FEMINIST ISSUES : RACE , CLASS AND SEXUALITY

Feminist Issues positions women's issues at the forefront of Canadian concerns.  Authors explore the range and diversity of contemporary feminist perspectives as seen through the lens of race, class, sexuality, disability, and poverty. Each chapter addresses questions and social problems that have received little attention in Canadian writing

Feminist Issues is a contributed text, which addresses feminist and women's issues in Canada. The editors, Nancy Mandell and Jennifer Johnson, have excellent and well-regarded reputations in the area of women's and gender studies. The contributors for the new edition have addressed developing issues in the study of feminist theory as it applies to gender, sexuality, race, and class.

KEY TOPICS:

Theorizing Women's Oppression and Social Change: Liberal, Socialist, Radical, and Postmodern Feminisms; Race, Indigeneity, and Feminism; Transnational Feminism; Stitch the Bitch; Constructing Gender, Regulating Sexuality; Through the Mirror of Beauty Culture; Men, Masculinities, and Feminism; Violence Against Women in Canada; Challenging Old Age: Women's Next Revolution; Mothers' Maintenance of Families through Market and Family Care Relations; Women and Education; Health As a Feminist Issue

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