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Social Theory
Women?s Studies
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- ISBN 9780803985438
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 1991
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing on feminist theories of women′s oppression and on social theories of power, this book offers original analyses of the relationship between gender and power.
The Gender of Power presents a critique of feminist theories of power as simply top-down models of the oppression of women. The authors argue that this notion presents women as passive victims and ignores the diversity and complexity of women′s experiences. The ideas on power of Bourdieu, Giddens, Lukes and Foucault are also evaluated in terms of their usefulness in explaining relations between men and women, which can often be covert, consensual and intimate.
Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women′s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988).
CONTRIBUTORS
Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam
Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra
Gon Buurman Amsterdam
Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan
Joanne Finkelstein Monash University
Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht
Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt
Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent
Linda McKie University of Aberdeen
Monica Rudberg University of Oslo
Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford
Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen
