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Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality
Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements.
Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism's political and intellectual debatesfrom the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these fr
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An exhilarating read that sacrifices neither accessibility, depth, nor acuity in its assemblage of keywords. This book is a scholarly and curatorial feat that will be referenced (and enjoyed) widely. * Audra Simpson, Columbia University *
Keyword essays examine such concepts as justice, performativity, and biology, among many others, through a meaningful exploration of each concept's role in the existing scholarship and the debates and conversations surrounding it…a must-read for a wide audience. -- C. Pinto * Choice *
