Selection of over 140 readings in women's studies in fourteen sections: feminist social theory: psychological and psychoanalytic theory: cross-cultural and historical perspectives on women's lives: education and work: marriage and motherhood: sexuality: the law: crime and deviance: politics and the state: science, medicine and reproductive technology: language and gender: feminist literary criticism: representations of women in the media.
This reader demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. It includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policymaking. Table of contents on: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631233008