The Political Interests of Gender: Developing Theory and Research With a Feminine Face: Developing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face - Rilegato

Jones, Kathleen B.; Jonasdottir, Anna G.

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ISBN 10: 080398085X ISBN 13: 9780803980853

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 1988

Riassunto

The Political Interests of Gender starts from the premise that contemporary political theory is inadequate when approached from the perspective of gender.

The book indicts contemporary political analysis for its silence about or ignorance of women's interests, and challenges the hypothesis that the central concepts of political thought and its basic techniques are value neutral.

The contributors go on to consider what political theory and political communities would look like if women's interestes were addressed. The aim is to reconstruct the methodology of political analysis to conceptualize political reality in terms of gender.

The book presents a powerful argument that to conside

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Contenuti:

Editors' Preface
Introduction: Gender as an Analytic Category in Political Theory - Kathleen B Jones and Anna G J[ac]onasd[ac]ottir
Towards the Revision of Politics - Kathleen B Jones
On the Concept of Interest, Women's interests, and the Limitations of Interest Theory - Anna G J[ac]onasd[ac]ottir
Subject-centredness in Feminist Discourse - Kathy E Ferguson
Women's Interests in Local Politics - Gun Hedlund
The Mobilization of Gender Group Consciousness - Arthur H Miller, Anne Hildreth, Grace L Simmons
Under Permanent Guardianship: Women's Condition under Modern Civil Law - Ursula Vogel
Towards a Feminist Rethinking of the Welfare State - Birte Siim
The Welfare State Citizenship of Scandinavia Women - Helga Maria Hernes
Politics, Population, and Gender: A Feminist Analysis of US Population Policy in the Third World - Jane S Jaquette and Kathleen A Staudt

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• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 080398085X
• ISBN 13: 9780803980853
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256