Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

Following Stimpson and Herdt's careful account of the evolution of gender studies and its relation to women's and sexuality studies, this title features twenty-one essays that cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.

About the author

Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Gilbert Herdt is professor in and director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and director emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. His books include Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Catharine R. Herdt Stimpson
• Assisted by: Gilbert Herdt (Editor), Catharine R. Stimpson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2014
• EAN: 9780226774800
• ISBN: 978-0-226-77480-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories