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Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and frameworks of the interdisciplinary field of Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. It unpacks the social construction of gender and sexuality, questions categories of difference and inequality, explores how systems of power are perpetuated in social institutions, and describes how advocates have engaged in efforts to address these inequalities.
- Author
- Emily Pain
- Publisher
- Grand Rapids Community College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 26 sections
- 01: Introduction to the Field
- 02: Identities and Other Terms
- 03: Variation in Sex Gender and Sexuality
- 04: Theorizing Lived Experience
- 05: Social Constructionism
- 06: Binary Systems
- 07: The Sex Gender Sexuality System
- 08: Sexualities
- 09: Systems of Power
- 10: Race
- 11: Class
- 12: Intersectionality
- 13: Masculinities and Femininities
- 14: Institutions Culture and Structures
- 15: Family
- 16: Media
- 17: Medicine
- 18: The State
- 19: The Welfare State
- 20: Work
- 21: The Global Economy
- 22: Gender and Sexual Violence
- 23: Social Movements Part I
- 24: Social Movements Part II
- 25: Social Movements Part III
- References