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Introduction to Women/ Gender/ Sexuality Studies


Author: Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Sonny Nordmarken
Subject: Social Sciences
Source: Open Textbook Library
Publisher: UMass Amherst
ISBN: 9781945764028
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This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women/ Gender/ Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference/ 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.

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