Gender Studies: Terms and Debates

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender studies, cultural studies, and sociology. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analysis and by demonstrating ways of working with these concepts, the authors involve the readers directly in the reading process and leave them feeling empowered. Accessible introductions to the work of major theorists help to give difficult concepts a context and the theory is related back to practice and to related fields such as class and race analysis throughout.

Anne Cranny-Francis is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies, Wendy Waring is Director of the Institute for Women's Studies, Pam Stavropolous lectures in the Department of Politics, and Joan Kirkby is Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies, all at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.