Feminist Perspectives on Sociology.

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise, accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. The texts in the series are designed to be used on a wide range of courses touching feminist issues and are written by experienced teachers who are also well known in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Littlewood, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Taylor and Francis, 2004.
Series:Feminist perspectives.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; 1 Feminist perspectives on sociology; Chapter outline; Many sociologies, many feminisms; Feminism in sociology: influences; Feminism and sociology: developments and directions; Summary; Further reading; 2 The epistemological challenge; Chapter outline; Introduction; The theoretical background: functionalism and conflict tiieory; Conflict theory, knowledge and ideology; Feminist critiques of sociological knowledge; Feminist empiricism; Feminist standpoint. 
505 8 |a Academics and activists: the politics of researchUseful knowledge; Summary; Further reading; 3 Divisions of labour; Chapter outline; Feminist sociology in the 1970s; 'Production' and 'reproduction' in sociology; The social and domestic division of labour: the historical background; Women and employment: contemporary issues; Features of women's employment; Factors contributing to women's employment patterns; Theories of women's work; The feminisation of the labour force; Moving beyond the 'West': gender and colonialism; The gendering of the global economy; Work and non-work. 
505 8 |a The demise of the male breadwinnerThe 'family-friendly' public sector?; Summary; Further reading; 4 Patriarchy: public and private; Chapter outline; 'Patriarchy': radical and Marxist feminism; Patriarchy as ideological or material; Where is patriarchy?; Patriarchy's relation to racial domination; Is patriarchy a system?; The state and patriarchy; Violence and the state; Summary; Further reading; 5 Body politics; Chapter outline; The background to feminist interest in body politics; Resisting naturalisation; Early campaigns; Sexed bodies and history. 
505 8 |a Women's experiences of their bodies: medicineBodies and physical activities: sport, dance and fitness; Getting 'the look'; Racialised bodies; White, male bodies and deviance from the norm; The dominated and the subversive body; Challenging domination; Summary; Further reading; 6 Living in a post world?; Chapter outline; Gendering modernity; Gendering modernist movements; Postmodernity; Critique or condition?; Sociology and postmodernism and feminism; Postmodernism, feminism and cultural studies; Postfeminism; Academic postfeminism; Postmodernism and feminism; Conclusion: last posts?; Summary. 
505 8 |a Further reading7 Postcolonialism and feminism; Chapter outline; International and sexual divisions of labour: colonialism; Gender relations in the colonial world; International and sexual divisions of labour: postcolonial conditions; Postcolonialism as critique; Postcolonialism and feminism; Summary; Further reading; 8 Globalising feminisms; Chapter outline; 'Globalisation' in social sciences; Globalisation and postcolonialism: condition and critique; Globalisation and feminist development studies; 'The globalised woman'; Globalising politics; Feminist politics and globalisation. 
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