughly updated second edition contains infographics and original activist artwork; a new section on gender, migration, and citizenship; and new chapters on sex work as labour, the politics of veiling, trans and queer identities, Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, masculinity, online activism, and contemporary social justice movements including Black Lives Matter and Idle No More. Concerned with the past, present, and future of gender identity, gendered representations, feminism, and activism, this book is an indispensable resource for students in gender and women's studies classrooms across Canada and the United States.

782 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2018

Reviews

[Lisa Laplante · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short chapters make it easy to dive into a little at a time. Works from all kinds of notable feminist activists/academics are excerpted and included. This text is organized in a way that shows the links between different works. Even though I bought it for school, I'm keeping it and reading the sections we didn't cover... and marking up the margins with my reactions!