A Companion to Gender Studies presents a 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. The book is organized thematically and each chapter gives insightful consideration to the differing views on its topic, and also clarifies each contributor's own position.
This collection of essays brings together research on the changing of understandings of honour in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s.