An international feminist challenge to theory

In this volume, 15 feminist scholars from five continents, who participated in the 1998 conference co-sponsored by Research Committee 32, Women in Society, of the International Sociological Association (WISISA) and the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University, consider, critiqu...

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Other Authors Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; New York : JAI, 2001.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesAdvances in gender research ; v. 5.
Subjects
Feminism.
Gender identity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849500791
1849500797
9780762307203
076230720X
ISSN1529-2126 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2126(2001)5
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 257 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an international feminist challenge to theory / Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
  • Women redefining politics: between new challenges and old illusions / Paola Melchiori
  • Theory incorporated / Vicki Kirby
  • Feminism of color challenges white sociological theory and color-blind eco-feminism / Laura Corradi
  • The biomedical digitalization of women's bodies and women's body politics in the context of globalization: challenges to women-and-health research / Annemiek Richters
  • The nature/culture dualism in the Indian context / Abha Chauhan
  • Postmodern feminism challenges organization theory / Gladys L. Symons
  • Much ado about gender: a conceptual travelogue / Barbara L. Marshall
  • It's the 21st century - do you know what gender you are? / Judith Lorber
  • The devolution of women as a category in development theorizing: is this an essential move? / Iêda Chapoval
  • Rethinking development from a feminist perspective / Ann Denis
  • Sisters' keepers: economic organizing among informally employed women in Turkey / Simel Esim
  • In search of the good life: feminist correctives to modernization theory / Janet Zollinger Giele
  • Feminist nebula: theoretical approaches on representations of feminism in Recife / Lady Selma Ferreira Albernaz
  • Being a white Australian-Canadian feminist doing research with South Asian women of color in the diaspora: crossing borders and boundaries, creating spaces / Helen Ralston
  • Can research, activism, and feminism converge? some notes on collaborative action-oriented inquiry / Deborah Harrison.

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