Gender Inequality : Feminist Theories and Politics

by Lorber, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780199859085
• ISBN10: 0199859086
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth 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/readeracknowledges 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.The fifth edition features eight new readings and five significantly rewritten, reorganized, and updated chapters, including one on transnational feminism, which encompasses Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Other rewritten chapters are Psychoanalytic and Cultural Feminism, Social ConstructionFeminism, Postmodern Feminism and Queer Theory, and Third Wave Feminism. As before, the bulleted lists introducing each type of feminism include the feminism's theories of the sources of gender inequality, its politics, its contributions, and a critique.An accessible, engaging classic written by one of sociology's first feminists, Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth Edition, is an ideal undergraduate and graduate text for courses in introductory feminism, feminist theory, and women's studies.

Author Biography

Judith Lorber is 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. 23
Liberal Feminism	p. 27
A Theory of Female Subordination	p. 29
*Children of the Gender Revolution	p. 38
Marxist Feminism	p. 51
Theorizing Racial and Gendered Class	p. 53
Gender, Race, and Citizenship	p. 61
Socialist Feminism	p. 74
Gender and Complex Inequality	p. 76
The Invisible Heart	p. 81
Transnational Feminism	p. 90
Under Western Eyes at the Turn of the Century	p. 95
*Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization	p. 105
Gender Resistance Feminisms	p. 123
Radical Feminism	p. 127
Redstockings Manifesto	p. 130
Redstockings
*Biopiracy of Body-Based Resources	p. 134
Lesbian Feminism	p. 151
Decentering Lesbian Feminism	p. 154
Lipstick or Timberlands? Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities	p. 158
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Feminism	p. 168
Freud and Feminism	p. 170
The Laugh of the Medusa	p. 176
Standpoint Feminism	p. 183
Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowledge versus the Ruling Relations	p. 185
Gendered Standpoints on Nature	p. 192
Gender Rebellion Feminisms	p. 203
Social Construction Feminism	p. 207
*Framed Before We Know It	p. 212
Gender as a Social Structure	p. 220
Multiracial	p. 231
Black Ferninism, Knowledge, and Power	p. 234
*Gloria Anzaldúa's Spiritual Activism	p. 238
Feminist Studies of Men	p. 253
Hegemonic Masculinity	p. 255
*Racializing the Glass Escalator	p. 264
Postmodern Feminism and Queer Theory	p. 284
Gender, Sex, and Sexual Performativity	p. 286
*"A Rose is a Rose"	p. 289
Third-Wave Feminism	p. 304
*What is Third-Wave Feminism?	p. 307
Third Wave Black Feminism?	p. 314
Toward a New Feminism	p. 326
Glossary	p. 331
Index	p. 334
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