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  • Abortion (e.g. reproductive rights, etc.)
  • Academe (e.g. teaching, research, etc.)
  • Aesthetics (e.g. issues of beauty, `quality,' etc.)
  • Affirmative Action
  • Age (e.g. issues of ageism, menopause, etc.)
  • Alienation
  • Androgyny
  • Anthropology (e.g. central theoretical issues concerning women and society, etc.)
  • Anti-feminism
  • Appropriation (e.g. of artistic endeavors, cultural expressions, etc.)
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture (e.g. issues of space and women, suburbanization and housing planning, etc.)
  • Art (e.g. central theoretical issues concerning women and society, etc.)
  • Attachment
  • Authoritarianism
  • Binaries (e.g. oppositional categories eg. male/female, whore/virgin, etc.)
  • Biography (e.g. issues of construction of individual, etc.)
  • Body (e.g. history, depiction, etc.)
  • Capitalism (e.g. issues of contradiction, exploitation, consumerism, fashion, advertising, etc.)
  • Center-Fringe Analysis
  • Child-rearing (e.g. issues of praxis, etc.)
  • Cinema (e.g. film theory, genres such as horror films, new "chick" films, etc.)
  • Civil Rights (e.g. issues of affirmative action, etc.)
  • Class Analysis (e.g. as it intersects with gender, race, etc.)
  • Classics
  • Collective Action (e.g. eg. conciousness raising groups, widespread political mvmts., etc.)
  • Colonialism (e.g. colonization of the intellect, of peoples, etc.)
  • Commodification (e.g. issues of objectification, devaluation and disillusionment, etc.)
  • Communications (e.g. on individual and mass levels, etc.)
  • Communism (e.g. its failures and successes in China, Cuba, the Former Soviet Union, etc.)
  • Conservatism (e.g. the New Right, fascism, traditionalism, etc.)
  • Critical Theory (e.g. the Frankfurt School, etc.)
  • Culture
  • Deconstructionism (e.g. Derrida, the Yale School, etc.)
  • Democracy (e.g. issues of significance for women, etc.)
  • Development Studies (e.g. issues of women-society nexus in developing countries, etc.)
  • Discourse (e.g. reception, active reader, etc.)
  • Discrimination (e.g. types of, issues of law, etc.)
  • Divorce
  • Domesticity (e.g. separation of public and private spheres, etc.)
  • Ecofeminism
  • Economics (e.g. sexual division of labor, modes of production, macroeconomics of housekeeping, economic development, etc.)
  • Ecriture
  • Education (e.g. e.g issues of gender-bias in schooling, credentialism, etc.)
  • Egalitarianism
  • Elitism
  • Emancipation
  • Employment (e.g. glass ceilings, wage differential, pink collar labor, etc.)
  • Enlightenment
  • Epistemology (e.g. issues of disciplinary boundaries, etc.)
  • Equal Rights Amendment
  • Eroticism (e.g. eg. erotica for women, etc.)
  • Essentialism
  • Ethics (e.g. issues of relativism, etc.)
  • Ethnicity
  • Eurocentrism (e.g. issues of `universalism,' `objectivity,' the `primitive,' etc, etc.)
  • Evolutionary theory (e.g. and its use in legitimating inferior status for women and minorities
  • Fairy Tales (e.g. as a vector for socialization, ideology, etc.)
  • False Consciousness
  • Family
  • Fashion (e.g. codes of dress and their influence on women and men, etc.)
  • Feminism (e.g. periodization, key concepts, schools of (e.g. thought, etc.)
  • Femininity
  • Feminization of poverty
  • Femme Fatale
  • Folk Tales (e.g. as a vector for socialization, etc.)
  • Fourth World (e.g. indigenous peoples, etc.)
  • Freedom (e.g. issues of determinism, will, etc.)
  • French Feminism
  • Functionalism
  • Gender (e.g. domesticity, femininity, motherhood, masculinity, etc.)
  • Globalism
  • Goddess Worship (e.g. historical significance, current revival, etc.)
  • Grammatology
  • Health (e.g. the politics of funding research on breast cancer, gender determined definitions of illness, etc.)
  • Hegemony (e.g. cultural authorities, ideological hegemony, etc.)
  • Heterosexuality
  • History (e.g. issues of historiography, monastic scholasticism, etc.)
  • Homosexuality (e.g. issues of homophobia, etc.)
  • Human Rights (e.g. from various perspectives: international law, the West, developing nations, etc.)
  • Humanism
  • Idealism
  • Ideology (e.g. issues of legitimation, symbols, relationship to material culture, etc.)
  • Imperialism
  • Intelligence
  • Intelligentsia
  • Infanticide
  • Intimacy
  • Language (e.g. issues of sex encoding, containment, dominance, etc.)
  • Law (e.g. central issues of theory and praxis in North America, Western Europe, etc.)
  • Literary Theory
  • Literature (e.g. central theoretical issues, etc.)
  • Liberalism
  • Love (e.g. issues of ideology, historical assumptions, etc.)
  • Marginalization (e.g. center-fringe analysis, Third World, Fourth World, primitivism, exoticism, etc.)
  • Marriage (e.g. historical forms of and laws related to, etc.)
  • Marxism (e.g. Karl Marx's theories and relationships to feminism, etc.)
  • Masculinity
  • Mass Media (e.g. as a socialization vector, etc.)
  • Mass Entertainment (e.g. cinema, television, radio, humor, etc. as socialization vectors, etc.)
  • Materialism
  • Matriarchy
  • Metaphysics
  • Misogyny
  • Modernism
  • Motherhood
  • Music
  • Mythology/Folklore (e.g. women in classical, Northern and Eastern European and non-European, etc.)
  • Nation
  • Nationalism
  • Nature/Natural
  • Neo-colonialism
  • Neo-Marxism (e.g. Althusser, Critical School, etc.)
  • Objectivity
  • Patriarchy (e.g. phallocentrism, etc.)
  • Periodization (e.g. eg. Victorian, Renaissance, Twenties, Enlightenment, etc.)
  • Phallogocentrism
  • Phallus
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy (e.g. existentialism, etc.)
  • Political Economy (e.g. central issues of theory and praxis concerning women and society, etc.)
  • Political Consciousness (e.g. issues of consciousness raising, etc.)
  • Political Participation
  • Popular Culture
  • Pornography
  • Positivism
  • Postmodernism
  • Poststructuralism
  • Power
  • Pre-history
  • Prostitution (e.g. cultural determinants, political and economic significance, etc.)
  • Psychoanalysis (e.g. from Freud to Lacan, Kristeva, etc.)
  • Psychology (e.g. including object relations, etc.)
  • Psychopathology (e.g. cultural dimensions of depression, self-image, masochism, anorexia, etc.)
  • Querelle des Femmes
  • Racism (e.g. as it intersects with gender, etc.)
  • Rape (e.g. issues of social significance, weapon of war, etc.)
  • Rationalism
  • Reader Response Theory
  • Realism
  • Reception Theory
  • Religion (e.g. issues of ascetism; androcentrism; the New Right and religion; the theological position of women in Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Paganism, Biblical revisionists, etc.)
  • Revolution (e.g. revolution versus reform, etc.)
  • Representation (e.g. the politics of representation, the body, fetishism, etc.).
  • Reproduction
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Revisionism (e.g. in history and academic disciplines in general, etc.)
  • Rites of Passage (e.g. genital mutilation, etc.)
  • Romance (e.g. from Roman to Middle Ages to current novels, etc.)
  • Romanticism
  • Science
  • Sex Segregation (e.g. purdah, gynaecium, etc.)
  • Sexism
  • Sexual Division of Labor
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Sexuality (e.g. issues of eroticism and repression,and sexual relations, etc.)
  • Slavery
  • Socialism
  • Socialization (e.g. vectors of socialization, central issues, etc.)
  • Social Change
  • Social Control
  • Social Stratification (e.g. egalitarianism, communalism, SES, etc.)
  • Sociobiology
  • Sociology (e.g. central theoretical issues, etc.)
  • Spectatorship (e.g. in cinema, arts, etc.)
  • Sports
  • State (e.g. the State in modern capitalist societies, etc.)
  • Stereotype (e.g. issues of patriarchal imagery--such as femme fatale, virago, virgin, whore, vagina dentata, relationship to nature, etc.)
  • Structuralism
  • Subjectivity
  • Surrealism (e.g. ideal of equality of the sexes, etc.)
  • Symbols (e.g. woman as symbol, etc.)
  • Technology (e.g. implications for liberation, oppression, etc.)
  • Theory (e.g. problems of elitism, etc.)
  • Third World
  • Transvestitism (e.g. parodies of stereotypical feminine, stage traditions of male performers in female roles, etc.)
  • Utopia (e.g. and living experiments of nineteenth century, communes of sixties, etc.)
  • Violence
  • War
  • Witchcraft (e.g. witches, witch hunts, etc.)
  • Womanism
  • Women's Movement
  • Women's Studies
  • Worldview (e.g. issues of cosmology, etc.)
 
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