ISBN:
0521874416
,
0521697255
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9780521874410
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9780521697255
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 288 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Future of Gender
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminist theory
;
Social justice
;
Equality
;
Sex role
;
Gender identity
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Provides a major new assessment of the effectiveness of the concept of gender
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figure; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Structure of the book; Part I: Reorienting the feminist imagination; Part II: Variations on the theme of gender; Part III: Gender and political practice; Part I Reorienting the feminist imagination; 1 Mapping the feminist imagination From redistribution to recognition to representation; Historicizing second-wave feminism; Engendering social democracy: a critique of economism; From redistribution to recognition: the unhappy marriage of culturalism and neoliberalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Geographies of recognition: post-communism, post-colonialism and the Third WayUS gender politics, post-9/11; Evangelicalism: a neoliberal technology of the self; Reframing feminism: a trans-national politics of representation; References; 2 Perspectives on gender equality Challenging the terms of debate; Equality and inequality today; 'Common sense' and feminist critiques; Gender equality in context; Inequality in the private sphere; The partiality of male perspectives; Equality in an unequal society; A non-patriarchal approach to equality; References; 3 When will society be gender just?
Description / Table of Contents:
The question of gender justiceConceptualising gender; Gender justice and capabilities; Three principles of gender justice; Conclusions; References; Part II Variations on the theme of gender; 4 Does biology play any role in sex differences in the mind?; Systemizing and empathizing; The main brain types; Culture and biology; Autism: an extreme form of the male brain; Evidence for the extreme male brain theory; Conclusions; References; 5 Sex and the social construction of gender Can feminism and evolutionary psychology be reconciled?; Standard opposition between sex and gender
Description / Table of Contents:
Feminists on the social contract and the sexual contractEvolutionary psychology on the variety of mating patterns in nature: parental investment and sexual selection; Human sexuality, and the rarity and instability of social monogamy in nature; Cultural support of social monogamy; Evolutionary psychology on the sexual contract and the social contract; Conclusions; References; 6 'Trans' trouble Trans-sexuality and the end of gender; Identity; Reproduction; Sex; Sexuality/ies; Gender; Conclusions; References; 7 Gender and social change; Some problems of gender; Ontology
Description / Table of Contents:
Social positions and relationsInternal relations; Systems and collectivities; Social being as process; Theorising gender; Personal identities; Overview; The possibility of emancipatory practice; Social transformation and the good society; Conclusions; References; 8 Procreative mothers (sexual difference) and child-free sisters (gender); Feminism and femininity; Looking again at sisterhood; References; Part III Gender and political practice; 9 The politics of female diversity in the twenty-first century; New feminist myths; Preference theory; Three lifestyle preference groups
Description / Table of Contents:
Contextual factors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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