Configuring Gender

by Marshall, Barbara L.

• ISBN13: 9781551110943
• ISBN10: 1551110946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Mainstreaming Gender	p. 15
Gender and Sociology: A Romance	p. 16
Gender Outside the Academy	p. 36
Gender Mainstreaming: A Mixed Legacy	p. 42
Destabilizing Gender	p. 45
The Trouble with Gender: Feminist Debates	p. 46
Gender and Sexuality	p. 56
Gender and Race	p. 62
Gender and Class	p. 65
Feminism and Postmodernism Revisited	p. 67
Politicizing Gender	p. 73
Challenging the Grammar of Liberalism	p. 75
Gender Politics: Feminism and the State in English Canada	p. 81
The Problem of Identity Politics	p. 96
De-legitimating Gender	p. 99
Gender in Brackets: The Fundamentalist Critique	p. 100
The 'Gender-Feminist' Takeover: The Libertarian Critique	p. 105
Much Ado about Gender	p. 109
The New Politics of Gender: The Universalism/Particularism Dilemma Revisited	p. 118
Restructuring Gender	p. 125
Globalization, Restructuring, and Gendered Citizenship in Canada	p. 128
Gender and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Europe	p. 140
Gender Travels: Lessons from International Feminisms	p. 144
Putting Gender in its Place	p. 149
Conclusions - Reconfiguring Gender?	p. 153
References	p. 163
Index	p. 186
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