Gender Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach (eng)

Woodward, Kath

ISBN 10: 1800373945 / ISBN 13: 9781800373945

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025

Seller Inventory # 7e5a4c83a8da547f3b2712f3f5273545

Synopsis:

This book explores the interrelationship between gender and multidisciplinarity, and the different ways in which gender informs the work of diverse subject areas. Using facet methodology, chapters examine disciplines in conversation with each other to produce new ideas and ways of thinking about contemporary theories and politics of gender.

The book moves through five core aspects of gender: routine everyday practices, critiquing power and politics, gendered histories and herstories, bodies and embodiment, and laws which operate at meta and micro levels. Chapters draw on a wide range of examples from the climate crisis and medical science to social sciences and culture, engaging with the varied meanings of gender and questioning dominant assumptions. The authors argue that focusing on multidisciplinarity allows us to consider how disciplines have become gendered in terms of who participates in the discipline and analyse implicitly gendered assumptions about what counts as knowledge or even as data.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is an invigorating read for gender studies scholars from undergraduate to post-graduate level, particularly those focusing on interdisciplinarity in the field. With an exploration of gender across a vast array of disciplines, it is also of interest to scholars across sociology, anthropology, philosophy, politics, media studies, psychology and economics.

About the Author: Kath Woodward, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, The Open University, UK and Sophie Woodward, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK

Bibliographic Details

Title: Gender Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach...
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new