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Title: Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
ISBN: 019533051X
Author:
Judith Lorber
Publicate Date: 2005-03-15
Publish: 2005-03-15
List Price: $47.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Not a helpful addition
I don't write amazon reviews, but given the 5 star rating of the single review, I think a counter-opinion is called for; readers will decide, of course. I taught a recent course on feminism and politics using Lorber as my main theoretical text, but found that its definitions of the different kinds of feminism were analytically muddled. Rather than clarifying differences between Marxist, liberal, postmodern and other feminisms, the descriptions blurred the distinctions and failed to emphasize the ways in which liberal feminism has been challenged on different and sometimes competing grounds by the alternatives. The result may reflect reality--feminism has become an eclectic mix of ideas--but the lack of clarity about how each type emerged and why makes the book less than helpful as a basis on which to build a course. I have great respect for Judith Lorber, but was very frustrated by this book.
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2: THIRD EDITION NOW AVAILABLE
GENDER INEQUALITY
Feminist Theories and Politics
Third Edition
Judith Lorber asks --
Is feminism dead, or has it gone mainstream? Are we into a third wave or still in the second wave? What did feminism accomplish in the past 40 years? What still needs to be done about persistent gender inequality? Do we need a new feminism?
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, 3rd edition,
answers these questions. It presents the variety of feminist theories developed to explain the sources of gender inequality, and how the various theories have diverged and converged in the second wave of feminism as a political movement. It describes feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality, gives credit for its enormous accomplishments in the last 40 years, documents on-going political activism, and points to where feminism is going in its postmodern and third-wave phases.
THE THIRD EDITION INCLUDES:
* A review of thirteen types of feminism organized into three typologies, with two excerpts from primary sources for each
* Checklists for sources of gender inequality, politics, and contributions to social change for each perspective
NEW IN THIS EDITION:
* Fifteen new readings
* Separate chapters on marxist feminism and socialist feminism
* A chapter on third-wave feminism
* "Do We Need a New Feminism?"-a chapter on current trends in feminist theory,research, and politics
* Updated and expanded text and reading lists
* Updated internet sources
* Glossary and index
The Third Edition continues the main perspectives of the first two editions-setting forth the sources and the politics for gender inequality, as seen by a variety of feminisms. These are:
* Gender reform feminisms (liberal, marxist, socialist, post-colonial)-who want to purge the gendered social order of practices that discriminate against women
* Gender resistance feminisms (radical, lesbian, psychoanalytic, standpoint)-who want women's voices and perspectives to reshape the gendered social order
* Gender rebellion feminisms (multicultural/multiracial, feminist studies of men, social construction, post-modern, third-wave)-who want to take apart the gendered social order by multiplying genders or doing away with them entirely
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