Working Out: New Directions For Women's Studies

Hilary Hinds, Ann Phoenix, Jackie Stacey

Psychology Press, 1992 - Social Science - 208 pages

Addresses issues of concern in the area of women's studies, aiming to offer fresh perspectives on sexuality, paid work, the development process, equal opportunities legislation, lesbian history and women's writing. The book is also concerned with the politics and practice of women's studies.

About the author

Hinds is Lecturer in English at the University of Lancaster. Her research and teaching focus principally on seventeenth-century literature, and in particular on women's writing from the radical sects.

Ann is professor of Social and Developmental Psychology at The Open University.

Jackie Stacey is author of "Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship". Formerly with the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, she is currently with the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick

Bibliographic information

• Title: Working Out: New Directions For Women's Studies; Gender and Society Series : Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present; Gender and society / Gender and society; Women's studies network
• Editors: Hilary Hinds, Ann Phoenix, Jackie Stacey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1992
• ISBN: 0750700432, 9780750700436
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Women's Studies