The Gender of Power

1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8543-8
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Drawing on feminist theories of women's oppression and on social theories of power, this book offers original analyses of the relationship between gender and power.

The Gender of Power presents a critique of feminist theories of power as simply top-down models of the oppression of women. The authors argue that this notion presents women as passive victims and ignores the diversity and complexity of women's experiences. The ideas on power of Bourdieu, Giddens, Lukes and Foucault are also evaluated in terms of their usefulness in explaining relations between men and women, which can often be covert, consensual and intimate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Kathy

Leijenaar, Monique

Oldersma, Jantine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Jantine Oldersma and Kathy Davis
RT ONE
THREE DIMENSIONS OF POWER
Power and Love - Joan Meyer
Conflicting Conceptual Schemata
Gender, Power and Feminist Theory - Aafke Komter
PART TWO: POWER, STRUCTURE AND AGENCY
Critical Sociology and Gender Relations - Kathy Davis
Gendered Structure - Joan Wolffensperger
Giddens and the Conceptualization of Gender
PART THREE: SITES OF GENDERED POWER
Gender, Property and Power - Annelies Moors
Sovereign and Disciplinary Power - Riet Delsing
Bourdieu, Power and Resistance - Carla Risseeuw

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Kathy
Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).

CONTRIBUTORS

Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam

Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra

Gon Buurman Amsterdam

Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan

Joanne Finkelstein Monash University

Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht

Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt

Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent

Linda McKie University of Aberdeen

Monica Rudberg University of Oslo

Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford

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