Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing - Paperback

by Christie Launius (Author), Holly Hassel (Author)

Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing is a textbook designed primarily for introduction to Women's and Gender Studies courses, with the intent of providing both a skill- and concept-based foundation in the field.

The third edition includes fully revised and expanded case studies and updated statistics; in addition, the content has been updated throughout to reflect significant news stories and cultural developments. The text is driven by a single key question: "What are the ways of thinking, seeing, and knowing that characterize Women's and Gender Studies and are valued by its practitioners?" This book illustrates four of the most critical concepts in Women's and Gender Studies--the social construction of gender, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and feminist praxis--and grounds these concepts in multiple illustrations.

Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies develops the key concepts and ways of thinking that students need to develop a deep understanding and to approach material like feminist scholars do, across disciplines.

Author Biography

Christie Launius is Associate Professor and Head of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department at Kansas State University. She coedited the Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2021) and serves as the book review editor for the Journal of Working-Class Studies.

Holly Hassel is Professor of English and affiliated faculty with the Women and Gender Studies program at North Dakota State University. Her scholarship has appeared in Feminist Teacher, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, Pedagogy, and Women's Studies. She is coauthor of A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women's and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms (2021).