Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415880879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 278 str.

Anna G. Jónasdóttir;Valerie Bryson;Kathleen B. Jones

Opis

This volume aims to break new ground in the fields of sexuality and gender studies. Its framework is grounded in three interconnected principles: that ideas and knowledge can have transformative political effects; that theory must be firmly grounded in 'real world' conditions and experiences; and, that the investigation of sexuality and its intersections with gender and other roles, identities and structural contexts must lie at the heart of social and political analysis. It offers perspectives and case analyses that, taken together, contribute to the development of new approaches to thinking about sexuality and its relationship to gender that go beyond existing theories and practices.

Spis treści

Introduction  Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones  Part 1: Sexuality, Love and Social Theory  Editors’ Introduction: Sexuality, Love and Social Theory  1. Materialist Feminism, the Self and Global Late Modernity: Some Consequences for Intimacy and Sexuality  Stevi Jackson  2. Nation, State and Queers: Ethnosexual Identities in the Interface Between Social and Personal in Contemporary Croatia  Katja Kahlina  3. What Kind of Power is ‘Love Power’?  Anna G. Jónasdóttir  4. Sexuality: The Contradictions of Love and Work  Valerie Bryson  5. Theorising Sexuality and Power in Caribbean Gender Relations  Violet Eudine Barriteau  6. Love Impossible: Troubling Tales of Eroticized Difference in Buenos Aires  Maria Törnqvist  Part 2: Power and Politics  Editors’ Introduction: Power and Politics  7. Contract Theory and Global Change: The Intersections of Gender, Race and Class  Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills  8. The Politics of Prostitution Revisited: Trends in Policy and Research  Joyce Outshoorn  9. Men, Masculinities and Power in Contemporary China: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Bao Ernai  Xingkui Zhang  10. Sexual Politics and Globalization: Triangulation of Relationships Among Taishang Bosses, Bosses’ Wives and Chinese Women  Bih-Er Chou  11. Notes on Femme-inist Agency  Ulrika Dahl  12. ‘Why Are You Doing This to Me?’ Identity, Power and Sexual Violence in War  Cynthia Cockburn  Part 3: Contemporary Approaches to Interest, Solidarity and Action  Editors’ Introduction: Contemporary Approaches to Interest, Solidarity and Action  13. Global/Transnational Gender/Sexual Scenarios  Jeff Hearn  14. The Curious Resurrection of First Wave Feminism in the U.S. Elections: An Intersectional Critique of the Rhetoric of Solidarity and Betrayal  Kimberlé Crenshaw  15. How is Global Gender Solidarity Possible?  Ann Ferguson

O autorze

Anna G. Jónasdóttir is Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to The Politics and History of Gender Relations, Örebro University, Sweden. She is also responsible for the Örebro part of the two-campus Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel). Valerie Bryson is Professor of Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Kathleen B. Jones is Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, USA, and a member of the Centre of Gender Excellence, GEXcel’s International Advisory Board.