With in-depth coverage of major theoretical approaches and a wide array of high-interest case studies, this fresh, up-to-date survey of classical and contemporary perspectives explores the complex connections between gender and identity in the modern world.
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part One: Theorizing Gender Identity: Classical and Contemporary Theories
1. Classical Approaches and Their Critiques
2. Post-structuralist and Postmodernist Approaches to Gender Theory
3. Theories of Identity and Difference
Part
Two: The Politics of Gender Identity
4. Gender and the Politics of Belonging: Place, Nationhood, Culture, and Globalization
5. Contradictory Discourses: Religion and Spirituality, Sex and Sexuality
6. Gender Movements and Media Representations
Part Three: The Practices of
Gender Identity
7. Public and Private Selves and Gender Relations
8. Understanding the Relationship Between the Private and the Public
9. Education and Schooling, Sport and Leisure
10. The Body: Impacts of Violence and Aging
Part Four: New Directions in Gender
Identity
11. The Contingent Self in the Postmodern, Globalized Age
Glossary
References
Index
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Stephen Whitehead is visiting professor of gender studies at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan, and formerly senior lecturer in education in the School of Public Policy and Professional Practice at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. He has published extensively in the field of gender,
including both popular and more academic titles. Stephen's books have been translated into 12 languages, and some of his more mainstream titles have received worldwide media attention and publicity. In addition to book publications, Stephen has published several dozen journal articles and book
chapters.
Anissa Talahite is a lecturer in women's and gender studies in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Roy Moodley is associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of
Toronto and director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has published journal articles and book chapters on multicultural counselling and psychotherapy, masculinities and race, and culture and psychotherapy.
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