Companion to Feminist Studies

The Companion to Feminist Studies is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Through the chapters of this book, contributors of diverse academic, national, and activist backgrounds discuss contemporary research and themes within the interdisciplinary field of Feminist Studies including international, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives. Comprehensive and accessible, this volume is organized around three different dimensions of Feminist Studies, providing a broad overview of the rich history and the multitude of approaches, theories, concepts, and debates central to this dynamic interdisciplinary field. The Companion first explores ten theoretical frameworks, including feminist epistemologies examining Marxist and Socialist Feminism, the activism of radical feminists, the contributions of Black feminist thought, and interrelated approaches to the fluidity of gender and sexuality. Subsequent chapters focus on methodologies and analytical frameworks developed by feminist scholars, including empiricists, anthropologists, economists, ethnographers, cultural analysts, and historiographers. The Companion also offers a detailed discussion of the many ways in which pedagogy, political ecology, social justice, globalization, and other areas within Feminist Studies are shaped by feminism in practice. Companion to Feminist Studies is an essential resource for students, scholars, and researchers in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, and diverse interdisciplines and disciplines such as science studies, critical race studies, anthropology, psychology, history, political science, and sociology, as well as practitioners, policy makers, activists, and advocates working in the field. It offers a major contribution to scholarship on both the theoretical foundations and contemporary debates.