Gender Inequality Feminist Theories and Politics

by Lorber, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780195375220
• ISBN10: 019537522X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fourth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines various, evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance, rebellion," this combination text/reader acknowledges feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality and celebrates its enormous accomplishments over the last forty years. It also documents feminism's ongoing political activism, and, with an awareness of postmodern and third-wave trends, points toward its future. Significantly rewritten, reorganized, and updated, the fourth edition features seventeen new readings and new sections on feminism in China, India, South Korea, and Japan. In addition, the bulleted lists that introduce each type of feminism now include a critique as well as that particular feminism's theories on the sources of gender inequality, its politics, and its contributions. An accessible, engaging classic written by one of sociology's first feminists, Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fourth Edition, is an ideal undergraduate and graduate text for courses in introductory feminism, feminist theory, and women's studies.

Author Biography

Judith Lorber is an international scholar in gender studies and Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change (2005), Paradoxes of Gender (1994), numerous articles on gender and on women in healthcare, and coauthor of Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives (OUP, 2006) and Gender and the Social Construction of Illness (2002).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Feminisms and Their Contributions to Gender Equality	p. 1
Gender Reform Feminisms	p. 21
Liberal Feminism	p. 25
A Theory of Female Subordination	p. 27
Integrating Family and Work in the 21st Century	p. 36
Marxist Feminism	p. 46
Theorizing Racial and Gendered Class	p. 48
Gender, Race, and Citizenship	p. 56
Socialist Feminism	p. 70
Gender and Complex Inequality	p. 72
The Invisible Heart	p. 77
Postcolonial and Asian Feminism	p. 86
Under Western Eyes at the Turn of the Century	p. 90
Climbing the Pyramids of Power	p. 98
Gender Resistance Feminisms	p. 117
Radical Feminism	p. 121
Redstockings Manifesto	p. 123
Goodbye to All That (#2)	p. 127
Lesbian Feminism	p. 142
Decentering Lesbian Feminism	p. 145
Lipstick or Timberlands? Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities	p. 149
Psychoanalytic Feminism	p. 159
Freud and Feminism	p. 161
The Laugh of the Medusa	p. 166
Standpoint Feminism	p. 173
Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowledge versus the Ruling Relations	p. 175
Gendered Standpoints on Nature	p. 182
Gender Rebellion Feminisms	p. 193
Multiracial/Multiethnic Feminism	p. 197
Black Feminism, Knowledge, and Power	p. 200
Nego-Feminism	p. 206
Feminist Studies of Men	p. 215
Hegemonic Masculinity	p. 218
Gender, Class, and Terrorism	p. 229
Social Construction Feminism	p. 243
Gender as a Social Structure	p. 252
Imagining a World without Gender	p. 258
Postmodern Feminism and Queer Theory	p. 267
Gender, Sex, and Sexual Performativity	p. 270
Thinking about Drag as Social Protest	p. 273
Third-Wave Feminism	p. 282
Sisters vs. Daughters	p. 284
Third-Wave Black Feminism?	p. 293
Do We Have a New Feminism?	p. 303
Glossary	p. 315
Index	p. 319
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