This book investigates the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations, demonstrating how gender is constructed through the practices of power.
The contributors argue that `female' and `male' are shaped not only at the micro-level of everyday social interaction but also at the macro-level where social institutions control and regulate the practice of gender. Power/Gender explores: how theorizing on power is affected when gender is taken into account; post-Foucauldian theory of gender and power; whether it is possible to separate gender and power; the connections between gender and the practice of power in political contexts, and how these connections work in the specific contexts of women's lives; and whether the construction of sex or gender is an expression of power relations.
The contributors argue that `female' and `male' are shaped not only at the micro-level of everyday social interaction but also at the macro-level where social institutions control and regulate the practice of gender. Power/Gender explores: how theorizing on power is affected when gender is taken into account; post-Foucauldian theory of gender and power; whether it is possible to separate gender and power; the connections between gender and the practice of power in political contexts, and how these connections work in the specific contexts of women's lives; and whether the construction of sex or gender is an expression of power relations.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780803986756
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-8039-8675-6
- Verlag: Sage Publications UK
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1994
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 1994
- Serie: Inquiries in Social Construction series
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 414 g
- Seiten: 328
- Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt