The Future of Gender

by Edited by Jude Browne

• ISBN13: 9780521874410
• ISBN10: 0521874416
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

"Gender" is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in familial structures and demography? How should gender be conceived in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, and what is gender's function in the design and pursuit of political objectives? In this volume a collection of international experts from the fields of political philosophy, political theory, sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender both as a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning the transformation of society. Each contributor considers how gender might be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of (often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness for the future.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Reorienting the feminist imagination	p. 15
Mapping the feminist imagination: from redistribution to recognition to representation	p. 17
Perspectives on gender equality: challenging the terms of debate	p. 35
When will society be gender just?	p. 54
Variations on the theme of gender	p. 75
Does biology play any role in sex differences in the mind?	p. 77
Sex and the social construction of gender: can feminism and evolutionary psychology be reconciled?	p. 98
'Trans' trouble: trans-sexuality and the end of gender	p. 116
Gender and social change	p. 136
Procreative mothers (sexual difference) and child-free sisters (gender)	p. 163
Gender and political practice	p. 189
The politics of female diversity in the twenty-first century	p. 191
Gender inequality and the gendered division of labour	p. 228
The principle of equal treatment and gender: theory and practice	p. 250
Index	p. 280
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