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50 key concepts in gender studies by Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Sage Publications 2004Description: xv + 193 pISBN:
  • 0761970363
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
Summary: Lively and impressive. I can easily imagine this text being us gender and women's studies undergraduates and postgraduates. In particular it will enable students to get a sense of how older and more contemporary theoretical movements and debates relate to one another. Part of a new `Key Concepts' series published by Sage, Key Concepts in Gender Studies offers 1,500 word expositions of 50 topics central to the field. Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan's 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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Lively and impressive. I can easily imagine this text being us gender and women's studies undergraduates and postgraduates. In particular it will enable students to get a sense of how older and more contemporary theoretical movements and debates relate to one another. Part of a new `Key Concepts' series published by Sage, Key Concepts in Gender Studies offers 1,500 word expositions of 50 topics central to the field. Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan's 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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