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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The Inventi on of Women's Studies -- Women's Studies: What Is It? -- Feminist Roots of Women's Studies: A Brief Look Back -- Women's Studies and the University -- Women's Studies Grows from Knowledge Outside the Academy -- Changing the Classroom as Part of Changing the University-First Steps -- What Is a Woman? And Other Early Questions -- Nature Versus Culture -- Women's Studies Around the World Broadens the Questioning -- Conclusion: Its Meaning Is Change -- Note -- Sugested Reading -- Chapter 2: The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity -- From Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity -- Women's Studies' Early Critical Edge -- Women's Studies New Critique of Reason -- Androgyny -- Women's Studies and the "L" Word -- Margins and Centers -- Mad Women in the Attic -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3: Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender -- Contests over Diference -- Race and the Birth of Intersectionality -- Ethnicity and Intersectionality -- Class and Intersectionality -- Pluralism and Its Critics -- Equality Versus Diference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 4: Global Agendas -- The Legacy of Empire and Post-Colonialism -- The Post-Colonial Perspective -- Women in the Global Economy, Past and Present -- Women and Neo-liberalism -- Women's Migration in a Global Age -- Women and Poverty -- Development and Women's Poverty -- Orientalism and Its Chalenges -- Women's Global Subjectivity -- Global Feminist Activism and Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 5: Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace -- Securitization and Women's Activism -- Confronting Violence -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 6: Women's Studies and the Question of Gender.

Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women's studies and feminism, exploring the global development of the subject over time, and highlighting its relevance in the contemporary world. Reflecting the diversity of the field, core themes include:the interdisciplinary nature of women's studiescore feminist theories and the feminist agendaissues of intersectionality: women, race, class and genderwomen

The invention of women's studies -- The foundations of interdisciplinarity -- Intersectionality and difference : race, class, and gender -- Global agendas -- Violence, militarization, security, and peace -- Women¿s studies and the question of gender -- Feminist theories and methods -- Embodiment and sexuality -- Classrooms, controversies, and citizenship -- The future of women's studies in our information age.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The Inventi on of Women's Studies -- Women's Studies: What Is It? -- Feminist Roots of Women's Studies: A Brief Look Back -- Women's Studies and the University -- Women's Studies Grows from Knowledge Outside the Academy -- Changing the Classroom as Part of Changing the University-First Steps -- What Is a Woman? And Other Early Questions -- Nature Versus Culture -- Women's Studies Around the World Broadens the Questioning -- Conclusion: Its Meaning Is Change -- Note -- Sugested Reading -- Chapter 2: The Foundations of Interdisciplinarity -- From Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity -- Women's Studies' Early Critical Edge -- Women's Studies New Critique of Reason -- Androgyny -- Women's Studies and the "L" Word -- Margins and Centers -- Mad Women in the Attic -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3: Intersectionality and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender -- Contests over Diference -- Race and the Birth of Intersectionality -- Ethnicity and Intersectionality -- Class and Intersectionality -- Pluralism and Its Critics -- Equality Versus Diference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 4: Global Agendas -- The Legacy of Empire and Post-Colonialism -- The Post-Colonial Perspective -- Women in the Global Economy, Past and Present -- Women and Neo-liberalism -- Women's Migration in a Global Age -- Women and Poverty -- Development and Women's Poverty -- Orientalism and Its Chalenges -- Women's Global Subjectivity -- Global Feminist Activism and Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 5: Violence, Militarization, Security, and Peace -- Securitization and Women's Activism -- Confronting Violence -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 6: Women's Studies and the Question of Gender.

Introduction : Israeli women's studies / Esther Fuchs -- The Zionist women's movement in Palestine, 1911-1927 : a sociological analysis / Dafna N. Izraeli -- Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the winding road to Sejera / Shulamit Reinharz -- Daughters of the nation : between the public and the private spheres in pre-state Israel / Deborah S. Bernstein -- From zero to hero : masculinity in Jewish nationalism / Tamar Mayer -- Bearers of the collective : women and religious legislation in Israel / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Paradoxes and social boundaries : ultra-orthodox Jewish women and their world / Tamar El-Or -- The ritualized body : brides, purity, and the mikveh / Susan Sered -- The status of women in kibbutz society / Judith Buber Agassi -- Growing up female and Palestinian / Manar Hassan ; translated by Sharon Beéman -- Between the flag and the banner : dilemmas in the political life of Israeli women / Yael Yishai -- Homefront and battlefront : the status of Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel / Hanna Herzog -- Homefront as battlefront : gender, military occupation, and violence against women / Simona Sharoni -- Citizens of the state and political women / Ayala Emmett -- Gender performance in a changing military : women soldiers in "masculine" roles / Orna Sasson-Levy -- Amalia Kahana-Carmon and contemporary Hebrew women's fiction / Esther Fuchs -- Making the silences speak in Israeli cinema / Ella Shohat -- The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin -- Feminism under siege : the vicarious selves of Israeli women writers / Yael S. Feldman