Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Handbook of feminist theory

Evans, Mary, Hemmings, Clare, Henry, Marsha, Johnstone, Hazel, Madhok, Sumi ORCID: 0000-0002-3192-6098, Plomien, Ania ORCID: 0000-0001-5883-2297 and Wearing, Sadie, eds. (2014) Handbook of feminist theory. Sage Publications, London, UK. ISBN 9781446252413

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory. The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering: Epistemology and marginality Literary, visual and cultural representations Sexuality Macro and microeconomics of gender Conflict and peace. The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think ‘theoretically’ is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism. It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.sagepub.com/
Additional Information: © 2014 Sage Publications
Divisions: Gender Studies
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2014 09:46
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:54
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56979

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item