Defining Women

This book was edited by Linda McDowell, who is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University and Rosemary Pringle, who is Reader in Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. The book includes contributions from Aveen Maguire, Beverly Thiele, Linda J. Nicholson, Nancy Mairs, Diana Gittins, Ann Phoenix, Ntozake Shange, Anne Phillips, Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis, Ray E. Pahl, Ann Oakley, Christine Delphy, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rosemary Pringle, Veronica Beechey, Angela Coyle, Marny Hall, Linda McDowell, Carole Pateman, Joan W. Scott, Ruth Pearson, June Jordan and Caroline Ramazanoglu.

• Preface. Part I: Defining Women:.Introduction: Women as 'Other'.1. Defining Public and Private Issues.Part II: Diversity and Difference:.Introduction: Recognizing Difference.2. Personal Experience, Families and Households.3. Class, Race and Gender.Part III: On Work:.4.Defining Work.5. Gender and Wage Labour.Part IV:Women and Politics.6. Women and Citizenship.7. Women's Struggles: Unity and Diversity.References.Source List of Articles.Acknowledgements.Index.

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