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Power/gender: social relations in theory and practice

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Inquiries in social constructionPublication details: Sage Publications 1994 LondonDescription: x, 317p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780803986756
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4 P6
Summary: The connection between gender and power is at the center of current debates across the social sciences. This timely book assembles a distinguished international cast of contributors from social psychology, women's studies, sociology, management, political science, and the humanities to provide a broad-ranging analysis of the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations. This volume examines how gender is constructed through the practices of power and demonstrates how "female" and "male" are shaped not only at the microlevel of everyday social interaction but also at the macrolevel where social institutions control and regulate the practice of gender. Power / Gender explores the incorporation of gender relations and theories on power, the links between gender and political arrangements, and the socially constructed nature of gender. It also examines the connections between gender and power within the specific context of women's lives. This interesting and original volume is essential reading for anyone in social psychology, women's studies, political science, management and sociology who seeks to understand why gender relations are power relations. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/powergender/book203736#description
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Power/sex

Resistance : lessons from Foucault and feminism

Into the realm of the fearful : power, identity and the gender problematic

Female powerlessness : a case of 'cultural preparedness'?

The existential bases of power relationships : the gender role case

The state, gender and sexual politics : theory and appraisal

Notes toward a political theory of sex and power

Problematizing pleasure : radical feminist deconstructions of sexuality and power

Post-modernizing gender : from Adrienne Rich to Judith Butler

Over dinner : feminism and adolescent female bodies

Separation, integration and difference : contradictions in a gender regime

Women in women's organizations : power or pouvoir?

On oppressing hypotheses : or Differences in nonverbal sensitivity revised

The connection between gender and power is at the center of current debates across the social sciences. This timely book assembles a distinguished international cast of contributors from social psychology, women's studies, sociology, management, political science, and the humanities to provide a broad-ranging analysis of the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations. This volume examines how gender is constructed through the practices of power and demonstrates how "female" and "male" are shaped not only at the microlevel of everyday social interaction but also at the macrolevel where social institutions control and regulate the practice of gender. Power / Gender explores the incorporation of gender relations and theories on power, the links between gender and political arrangements, and the socially constructed nature of gender. It also examines the connections between gender and power within the specific context of women's lives. This interesting and original volume is essential reading for anyone in social psychology, women's studies, political science, management and sociology who seeks to understand why gender relations are power relations.

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/powergender/book203736#description

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