Faced with an increasingly diverse student population, an expanding
field of gender scholarship, and an academic emphasis on
multidisciplinarity, social science professors often struggle to
address and integrate such a broad array of gender issues in their
courses. This book addresses that challenge by increasing students'
understandings of gender relations in multiple social fields across
time and space. Gender Relations in Global Perspective is truly
multidisciplinary. It is partially drawn from the work of
sociologists, but articles written by gender scholars from the
disciplines of cultural studies, history, political science,
geography, and literary theory are also included. The readings
examine historically persistent, cross-culturally relevant, and
empirically grounded concerns such as men's position in the family
and women's relationship to work, media, and the global economy, as
well as the gendered problems of violence, sexuality and
reproduction, and racism. This book presents an engaging range of
comparative and cross-cultural gender analyses from various world
regions, including the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia,
Europe, the Americas, and Africa. As the articles are dialogically
situated in this text, readers will be able to analyse gender
similarities and differences around the globe and learn about the
diversity of gender experiences across cultures and regions. This
range of analyses demonstrates how a global perspective enriches
feminist analyses. Students will quickly learn that to investigate
gender dynamics adequately, attention must be paid simultaneously
to the processes of racialization, class, colonialism and
imperalism, and sexuality that interweave with gender to produce
complex forms of oppression.
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