Barbara Marshall

Configuring Gender (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in Theory and Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This brief book focuses on how the idea of gender has developed both in scholarship and in the public mind.

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Barbara L. Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology with an adjunct appointment in Women's Studies at Trent University. She is the author of Engendering Modernity: Feminism, Social Theory and Social Change (1994, Polity Press/Northeastern University Press).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442602489
• Artikelnr.: 54176887

Autorenporträt

Barbara L. Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology with an adjunct appointment in Women's Studies at Trent University. She is the author of Engendering Modernity: Feminism, Social Theory and Social Change (1994, Polity Press/Northeastern University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One: Mainstreaming Gender
Gender and Sociology: A Romance
Gender Outside the Academy
Gender Mainstreaming: A Mixed Legacy
Two: Destabilizing Gender
The Trouble with Gender: Feminist Debates
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Race
Gender and Class
Feminism and Postmodernism Revisited
Three: Politicizing Gender
Challenging the Grammar of Liberalism
Gender Politics: Feminism and the State in English Canada
The Problem of Identity Politics
Four: De-Legitimating Gender
Gender in Brackets: The Fundamentalist Critique
The 'Gender-Feminist' Takeover:
 - The Libertarian Critique
Much Ado about Gender
The New Politics of Gender
- The Universalism/Particularism Dilemma 
   Revisited
Conclusion
Five: Restructuring Gender
Globalization, Restructuring, and Gendered Citizenship in Canada
Gender and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Europe
Gender Travels
 - Lessons from International Feminisms
Putting Gender in its Place
Conclusions--Reconfiguring Gender?
References
Index