Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives - Brossura

Kirk, Gwyn; Okazawa-Rey, Margo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073529419 ISBN 13: 9780073529417

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Riassunto

This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies by examining U.S. women's lives in a global context and across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide updated statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the readings. Each chapter includes "Questions to Frame Your Reading" and “Suggestions for Taking Action” to help students link their knowledge and understanding to their own lives and apply it to the world around them.

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L'autore:

Gwyn Kirk is a founder member of the East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women's Network Against Militarism. She has taught women's studies courses at a range of U.S. academic institutions, including Antioch College where she chaired the Women's Studies Program (1992-1995). She held the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College (1999-2001), a joint appointment with Margo Okazawa-Rey. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship in Women's Studies (University of Hawaii, 2002). Current research concerns the impact of military operations on the environment. Key interests include grassroots activism for sustainability and genuine security. Gwyn Kirk holds a Ph.D. in political sociology from the London School of Economics.

Contenuti:

Part 1 KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING
Ch 1. Theories and Theorizing: Integrative
Ch 2. Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?

Part 2. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
Ch 3. Women's Bodies and Beauty Ideals
Ch 4. Women's Sexuality
Ch 5. Women's Health
Ch 6. Violence against Women

Part 3. MAKING A HOME, MAKING A LIVING
Ch 7. Relationships, Families, and Households
Ch 8. Work, Wages, and Welfare
Ch 9. Living in a Global Economy

Part 4. SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Ch 10. Women, Crime and Criminalization
Ch 11. Women and the Military, War, and Peace
Ch 12 Women and the Environment

Part 5. ACTIVISM AND CHANGE
Ch 13. Creating Change: Theory, Vision, and Action

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073529419
• ISBN 13: 9780073529417
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 610