Feminist Perspectives on Sociology.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Series editors' preface -- 1 Feminist perspectives on sociology -- Chapter outline -- Many sociologies, many feminisms -- Feminism in sociology: influences -- Feminism and sociology: developments and directions -- Summary -- Further reading -- 2 The epistemological challenge -- Chapter outline -- Introduction -- The theoretical background: functionalism and conflict theory -- Conflict theory, knowledge and ideology -- Feminist critiques of sociological knowledge -- Feminist empiricism -- Feminist standpoint -- Academics and activists: the politics of research -- Useful knowledge -- Summary -- Further reading -- 3 Divisions of labour -- Chapter outline -- Feminist sociology in the 1970s -- 'Production' and 'reproduction' in sociology -- The social and domestic division of labour: the historical background -- Women and employment: contemporary issues -- Features of women's employment -- Factors contributing to women's employment patterns -- Theories of women's work -- The feminisation of the labour force -- Moving beyond the 'West': gender and colonialism -- The gendering of the global economy -- Work and non-work -- The demise of the male breadwinner -- The 'family-friendly' public sector? -- Summary -- Further reading -- 4 Patriarchy: public and private -- Chapter outline -- 'Patriarchy': radical and Marxist feminism -- Patriarchy as ideological or material -- Where is patriarchy? -- Patriarchy's relation to racial domination -- Is patriarchy a system? -- The state and patriarchy -- Violence and the state -- Summary -- Further reading -- 5 Body politics -- Chapter outline -- The background to feminist interest in body politics -- Resisting naturalisation -- Early campaigns -- Sexed bodies and history -- Women's experiences of their bodies: medicine.

Bodies and physical activities: sport, dance and fitness -- Getting 'the look -- Racialised bodies -- White, male bodies and deviance from the norm -- The dominated and the subversive body -- Challenging domination -- Summary -- Further reading -- 6 Living in a post world? -- Chapter outline -- Gendering modernity -- Gendering modernist movements -- Postmodernity -- Critique or condition? -- Sociology and postmodernism -- . . . and feminism -- Postmodernism, feminism and cultural studies -- Postfeminism -- Academic postfeminism -- Postmodernism and feminism -- Conclusion: last posts? -- Summary -- Further reading -- 7 Postcolonialism and feminism -- Chapter outline -- International and sexual divisions of labour: colonialism -- Gender relations in the colonial world -- International and sexual divisions of labour: postcolonial conditions -- Postcolonialism as critique -- Postcolonialism and feminism -- Summary -- Further reading -- 8 Globalising feminisms -- Chapter outline -- 'Globalisation' in social sciences -- Globalisation and postcolonialism: condition and critique -- Globalisation and feminist development studies -- 'The globalised woman' -- Globalising politics -- Feminist politics and globalisation -- Global feminisms -- Summary -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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