A Companion to Gender Studies

A Companion to Gender Studies presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. 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.

Philomena Essed isSenior Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures (1990) while her other books include Understanding Everyday Racism (1991); Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (1996), and Refugees and the Transformation of Societies (2004). With David Theo Goldberg, she edited Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (Blackwell 2001).

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. A tremendously prolific author and editor, his most recent publications include The Racial State (Blackwell 2001), Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 1994), Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Blackwell 1993), and Anatomy of Racism (1990). He is also editor, with Ato Quayson, of Relocating Postcolonialism (Blackwell 2002).

Audrey Kobayashi is Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. Her articles have appeared in The Professional Geographer, The Journal of Geography, and The Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

List of Contributors

viii

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies

1

(28)

Philomena Essed

David Theo Goldberg

Audrey Kobayashi

Part I Interdisciplinarity

Women's Studies

29

(11)

Mary Maynard

Area Studies

40

(11)

Ella Shohat

Postcolonial Scholarship

51

(11)

Inderpal Grewal

Caren Kaplan

Queer Studies

62

(11)

Judith Halberstam

Part II Re-positionings

Epistemologies

73

(14)

Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Genetic Sex

87

(15)

Amade M'charek

Lived Body versus Gender

102

(12)

Iris Marion Young

Masculinity

114

(18)

Toby Miller

Heterosexuality

132

(13)

Lorraine Nencel

Part III Jurisdictions

Nation

145

(15)

Lois A. West

Law

160

(21)

Katherine Franke

Policy

181

(11)

Carol Lee Bacchi

Domestic Violence

192

(10)

Madelaine Adelman

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

202

(10)

Jennifer Hyndman

Crime

212

(29)

Tony Jefferson

Part IV Nonconformity

Science and Technology

241

(14)

Sandra Harding

Prostitution and Sex Work Studies

255

(11)

Kamala Kempadoo

Global Social Movements

266

(13)

Nitza Berkovitch

Sara Helman

Arab Women: Beyond Politics

279

(14)

Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

Part V Mobility

Development under Globalization

293

(14)

Enakshi Dua

Migration and Refugees

307

(12)

Cecilia Menjivar

Class and Globalization

319

(10)

Abigail B. Bakan

Unions: Resistance and Mobilization

329

(13)

Linda Briskin

Corporate Masculinity

342

(15)

Agneta H. Fischer

Annelies E. M. van Vianen

Part VI Familiality

Family and Culture in Africa

357

(13)

Ifi Amadiume

The Caribbean Family?

370

(11)

D. Alissa Trotz

Family and Household in Latin America

381

(11)

Nina Laurie

Family in Europe

392

(13)

Joanna Regulska

Part VII Physicality

Reproduction

405

(10)

Laura Shanner

Disability

415

(13)

Anita Silvers

Health

428

(9)

Lesley Doyal

Sport

437

(20)

Martha Saavedra

Part VIII Spatiality

Environment and Sustainable Development

457

(10)

Irene Dankelman

Space and Cultural Meanings

467

(8)

Tovi Fenster

Architecture and Planning

475

(9)

Mona Domosh

Museums

484

(13)

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

Part IX Reflectivity

Ethics

497

(12)

Vikki Bell

Religion

509

(10)

Pamela Dickey Young

Discourse

519

(11)

Ruth Wodak

The Violence of Gender

530

(14)

Mieke Bal

Index

544

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A Companion to Gender Studies

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