Companion to women's and gender studies

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors -- Editor -- Managing Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Changing Field of Women's and Gender Studies -- Part I Introduction -- Part II The Diversity of Academic Fields and Institutional Formations -- Part III Science, Health, and Psychology -- Part IV Culture -- Part V Politics, Economics, and the Environment -- Part VI Social Movements -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part II Diversity of Academic Fields and Institutional Formations -- Chapter 2 Women's Studies -- Introduction -- Case 1: Women's Studies in the United States -- Case 2: Women's Studies in Turkey -- Case 3: South Korea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Gender Studies -- Gender Studies in Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- Precursors to Gender Studies -- Gender Scholarship During the Antislavery and Women's Suffrage Movements -- The Development of Gender Studies in the Social Sciences -- The Feminist Turn in Gender Literature -- Academic Feminism is Born -- Gender Studies and Gender Theory -- Intersectional Developments -- Queer Theory and the Categorical Challenge -- Cultural Logics and Status Expectations -- The Current State of Gender Theory: Multidimensional Frameworks -- Conclusion: Gender Studies and Gender Change -- References -- Chapter 4 Masculinities Studies -- Introduction -- Frameworks for Men's and Masculinities Studies -- Masculinities by Type -- Masculinity in Global Perspective -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Trans Studies -- Early Chronologies -- The Case of Agnes -- Mobilizations, 1960s-1980s -- Difference and Deviance -- Trans Rights: A Human Rights Issue -- Transfeminism -- In Closing -- Note -- References -- Part III Science, Health, and Psychology -- Chapter 6 Science, Technology, and Gender -- Introduction.

"Women's and Gender Studies is an ever-changing field of academic inquiry that was born out of women's movement organizing in Western countries within and outside colleges and universities in the late 1960s and 1970s. The story surrounding the development of Women's and Gender Studies is often told through a U.S.-centric lens; but it is incomplete or, even misguided, without acknowledging the diversity of sites outside the U.S. that helped shape the field both within and outside of the academy. The Companion to Women's and Gender Studies attempts to correct some of the gaps and misrepresentations of the field, broadly defined, including attention to international, postcolonial, intersectional, and interdisciplinary insights from scholars in different parts of the world"--