Key Concepts in Gender Studies

Including nine new entries, this thoroughly revised edition provides an authoritative account of gender studies, reflecting on the complex and multi-faceted character of the field in a way that is accessible to students across the social sciences and humanities.

The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field.

Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and Mainstreaming.

Each of the entries:

• begins with a concise definition
• outlines the history of each term and the debates surrounding it
• includes illustrations of how the concept has been applied within the field
• offers examples which allow a critical re-evaluation of the concept
• is cross-referenced with the other key concepts
• ends with guidance on further reading.

A must-buy for undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Introduction
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