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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Critical Introduction to the Field
2. Theorizing Lived Experiences
3. Identity Terms
4. Conceptualizing Structures of Power
5. Social Constructionism
6. Intersectionality
References: Unit I
7. Introduction: Feminist Movements
8. 19th Century Feminist Movements
9. Early to Late 20th Century Feminist Movements
10. Third Wave and Queer Feminist Movements
11. Transnational Feminisms
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt and Kiana Anderson
References: Unit 2
12. Introduction: Binary Systems
13. The Sex/Gender/Sexuality System
14. Gender and Sex – Transgender and Intersex
15. Sexualities
16. Masculinities
17. Race
18. Class
19. Alternatives to Binary Systems
References: Unit 3
20. Introduction: Institutions, Cultures, and Structures
21. Women and Education
Bureau of International Information Programs, United States Department of State
22. The Family
23. Chapter 10: Women and the Media
24. Media
25. Chapter 3: Women and Health
26. Medicine, Health, and Reproductive Justice
27. The State, Law, and the Prison System
28. Chapter 7: Women in Power and Decisionmaking
29. Chapter 8: Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
30. Chapter 5: Women, Girls and Armed Conflict
31. Chapter 9: Human Rights of Women
32. Chapter 12: Rights of the Girl Child
33. Chapter 4: Violence Against Women
34. Intersecting Institutions Case Study: The Struggle to End Gendered Violence and Violence Against Women
35. Chapter 11: Women and the Environment
36. Religion in Women's Lives Worldwide
Shannon Garvin
References: Unit 4
37. Introduction: Gender and Work in the Global Economy
38. Chapter 6: Women in the Economy
39. Chapter 1: Women and Poverty
40. Gender and Work in the US
41. Gender and the US Welfare State
42. Transnational Production and Globalization
43. Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Labor in the Global Economy
References: Unit 5
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Copyright © 2017 by Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Sonny Nordmarken is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.