The political interests of gender revisited

Redoing theory and research with a feminist face

Edited by Anna Jonasdottir, Kathleen Jones

Publication date:

01 February 2009

Length of book:

320 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

234x156mm

ISBN-13: 9780719076244

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more robust, multi-dimensional approaches to analyses of the political interests of gender.

Leading gender studies’ scholars utilise different research traditions to investigate topics including human rights, women’s movements, gendered labour markets, international monetary policy, equality policy, and queer politics. This unique anthology includes theoretical and empirical work, illustrating how to build bridges between materialist and discursive theoretical frameworks for understanding the politics of gender. It will be a trend-setting text for advanced gender studies political science, and sociology courses, as well as for professionals in these fields.

1. The political interests of gender revisited: reconstructing feminist theory and political research - Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Kathleen B. Jones
2. Out of epistemology: feminist theory in the 1980s and beyond - Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Kathleen B. Jones
3. Feminist questions, Marx´s method, and the theorisation of ‘love power’ - Anna G. Jónasdóttir
4. Empowerment, development and women’s liberation - Ann Ferguson
5. To teach ‘the correct procedure for love’: matrilineal cultures and the nation state - Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke
6. Confronting power and politics: a feminist theorizing of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean societies - Eudine Barriteau
7. Men, power and the problem of gender equality policy implementation - Ingrid Pincus
8. Explanations of internal sex segregation in a male dominated profession: the police force - Berit Åberg
9. Queer citizenship/queer representation: politics out of bounds? - Sue Dunlap and Kathleen B. Jones
10. Injecting a woman’s voice: conservative women’s organizations, gender consciousness and the expression of women’s policy preferences - Ronnee Schreiber
11. Women in movement: transformations in African political landscapes - Aili Mari Tripp
12. European Central Bank, monetary policy and the ‘social Europe’ - Brigitte Young
13. Private pain/public peace: women’s rights as human rights and Amnesty International’s report on violence against women - Gillian Youngs