ISBN:
9780044423256
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 243 Seiten
Edition:
[Nachdruck]
Keywords:
Intersektionalität
;
Geschlecht
;
Klassengesellschaft
;
Ethnizität
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Do writings about ethnicity, class and gender form a 'holy trinity' or challenge previous unidimensional analyses?Intersexions accepts the triple perspective but goes further. One aim is to understand the processes by which relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted. Intersexions also examines modes of representation: within social theory, feminism, development theory and discussions of capitalism and postcolonialism, as well as dominant ideological notions of caste, domesticity and 'success'.The writers' approaches are all critical but concerned also with providing alternatives. Comparative and specific analyses are combined, attention is paid to the written and spoken material of the people 'represented' and their own positions as commentators examined. Topics range from discussions of family ideology and paid and domestic work, to analyses of writings by Aboriginals, Vanuatuans and second generation Greek Australians and critiques of the cultural construction of gender and ethnicity in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.Themes recur and overlap. Unitary categories are questioned and the processes by which relations described as 'class', 'ethnic', 'cultural' and 'gender' intersect and interact are demonstrated
Note:
First published in 1991 by Allen & Unwin
,
ContributorsPreface1 Moving in from the margins: Gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India - Kalpana Ram2 Ethno-religious communities and gender divisions in Bangladesh: Women as boundary markers - Santi Rozario3 Housemaids: The effects of gender and culture on the internal and international migration of Indonesian women - Kathy Robinson4 The politics of difference: Feminism, colonialism and decolonisation in Vanuatu - Margaret Jolly5 Through their own eyes: An interpretation of Aboriginal women's writing - Jan Larbalestier6 Representing the 'second generation': subjects, objects and ways of knowing - Gill Bottomley7 Multiculturalism and feminism - Jeannie Martin8 The family: in the national interest? - Marie de Lepervanche9 Gender, class and ethnic relations: The domestic and work experiences of Italian migrant women in Australia - Ellie Vasta10 Domesticity and Latin American women in Australia - Vanda Moraes-Gorecki11 Racism, sexism and sociology - Jan PettmanNotesBibliographyIndex
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