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Launius and Hassel scaffold feminist analysis in a way that makes its underlying components highly accessible to novice students. This textbook provides students with a critical framework, while giving the instructor the flexibility to select companion texts for each of the threshold concepts.

Ann Mattis , Assistant Professor of English and Gender, Womens, and Sexuality Studies, University of WisconsinSheboygan

Launius and Hassel are the mediums of metacognitive awareness in the field of Womens and Gender Studies, distilling threshold concepts so that students can become active agents in critiquing and shaping our gendered world. This book should be foundational in any Womens and Gender Studies program.

Tara Wood , Assistant Professor of English and instructor in Gender Studies, Rockford University

Threshold Concepts is my go-to foundational text for both teaching Womens and Gender Studies classes and facilitating Safe Zone training. The extensive end of chapter questions and learning roadblocks sections help students process and apply the information. I appreciate that the authors succinctly frame and contextualize complex gender studies topics.

Christopher Henry Hinesley , Associate Director, Womens and Gender Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology

Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies

Threshold Concepts in Womens and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing is a textbook designed primarily for introduction to Womens and Gender Studies courses with the intent of providing both skills- and concept-based foundation in the field. The text is driven by a single key question: What are the ways of thinking, seeing, and knowing that characterize Womens and Gender Studies and are valued by its practitioners? Rather than taking a topical approach, Threshold Concepts develops the key concepts and ways of thinking that students need in order to develop a deep understanding and to approach material like feminist scholars do, across disciplines. This book illustrates four of the most critical concepts in Womens and Gender Studiesthe social construction of gender, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and feminist praxisand grounds these concepts in multiple illustrations.

The second edition includes a significant number of updates, revisions, and expansions: the case studies in all five chapters have been revised and expanded, as have the end of chapter elements, statistics have been updated, and numerous references to significant news stories and cultural developments of the past three years have been added. Finally, many more callbacks to previous chapters have been incorporated throughout the textbook in order to remind students to carry forward and build upon what they have learned about each threshold concept even as they move on to a new one.

Christie Launius directs and teaches in the Womens and Gender Studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She has taught the introductory course for over 20 years at six different institutions. She is also active in the field of working-class studies; she is the book review editor for the Journal of Working-Class Studies and served as president of the association from 2014 to 2015.

Holly Hassel has taught in the Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies program and the English department at the University of Wisconsin Colleges since 2004. Her work on teaching and learning in womens studies has been published in multiple books and journals. She is editor of the journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College.

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Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies

Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing

Second Edition

Christie Launius and Holly Hassel

Second edition published 2018
by Routledge
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First edition published by Routledge 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Launius, Christie, author. | Hassel, Holly, author.
Title: Threshold concepts in women's and gender studies : ways of seeing, thinking, and knowing / Christie Launius, Holly Hassel.
Description: Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017043817 | ISBN 9781138304321 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138304352 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780203730218 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women's studies. | Feminism. | Sex role.
Classification: LCC HQ1180 .L38 2018 | DDC 305.42dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043817

ISBN: 978-1-138-30432-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-30435-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-73021-8 (ebk)

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Contents

CHAPTER 2 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER

This chapter focuses on distinctions between sex and gender, exploring how gender is socially constructed, and to what ends, as well as how social constructions of gender are shaped by issues of race, class, age, ability, and sexual identity.

CHAPTER 3 PRIVILEGE AND OPPRESSION

Systems of privilege and oppression profoundly shape individual lives. This chapter explains how these systems play out via ideology and societal institutions, and are internalized by individuals.

CHAPTER 4 INTERSECTIONALITY

Intersectionality is at the heart of feminist analysis. This chapter explores how different groups benefit from or are disadvantaged by institutional structures, as well as how overlapping categories of identity profoundly shape our experiences within institutions.

CHAPTER 5 FEMINIST PRAXIS

This chapter unpacks how Womens and Gender Studies prioritizes social change and discusses strategies for bringing about that change.

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