Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysi…
With her first book, The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow revolutionised feminist theory and therapy. Now she takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. In this her first extended treatment of…
The female outsider in the modern -- Modernisms and the woman in history -- Figuring the female in modern realisms -- Magical women in the modern -- Modern women in feminist realisms.
Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, bell hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women's experiences, this book provides a new exploration of the feminist phrase. The personal is political. It aims …
Gendering welfare states
by Sainsbury, Diane,, politicoloog
fromSage modern politics series
Bundel waarin het begrip gender onderdeel is van een analyse van de verzorgingsstaat. Hiertoe komt een aantal wetenschappers aan het woord zowel vanuit feministische hoek als vanuit het reguliere onderzoek: Jet Bussemakers en Kees van Kersbergen over: Sekse en verzorgingsstaten;…
This volume synthesizes the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. It highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men.
The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provi…
Talking difference: on gender and language
Talking difference: on gender and language
The book addresses such provocative questions as: Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do ass…
Talking difference: on gender and language
"Talking Difference is a refreshing re-evaluation of current wisdom - both academic and popular - about men's and women's language. Mary Crawford critically assesses the abundant social science research of recent years, and its representation in the mass media, from talk shows t…
"This third edition of Women, Men and Language provides an up-to-date account of gender differences in language to answer the question: 'Do women and men talk differently?'" "The book takes the reader from an initial 'men talk like this; women talk like that' approach to a more …
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
The work provides an introduction to on-line and audience issues through the study of an Internet soap opera fan group composed largely of women. The author shows that women can build good on-line communities, whilst welcoming male participation.