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Women’s Knowledge Digital Library

Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

cover of book Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
This open access textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender, and sexualities.

Description

This open access textbook unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, as well as the processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.

Authors

Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, and Sonny Nordmarken

Publication Year

2017

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Source

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-women-gender-sexuality-studies

Language

English

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