The political interests of gender : developing theory and research with a feminist face

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The political interests of gender : developing theory and research with a feminist face

Kathleen B. Jones and Anna G. Jónasdóttir

(Sage modern politics series, v. 20)

Sage, 1988

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"Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research/ECPR" -- in t. p.

Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

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 consider gender as an analytically distinct category in political theory involves redefining andenlarging the scope of politics, the practice of citizenship, and the language of political action, as well as recognizing the political dimensions of sexuality. The Political Interests of Gender is important reading for all political theorists, feminist researchers and theorists.

Table of Contents

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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  • NCID
    BA06629221
  • ISBN
    • 080398085X
    • 0803980868
  • LCCN
    88062061
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    240 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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