Rethinking the political : gender, resistance, and the state / edited by Barbara Laslett, Johanna Brenner, and Yesim Arat.

Other author Laslett, Barbara.
Other author Brenner, Johanna.
Other author Arat, Yeşim, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995.
Descriptionvi, 489 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Feminists rethink the political -- The gendered meanings of virtue in Revolutionary America / Ruth H. Bloch -- A genealogy of Dependency : tracing a keyword of the U.S. welfare state / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon -- Differences and identities : feminism and the Albuquerque lesbian community / Trisha Franzen -- Gender and subjectivity : Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary feminism / Sonia Kruks -- Gender as seriality : thinking about women as a social collective / Iris Marion Young -- Paths of proletarianization : organization of production, sexual division of labor, and women's collective action / Louise A. Tilly -- Female consciousness and collective action : the case of Barcelona, 1910-1918 / Temma Kaplan -- Palestinian women and patriarchal relations / Samira Haj -- Hegemonic relations and gender resistance : the new veiling as accommodating protest in Cairo / Arlene Elowe MacLeod -- "No freedom without the women" : mobilization and gender in South Africa, 1970-1992 / Gay W. Seidman -- Feminisms in Latin America : from Bogotá to San Bernardo / Nancy Saporta ... [et al.] -- Devoted wives/unruly women : invisible presence in the history of Japanese social protest / Anne Walthall -- Women, the law, and cultural relativism in France : the case of excision / Bronwyn Winter -- Burying Otieno : the politics of gender and ethnicity in Kenya / Patricia Stamp -- Patriarchy, capitalism, and the colonial state in Zimbabwe / Elizabeth Schmidt -- The "woman question" in Cuba : an analysis of material constraints on its solution / Muriel Nazzari -- "The teachers, they all had their pets" : concepts of gender, knowledge, and power / Wendy Luttrell.
General note"The essays in this volume originally appeared in various issues of Signs : journal of women in culture and society"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95007645
ISBN0226073971 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226073998 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1236 .R475 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold