Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics

By Judith Lorber

Book Overview

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines thirteen evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance, rebellion," this combination text/reader acknowledges feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality and celebrates its enormous accomplishments over the last forty years. It also documents feminism's ongoing political activism, and with an exploration of postmodern and third-wave trends, points toward its future.

Significantly rewritten, reorganized, and updated, the fifth edition includes:

* More coverage of cultural feminism
* New readings on such topics as deconstruction, ecofeminism, and Chicana feminism
* An expanded discussion of postmodern feminism, including transgendering and its congruences and conflicts with feminist theory and politics
* New references on transnational feminism and feminist studies of men

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199859086
• ISBN13: 9780199859085
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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