ISBN:
9780130404619
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 p)
Series Statement:
Feminist Perspectives
Series Statement:
Feminist Perspectives Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Littlewood, Barbara Feminist Perspectives on Sociology
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminist theory
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Series editors' preface -- 1 Feminist perspectives on sociology -- Chapter outline -- Many sociologies, many feminisms -- Feminism in sociology: influences -- Feminism and sociology: developments and directions -- Summary -- Further reading -- 2 The epistemological challenge -- Chapter outline -- Introduction -- The theoretical background: functionalism and conflict tiieory -- Conflict theory, knowledge and ideology -- Feminist critiques of sociological knowledge -- Feminist empiricism
Abstract:
Feminist standpoint -- Academics and activists: the politics of research -- Useful knowledge -- Summary -- Further reading -- 3 Divisions of labour -- Chapter outline -- Feminist sociology in the 1970s -- 'Production' and 'reproduction' in sociology -- The social and domestic division of labour: the historical background -- Women and employment: contemporary issues -- Features of women's employment -- Factors contributing to women's employment patterns -- Theories of women's work -- The feminisation of the labour force -- Moving beyond the 'West': gender and colonialism
Abstract:
The gendering of the global economy -- Work and non-work -- The demise of the male breadwinner -- The 'family-friendly' public sector? -- Summary -- Further reading -- 4 Patriarchy: public and private -- Chapter outline -- 'Patriarchy': radical and Marxist feminism -- Patriarchy as ideological or material -- Where is patriarchy? -- Patriarchy's relation to racial domination -- Is patriarchy a system? -- The state and patriarchy -- Violence and the state -- Summary -- Further reading -- 5 Body politics -- Chapter outline -- The background to feminist interest in body politics
Abstract:
Resisting naturalisation -- Early campaigns -- Sexed bodies and history -- Women's experiences of their bodies: medicine -- Bodies and physical activities: sport, dance and fitness -- Getting 'the look' -- Racialised bodies -- White, male bodies and deviance from the norm -- The dominated and the subversive body -- Challenging domination -- Summary -- Further reading -- 6 Living in a post world? -- Chapter outline -- Gendering modernity -- Gendering modernist movements -- Postmodernity -- Critique or condition? -- Sociology and postmodernism and feminism
Abstract:
Postmodernism, feminism and cultural studies -- Postfeminism -- Academic postfeminism -- Postmodernism and feminism -- Conclusion: last posts? -- Summary -- Further reading -- 7 Postcolonialism and feminism -- Chapter outline -- International and sexual divisions of labour: colonialism -- Gender relations in the colonial world -- International and sexual divisions of labour: postcolonial conditions -- Postcolonialism as critique -- Postcolonialism and feminism -- Summary -- Further reading -- 8 Globalising feminisms -- Chapter outline -- 'Globalisation' in social sciences
Abstract:
Globalisation and postcolonialism: condition and critique
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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