Overview
Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender studies, Gender: Matter focuses on matter and its relation to gender. Organized around four parts totaling 28 chapters, the volume maps out feminist engagements with matter and materiality. The volume approaches matter not from a natural sciences perspective but from a humanities and social science perspective, asking what role matter plays in feminist, queer, and other social and political theories. The volume also grapples with how changes to matter, or the biophysical world, affect what sex and gender may mean in the twenty-first century. Chapters are written by eminent scholars, are peer reviewed, include illustrations, and offer bibliographies to encourage further research. The volume concludes with a glossary and a comprehensive index.
Features & Benefits
- GENDER: MATTER introduces students to the relationship of matter and gender studies, specifically focusing on feminist engagements with matter and materiality.
- The primer to the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, GENDER: SOURCES, PERSPECTIVES, AND METHODOLOGIES, is followed by GENDER: MATTER and other volumes that are dedicated to such broad themes as Animals, God, Laughter, Love, Nature, Space, Time, and War.
- All chapters in GENDER: MATTER are newly commissioned and hence based on fresh and topical research and debates from a variety of fields--including philosophy, archeology, literature, art, social sciences, (old and new) media, history, economics, politics, science, and religion.
- Chapters are written by eminent scholars and are peer reviewed.
- The volume will include a glossary, bibliographies of worked cited and suggestions for further reading, approximately 36 relevant images/charts/graphs, and an index.
