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Informationen zum Autor Susan M. Shaw is Director of the Women Studies Program at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. from Southern Seminary in 1987 and taught Religious Studies for eight years before joining the Women Studies faculty at OSU in 1996. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the University Continuing Education Association's 2002 Meritorious Course Award for her web-based version of OSU's introductory women's studies course. She is the author of Storytelling in Religious Education.ation. Janet Lee is Professor of Women Studies at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1985 and served as Director of OSU's Women Studies Program from 1991-2002. She recently received the OSU College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award that recognizes distinguished teaching, scholarship, and service. She is the author of Blood Stories: Menarche and the Politics of the Female Body in U.S. Society (with Jennifer Sasser-Coen) and Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester. Klappentext As a leading introductory women's and gender studies reader, Shaw and Lee's Women's Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women's experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students. Zusammenfassung As a leading introductory women's and gender studies reader, Shaw and Lee's Women's Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedication
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1 Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices
Chapter 2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality
Chapter 3 Learning Gender
Chapter 4 Inscribing Gender on the Body
Chapter 5 Media and Culture
Chapter 6 Sex, Power, and Intimacy
Chapter 7 Health and Reproductive Justice
Chapter 8 Family Systems, Family Lives
Chapter 9 Work Inside and Outside the Home
Chapter 10 Resisting Gender Violence
Chapter 11 State, Law, and Social Policy
Chapter 12 Religion and Spirituality
Chapter 13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures
Credits
Index
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