Critical Terms for the Study of Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Terms for the Study of Gender write by Catharine R. Stimpson. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Critical Terms for the Study of Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social structures and sources of identity.” So write women’s studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt in their introduction to Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and rapidly changing field. The sixth in the series of “Critical Terms” books, this volume provides an indispensable introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. Following Stimpson and Herdt’s careful account of the evolution of gender studies and its relation to women’s and sexuality studies, the twenty-one essays here cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences. Written by a distinguished group of scholars, each essay presents students with a history of a given term—from bodies to utopia—and explains the conceptual baggage it carries and the kinds of critical work it can be made to do. The contributors offer incisive discussions of topics ranging from desire, identity, justice, and kinship to love, race, and religion that suggest new directions for the understanding of gender studies. The result is an essential reference addressed to students studying gender in very different disciplinary contexts.
Critical Terms for Religious Studies
Critical Terms for Religious Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Terms for Religious Studies write by Mark C. Taylor. This book was released on 1998-08-15. Critical Terms for Religious Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight.
Critical Terms for Literary Study
Critical Terms for Literary Study - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Terms for Literary Study write by Frank Lentricchia. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Critical Terms for Literary Study available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits. Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
Critical Terms for Gender Studies
Critical Terms for Gender Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Terms for Gender Studies write by Gilbert H. Herdt. This book was released on . Critical Terms for Gender Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Critical Terms for the Study of Africa
Critical Terms for the Study of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Terms for the Study of Africa write by Gaurav Desai. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Critical Terms for the Study of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders’ wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the development of the academic study of Africa. Critical Terms for the Study of Africa considers the legacies that have shaped our understanding of the continent and its place within the conceptual grammar of contemporary world affairs. Written by a distinguished group of scholars, the essays compiled in this volume take stock of African studies today and look toward a future beyond its fraught intellectual and political past. Each essay discusses one of our most critical terms for talking about Africa, exploring the trajectory of its development while pushing its boundaries. Editors Gaurav Desai and Adeline Masquelier balance the choice of twenty-five terms between the expected and the unexpected, calling for nothing short of a new mapping of the scholarly field. The result is an essential reference that will challenge assumptions, stimulate lively debate, and make the past, present, and future of African Studies accessible to students and teachers alike.
