Welcome to the companion website for Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader! The book is intended as a tool for teaching and learning the debates, analytics, and epistemologies that have animated the field with the goal of creating spaces for students to practice what it means to talk and act in feminist ways.
This book differs from all other Feminist Studies textbooks. First, it is the only textbook to center the work of scholars with PhDs in Feminist Studies. Second, it is the only textbook edited by scholars with PhDs in the field. Third, it is the only textbook to feature the kinds of foundational texts that have formed the basis of feminist theory alongside original and contemporary texts that demonstrate both the reach of and contestations around those foundational texts. This focus on Feminist Studies as a field informs the shape of the book in deep and profound ways; we believe that Feminist Studies classes differ when we approach Feminist Studies as a field, rather than simply as a collection of thinking about gender and sexuality, and the attendant ways of being that transpire along the lines of race, class, ability, geography, and so on.
This companion website provides additional, supplementary materials for teaching and discussing Introduction to Feminist Studies. Compiled primarily by the book’s editors and authors, these materials include assignment ideas, lesson plans, relevant videos, and discussion questions that are useful for classes at various levels—from high school to undergraduate to graduate.
