Publisher's Synopsis
This book encourages students to rethink and revise the connections proposed in this reader, and make anew the significance of these texts in their own lives. These big concepts should encourage discussion, debate, and thought.
- Full text of major essays
- Contemporary issues including: masculinity studies, disability studies, war, terrorism, prisons, fear of feminism, and gay marriage
- Classic essays and documents from first and second wave feminist thinkers
- Critiques of how the history of feminism has been written
Articles Include:
Becky Thompson - Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism
Judith Lorber - The Social Construction of Gender
Ruth Frankenberg - The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Anne Fausto Sterling - The Five Sexes, revisited
