The Polity Reader in Gender Studies

Gender studies has become one of the core fields in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of the struggles of feminists, women are no longer hidden from history or unacknowledged in social research or cultural analysis. Over recent years, again largely because of the influence of feminism, masculinity has also increasingly been made problematic and opened up to scrutiny. Gender is thereby recognised to be central to the analysis of structures of power, the organization of social and cultural institutions, and modes of ideological control in modern societies. Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Part I Theorizing Gender and Sexual Difference 5

1 The Cultural Constitution of Gender / Henrietta Moore 14

2 Towards a Theory of Patriarchy / Sylvia Walby 22

3 Gender Regimes and the Gender Order / R.W. Connell 29

4 Gender, Relation and Difference in Psychoanalytic perspective / Nancy Chodorow 41

5 The Feminist Critique of Rationality / Susan Hekman 50

6 Radical Philosophies of Sexual Differences: Luce Irigaray / Rosi Braidotti 62

7 James Joyce between Eros and Agape / Julia Kristeva 71

8 Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Seyla Benhabib 76

9 The Dangers of a Woman-centred Philosophy / Moira Gatens 93

10 The Disorder of Women / Carole Pateman 108

Part II Gendered Work and Gendered Identity 121

11 Gender and Sexual Temperament / Natalie Zemon Davis 129

12 Hidden from History / June Purvis 135

13 Homemaking / Philip Pacey 143

14 Gendered Jobs and Social Inequality / Harriet Bradley 150

15 The Variety of Work Done by Wives / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard 159

16 The Domestic Mystique / Christina Hardyment 166

17 Persons, Households, Families, Lineages, Genders, Classes and Nations / Michael Mann 177

18 The Representation of Women / Anne Phillips 195

19 Technology as Masculine Culture / Judy Wajcman 216

20 Reproductive Technologies and the Deconstruction of Motherhood / Michelle Stanworth 226

21 The Body and Sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks 235

22 Men, Women and Romantic Love / Anthony Giddens 240

23 Deconstructing the Monolithic Phallus / Lesley Hall 249

24 Art and Pornography / Susanne Kappeler 255

25 Masculinity, Violence and Sexual Murder / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer 267

26 Rape and Sexuality / Barbara Sichtermann 273

27 Competing masculinities / Catherine Hall 280

28 The Sexual Politics of Meat / Carol Adams 299

29 Women in Prison: Surviving Holloway / Josie O'Dwyer and Pat Carlen 305

30 The military academy and the male body / Klaus Theweleit 310

Index

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