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Intro -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson -- The development of women's and gender studies -- Challenging futures? -- Conclusion -- 1: CONCEPTUALISING GENDER -- Introduction -- The idea of gender -- The sex/gender binary -- Sex as a social construction -- Feminist gender theory -- Gender roles -- Gender as hierarchy -- Intersectionality -- Postmodern theories of gender -- Gender and sexuality: feminist and queer theories -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2: FEMINIST AND GENDER THEORIES Sally Hines -- Introduction -- Early feminist perspectives: radical, Marxist, dual systems theory and liberal feminism -- The recognition of difference: deconstructionist feminist approaches -- Post-structuralist and queer feminist theories -- Criticisms of deconstructionism -- Building common ground -- Intersectionality -- Global and post-colonial feminisms -- Transgender feminism -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3: GENDER, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM Nickie Charles -- Introduction -- Feminist social movements -- The birth of women's and gender studies -- New social movements -- Cultural politics -- The temporality of feminist activism -- Case study one: young women's feminist activism in the UK -- Case study two: #MeToo and hashtag feminism -- Feminism and political institutions -- The 'masculine blueprint' -- Quotas -- Changing politics -- Policy change -- Working environment -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4: GENDER-SENSITIVE METHOD/OLOGIES Gayle Letherby -- Introduction -- Taking gender seriously -- Different differences -- Counting, quoting and other interesting stuff -- Gender-sensitive researchers -- Epistemological concerns -- Influence and impact -- Conclusion -- Further reading.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge -- Part I. Over the Edge -- The Impossibility of Women's Studies -- Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure -- Part II. Edged OUT -- Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections -- Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror -- Transfeminism and the Future of Gender -- Part III. Edging IN -- Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies -- Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview -- Success and Its Failures -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index