Gender and Power

Gender and Power
Author: Raewyn W. Connell
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1991-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745604688

This book is an important introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discussion of, among other issues, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminist theories, the structure of gender relations, and working class feminism, Connell has produced a major work of synthesis and scholarship which will be of unique value to students and professionals in sociology, politics, women's studies and to anyone interested in the field of sexual politics. Visit www.raewynconnell.net

Gender, Power, and Non-Governance

Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Author: Andria D. Timmer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800734611

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power. The chapters in this volume present diverse analyses of the ways in which projects of governance both reproduce and challenge binaries.

Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance

Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance
Author: Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780472066100

Investigates how notions of masculinity and femininity inform ideology, political action, and institutional prejudice

Gender

Gender
Author: Raewyn Connell
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745645674

Introducing modern gender studies, gender theories and gender politics, this text traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations.

Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World

Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
Author: Pat O'Connor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030696871

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.

Gender and Power in Eastern Europe

Gender and Power in Eastern Europe
Author: Katharina Bluhm
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2020-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030531309

This book explores the contradictory development of gender roles in Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. In light of the social changes that followed the collapse of communism and the rise of new conservatism in Eastern Europe, it studies new forms of gender relationships and reassesses the status quo of female empowerment. Moreover, leading scholars in gender studies discuss how right-wing populism and conservative movements have affected sociopolitical discourses and concepts related to gender roles, rights, and attitudes, and how Western feminism in the 1990s may have contributed to this conservative turn. Mainly focusing on power constellations and gender, the book is divided into four parts: the first explores the history of and recent trends in feminist movements in Eastern Europe, while the second highlights the dynamics and conflicts that gained momentum after neoconservative parties gained political power in post-socialist countries. In turn, the third part discusses new empowerment strategies and changes in gender relationships. The final part illustrates the identities, roles, and concepts of masculinity created in the sociocultural and political context of Eastern Europe.

Gender, Power and Sexuality

Gender, Power and Sexuality
Author: Pamela Abbott
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349212415

Gender, Power and Sexuality is a collection of original and exciting articles by well-known feminists which makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which men exercise control over girls and women in their daily lives, in the home, at school, at work and in the courts. Women are seen to resent and challenge male power, but, the institutionalisation of male power is shown to mitigate against women taking control over their own lives.

Gender and Power in Rural North China

Gender and Power in Rural North China
Author: Ellen R. Judd
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804726986

This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitution of the Chinese state in the reform era draws force and authority from the inherent politics and power of gender.

Gender, Power, and Violence

Gender, Power, and Violence
Author: Angela J. Hattery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538118181

What do the Catholic Church, college sports, Hollywood, prisons, the military, fraternities and politics have in common? All have extraordinarily high rates of sexual and intimate partner violence, and child sexual abuse. Sexual and intimate partner violence is part of the landscape that women and children live with. Women and children are subjected to high levels of sexual and intimate partner violence and in the era of #metoo, Gender, Power and Violence provides a nuanced analysis of the ways in which the organizational structure of an institution, like a college campus or Hollywood, can create an environment ripe for sexual and intimate partner violence and even child sexual abuse. Gender, Power, and Violence looks at the problem of sexual and intimate partner violence through cases, observing the role that institutions play in perpetuating gender based violence, and provide a better understanding about the ways in which institutional structures shape, or have mishandled, gender based violence. Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith touch on current events that have highlighted the pervasiveness of gender based violence across the institutions they interrogate throughout the book, but also in the entertainment industry, the government, and television journalism. Gender, Power, and Violence gives the reader a better understanding of what factors shape who will be perpetrators, who will be victims, and how organizations respond (or not) when it is reported. It also offers recommendations for transforming these institutions so that they are safe for women and children of all genders.