Defining women

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Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which social institutions, practices and discourses define women and their position in present-day societies.
The book examines the essential debates about the social construction of gender divisions in and by the key institutions of the labour market and the state. Focusing on notions of power, dependence and equality, it addresses questions of the differences between women and men, and between women themselves, in the economy and civil society. Women's political struggles to challenge their subordinate position are also assessed. The recognition of the diverse interests of women currently poses a real challenge to the central project of feminism, but Defining Women confidently argues for its future.
This book will be widely used as a textbook in feminism and women's studies and will have a broad interdisciplinary appeal.... Tovább

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Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which social institutions, practices and discourses define women and their position in present-day societies.
The book examines the essential debates about the social construction of gender divisions in and by the key institutions of the labour market and the state. Focusing on notions of power, dependence and equality, it addresses questions of the differences between women and men, and between women themselves, in the economy and civil society. Women's political struggles to challenge their subordinate position are also assessed. The recognition of the diverse interests of women currently poses a real challenge to the central project of feminism, but Defining Women confidently argues for its future.
This book will be widely used as a textbook in feminism and women's studies and will have a broad interdisciplinary appeal.
Contributors include Aveen Maguire, Beverly Thiele, Linda J. Nicholson, Nancy Mairs, Diana Gittins, Ann Phoenix, Ntozake Shange, Anne Phillips, Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis, Ray E. Pahl, Ann Oakley, Christine Delphy, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rosemary Pringle, Veronica Beechey, Angela Coyle, Marny Hall, Linda McDowell, Carole Pateman, Joan W. Scott, Ruth Pearson, June Jordan and Caroline Ramazanoglu.
Linda McDowell is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, Rosemary Pringle is Reader in Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia.
The other books in this series are:
Knowing Women: Feminism and Knowledge
edited by Helen Crowley and Susan Himmelweit
Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender
edited by Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender
edited by Frances Bonner, Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen, Linda Janes
and Catherine King Vissza