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Key concepts in gender studies /

Pilcher, Jane.

Key concepts in gender studies / - 2nd edition. - Los Angeles, California : Sage, 2017. - 194 pages ; 24 cm.

About the authors -- Preface to the second edition : mainstreaming or new activism? Gender studies and gender politics -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to 2004 edition : everywhere and somewhere : gender studies, feminist perspectives and interdisciplinarity -- Age/Ageing -- Androcentrism -- Backlash -- Body /Embodiment -- Citizenship -- Class -- Consciousness Raising -- Cyberfeminism -- Cyborg -- Dichotemy -- Domestic Division of Labour -- Double Standard -- Equality -- Essentialism -- Family/Motherhood -- Feminisms -- Gender -- Gender Order -- Gender Segregation -- Gendered -- Girlpower -- Global Feminisms -- Heterosexuality -- Ideology -- Intersectionality -- Lesbian Continuum/Lesbian Feminism -- Mainstreaming -- Masculinities -- Neoliberalism -- (The) Other -- Patriarchy -- Pornography -- Postfeminism -- Postmodernism -- Power -- Psychoanalytical Feminism -- Public/Private -- Queer Theory -- Race/Ethnicity -- Representation -- Reproductive Technologies -- Separatism -- Sex Work -- Sexual Contract -- Sexuality -- Standpoint -- Stereotype -- Transgender -- Violence -- Waves of Feminism.

The authors' introduction gives an account of gender studies - what it is and how it originated. Their selection of topics is authoritative and the 50 entries reflect the complex, multi-faceted nature of the field in an accessible dictionary format.

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Women's studies.
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