Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality, 6th edition

Feminist Issues positions women's issues at the forefront of Canadian concerns. Authors explore the range and diversity of contemporary feminist perspectives as seen through the lens of race, class, sexuality, disability, and poverty. Each chapter addresses questions and social problems that have received little attention in Canadian writing.

Feminist Issues is a contributed text, which addresses feminist and women's issues in Canada. The editors, Nancy Mandell and Jennifer Johnson, have excellent and well-regarded reputations in the area of women's and gender studies. The contributors for the new edition have addressed developing issues in the study of feminist theory as it applies to gender, sexuality, race, and class.

While the text is aimed at the new undergraduate reader, seasoned students and practitioners of feminism(s), anti-oppression, and related areas of study will also find rich and engaging discussions of current feminist topics. No matter who you are, where you are or what your life circumstances, young girls and women experience oppression and omission. Sensitive to differences in age, gender, sexuality, language, region, and ethnicity, in this book our authors examine both continuing and new challenges facing women.

Content Highlights

• One of the most important features of this book is that authors write the material for this collection, drawing upon their own original research and assessment of their fields as they stand today.
• They have sifted through mountains of literature, firsthand interviews, popular media, policy and legal documents, and records of individual/collective experiences to distill for the reader some key ideas about their topic.

New to this Edition

• Significantly revised, the new edition provides an in-depth analysis of key issues facing women in Canada. Politics, sexuality, social media, intimate relationships, life course challenges, and institutional barriers are some of the issues the authors address.
• Includes nine new authors from across Canada who have singly or collaboratively authored new material for this introductory text. These wonderful new contributors broach the topics of critical race and Indigenous feminisms, transnational feminist theory, critical masculinity studies, sexuality and gender identity, violence against women, and health.
• Returning contributors have substantially revised and updated five chapters within the thematic areas of education, aging, beauty culture, mothering and work, education, and historical trajectories of select types of feminism. Every chapter is theoretically grounded and contains contemporary examples.