University of Chicago Press
Rethinking the Political: Gender, Resistance, and the State
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- Barbara Laslett
- University of Chicago Press
- Paperback
- 9780226073996
- 8.96 X 5.98 X 1.08 inches
- 1.51 pounds
- Social Science > Feminism & Feminist Theory
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Section One, Gender, Citizenship, and Collectivity, includes Nancy Frazer and Linda Gordon's critique of dependency and citizenship; Iris Young on women as a social collective; Ruth Bloch on the feminization of public virtue in revolutionary America; Trisha Franzen on feminism and lesbian community, and Sonia Kruks on de Beauvoir and contemporary feminism.
Collective Action and Women's Resistance, Section Two, features Louis Tilly's Paths of Proletarianization; Temma Kaplan's Female Consciousness and Collective Action; and five assessments of women's collective action worldwide: Samira Haj on Palestine, Arlene McLeod on Egypt, Gay Seidman on South Africa, Nancy Sternbach et al. on Latin America, and Anne Walthall on Japan.
Concluding with a section on gender and the state, Rethinking the Political also features Bronwyn Winter on the law and cultural relativism; Sherene Razack on sexual violence; Wendy Luttrell on educational institutions; Patricia Stamp on ethnic conflict in postcolonial Kenya; Elizabeth Schmidt on patriarchy and capitalism in Zimbabwe; and Muriel Nazzari on the woman question in post-revolutionary Cuba.
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