Persistence of Gender Inequality

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvMary Evans,Mary (University of Kent) Evans

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Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also about general social inequality. In widening the lenses on the persistence of gender inequality, Evans shows how in contemporary debates about social inequality gender is often ignored, implicitly side-lining critical aspects of relations between women and men. This engaging short book attempts to join up some of the dots in the ways that we think about both social and gender inequality, and offers a new perspective on a problem that still demands society’s full attention.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-28
Mått137 x 213 x 15 mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780745689920

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Acknowledgements vii Preface viii1 What is Gender Inequality? 1Making Inequality 5What Has Changed? 10Changing Conditions 122 Worlds of Inequality 23Exploiting the Feminine 25Problems at Work 30Problems of Agency 35Locations of Inequality 383 Problems of Subjectivity 47Imagining the Female Body 48Other Bodies 53How the Body Matters 58Questions of Order 614 Enter Feminism 76Conditions for Feminism 76A Secondary Sex 82Changing Times 87Unchanging Times 975 Making Gender Equality 120The Rights of Women 122The Limits of Liberalism 130Notes 140Bibliography 152Index 166

"A perceptive, focused essay... Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University