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Power/Gender
Social Relations in Theory and Practice
Edited by:
- H Lorraine Radtke - University of Calgary, Canada, University of Calgary, Australia
- Henderikus J Stam - University of Calgary, Canada
January 1994 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
H Lorraine Radtke and Henderikus J Stam
Introduction
Marilyn French
Power/Sex
Karlene Faith
Resistance
Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights
Into the Realm of the Fearful
Hilary M Lips
Female Powerlessness
Jean Lipman-Blumen
The Existential Basis of Power Relationships
R W Connell
The State, Gender and Sexual Politics
Jill Vickers
Notes toward a Political Theory of Sex and Power
Celia Kitzinger
Problematizing Pleasure
Lorraine Weir
Post-Modernizing Gender
Michelle Fine and Pat Macpherson
Over Dinner
Wendy Hollway
Separation, Integration and Difference
Eliane Leslau Silverman
Women in Women's Organizations
Marianne LaFrance and Nancy M Henley
On Oppressing Hypotheses; or Differences in Nonverbal Sensitivity Revisited