The Political Interests of Gender Revisited

by Jonasdottir, Ann G.; Jones, Kathleen B.

• ISBN13: 9789280811612
• ISBN10: 9280811614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

'In the two decades since the publication of our last anthology', Jonasdottir and Jones write in their introduction to this important new book, 'two trends have characterised approaches to the concept of gender in political studies . . . one strategically centring gender in social and political analysis and the other deconstructing gender'. Tensions between these trends led to an impasse in feminist theory, generating a crisis in how to think about what we can do about gender, identity, or representation in the ethical/political sense.

Author Biography

Anna G. Jonasdottir is Professor of Gender Studies in the Center for Feminist Social Studies at Orebro University, Sweden Kathleen B. Jones is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables page	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
The political interests of gender revisited: reconstructing feminist theory and political research	p. 1
Out of epistemology: feminist theory in the 1980s and beyond	p. 17
Feminist questions, Marx's method and the theorisation of 'love power'	p. 58
Empowerment, development and women's liberation	p. 84
To teach 'the correct procedure for love': matrilineal cultures and the nation state	p. 104
Confronting power and politics: a feminist theorising of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean societies	p. 122
Men, power and the problem of gender equality policy implementation	p. 149
Explanations of internal sex segregation in a male dominated profession: the police force	p. 167
Queer citizenship/queer representation: politics out of bounds?	p. 189
Injecting a woman's voice: conservative women's organisations, gender consciousness and the expression of women's policy preferences	p. 208
Women in movement: transformations in African political landscapes	p. 230
European Central Bank, monetary policy and the 'social Europe'	p. 255
Private pain/public peace: women's rights as human rights and Amnesty International's report on violence against women	p. 275
Index	p. 296
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