The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory

<p>At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men.<em> </em>This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.</p> <p>The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, coverin</p> <ul> <li>Epistemology and marginality</li> <li>Literary, visual and cultural representations</li> <li>Sexuality</li> <li>Macro and microeconomics of gender</li> <li>Conflict and peace. </li> </ul> The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think ‘theoretically’ is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. <br/> <br/> With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism<em>. </em><br/> <br/> It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.