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This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies by examining U.S. women's lives in a global context and across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide updated statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the readings. Each chapter includes "Questions to Frame Your Reading" and “Suggestions for Taking Action” to help students link their knowledge and understanding to their own lives and apply it to the world around them.
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This work is designed to serve as a textbook for an introductory women's studies course at the undergraduate level. In putting together the text, the authors (former co-chairs of the women's studies department at Hamilton College) aimed to give a sense of the broad range of women's experience in terms of class, race, culture, nation, disability, age, and sexual orientation within the wider framework of security and sustainability; provide an understanding of theory; and maintain a connection to the field's roots in the women's liberation movement. Chapters discuss bodies and body image; sexuality; health; violence against women; relationships, families, and households; work, wages, and welfare; women and the global economy; crime and criminalization; the military, war, and peace; the environment; and theory, vision, and action. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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