A Companion to Gender Studies [Hardcover]

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• Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its new directions, injecting a much-needed infusion of new ideas into the field;
  
• Organized thematically and written in a lucid and lively fashion, each chapter gives insightful consideration to the differing views on its topic, and also clarifies each contributor's own position;
  
• Features original contributions from an international panel of leading experts in the field, and is co-edited by the well-known and internationally respected David Theo Goldberg.

List of Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies 1
Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, Audrey Kobayashi

Part I Interdisciplinarity

1 Women’s Studies 29
Mary Maynard

2 Area Studies 40
Ella Shohat

3 Postcolonial Scholarship 51
Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan

4 Queer Studies 62
Judith Halberstam

Part II Re-positionings

5 Epistemologies 73
Laura Hyun Yi Kang

6 Genetic Sex 87
Amâde M’charek