Feminist Perspectives on Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780130404619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 274 str.

Barbara Littlewood

Opis

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise, accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. This text examines how sociology has been transformed under the influence of feminism.

Spis treści

(Each chapter ends with Summary and Further Reading).

1. FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIOLOGY
Chapter outline
Many sociologies, many feminisms
Feminism in sociology: influences
Feminism and sociology: developments and directions
2. THE EPISTEMOLOGY 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
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?
4. PATRIARCHY: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
Chapter outline
‘Patriarchy’: radical and Marxist feminist
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
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
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?
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
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
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

 

O autorze

Barbara Littlewood