The future of gender / edited by Jude Browne.

Providing a major new assessment of the effectiveness of the concept of gender, this book features a range of high-profile contributors from the fields of political philosophy, political theory, sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Browne, Jude
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Reorienting the feminist imagination. Mapping the feminist imagination: from redistribution to recognition to representation / Nancy Fraser
  • Perspectives on gender equality: challenging the terms of debate / Valerie Bryson
  • When will society be gender just? / Ingrid Robeyns. pt. II. Variations on the theme of gender. Does biology play any role in sex differences in the mind? / Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Sex and the social construction of gender: can feminism and evolutionary psychology by reconciled? / Susan Hurley
  • 'Trans' trouble: trans-sexuality and the end of gender / Terrell Carver
  • Gender and social change / Tony Lawson
  • Procreative mothers (sexual difference) and child-free sisters (gender) / Juliet Mitchell. pt. III. Gender and political practice. The politics of female diversity in the twenty-first century / Catherine Hakim
  • Gender inequality and the gendered division of labour / Rosemary Crompton
  • The principle of equal treatment and gender: theory and practice / Jude Browne.