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Gender Inequality : Feminist Theories and Politics

ISBN: 9780199859085 | 0199859086
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/14/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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/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 t... MORE
Prefacep. ix
Feminisms and Their Contributions to Gender Equalityp. 1
Gender Reform Feminismsp. 23
Liberal Feminismp. 27
A Theory of Female Subordinationp. 29
*Children of the Gender Revolutionp. 38
Marxist Feminismp. 51
Theorizing Racial and Gendered Classp. 53
Gender, Race, and Citizenshipp. 61
Soc... MOREp. 74
Gender and Complex Inequalityp. 76
The Invisible Heartp. 81
Transnational Feminismp. 90
Under Western Eyes at the Turn of the Centuryp. 95
*Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilizationp. 105
Gender Resistance Feminismsp. 123
Radical Feminismp. 127
Redstockings Manifestop. 130
Redstockings
*Biopiracy of Body-Based Resourcesp. 134
Lesbian Feminismp. 151
Decentering Lesbian Feminismp. 154
Lipstick or Timberlands? Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communitiesp. 158
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Feminismp. 168
Freud and Feminismp. 170
The Laugh of the Medusap. 176
Standpoint Feminismp. 183
Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowledge versus the Ruling Relationsp. 185
Gendered Standpoints on Naturep. 192
Gender Rebellion Feminismsp. 203
Social Construction Feminismp. 207
*Framed Before We Know Itp. 212
Gender as a Social Structurep. 220
Multiracialp. 231
Black Ferninism, Knowledge, and Powerp. 234
*Gloria Anzaldúa's Spiritual Activismp. 238
Feminist Studies of Menp. 253
Hegemonic Masculinityp. 255
*Racializing the Glass Escalatorp. 264
Postmodern Feminism and Queer Theoryp. 284
Gender, Sex, and Sexual Performativityp. 286
*"A Rose is a Rose"p. 289
Third-Wave Feminismp. 304
*What is Third-Wave Feminism?p. 307
Third Wave Black Feminism?p. 314
Toward a New Feminismp. 326
Glossaryp. 331
Indexp. 334
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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).

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