Feminist Frontiers - Softcover

Taylor,Verta; Whittier,Nancy; Rupp,Leila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073196088 ISBN 13: 9780073196084

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Synopsis

The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual orientation and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With classic and contemporary readings that cut across disciplines and generational lines, Feminist Frontiers presents the full diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their interconnected differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in a global context and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. A sociological analysis opens each of the four parts and eleven sections of the book. Boxed inserts featuring personal stories, news articles, and other items from popular culture complement the readings.

About this title

About the Author:

Verta Taylor is Professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty member in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She teaches courses on gender and sexuality, feminism, and social movements and has won numerous teaching awards, including the Ohio State University Distinguished Teaching Award, a Multicultural Teaching Award from the Office of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Services, and a University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award. Taylor is the author of 15 books and edited volumes and over 100 scholarly articles.  Her books include Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help and Postpartum Depression, coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s, co-editor of The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, and eight editions of Feminist Frontiers.  Taylor's scholarship has been recognized by numerous awards:  Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaretreceived the 2005 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association.  In recognition of her lifetime of scholarship on women, Taylor was the 2011 recipient of the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award, and she has been honored by Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) with its Mentoring Award and the Feminist Lectureship Award.  In 2008, she also received the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award for her scholarship on social movements and the Simon and Gagnon Award for her career of scholarship in sexualities. 

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073196088
• ISBN 13: 9780073196084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576