Major Works: Gender Studies - Soc Sci

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11. Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Sex, class and race in literature and culture

    Edited by Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society....

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
12. At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism and Legal Theory

    Edited by Martha Fineman, Nancy Thomadsen

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women’s roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
13. Feminist Knowledge (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Critique and Construct

    Edited by Sneja Gunew

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The ‘minority’ feminist viewpoints have often been submerged in the interests of maintaining a mainstream, universal model of feminism. This anthology takes into account the various differences among women while looking at the important areas of feminist struggle. While sisterhood is indeed global,...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
14. Feminist Praxis (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology

    Edited by Liz Stanley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward. Designed precisely with feminist researchers in mind, Feminist Praxis gives detailed analytic accounts of particular examples of feminist research, showing how feminist...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
15. Feminists Read Habermas (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Gendering the Subject of Discourse

    Edited by Johanna Meehan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas's theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity. Feminist scholars have been drawn to his...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
16. Gendered Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory)

    The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching

    Edited by Catherine Portuges, Margo Culley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The phrase ‘feminist pedagogy’ couples the contemporary and the traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for teaching. Now, two decades after the first Women’s Studies courses appeared on campuses, their place...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
17. Men in Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Edited by Alice Jardine, Paul Smith

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    What are men doing in feminist discourse? Although many feminists have commented on the relation, actual or possible, of men to feminist thinking and practice, and although some male academics have written about feminism, there has so far been little shared discussion. Men in Feminism is the first...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
18. Nostalgia and Sexual Difference (RLE Feminist Theory)

    The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism

    Edited by Janice Doane, DEVON HODGES

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    Dissatisfaction with the present can cause people to gaze nostalgically back to an idealized past; that nostalgia pervades contemporary rhetoric. In lamenting the ‘degeneracy’ of present-day America, social and literary critics as well as contemporary novelists often choose as their scapegoat the...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
19. The Horned God (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism and Men as Wounding and Healing

    By John Rowan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    This original and pioneering study of how men relate to feminism will appeal to all men who are concerned about their response to the women’s movement and to the women in their lives. It will also be helpful for women seeking a constructive response from men. John Rowan, drawing on his personal...

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
20. The Oppositional Imagination (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Feminism, Critique and Political Theory

    Edited by Joan Cocks

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

    The Oppositional Imagination draws together elements from Marxism, analytical philosophy, post-structuralism, and post-colonial criticism to analyse the elusive interplay of culture and power. It focuses its attention on cultural domination, opposition and evasion in the realm of sex and gender....

    Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge