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Informationen zum Autor Kathy Davis is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. She is author of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (1995) and Power Under the Microscope: Toward a Grounded Theory of Gender Relations in Medical Encounters (1988). CONTRIBUTORS Anna Aalten University of Amsterdam Rachel AD Bloul ANU Canberra Gon Buurman Amsterdam Julia Edwards University of Glamorgan Joanne Finkelstein Monash University Ineke Klinge University of Utrecht Gesa Lindeman University of Frankfurt Harriette Marshall Staffordshire University Stoke on Trent Linda McKie University of Aberdeen Monica Rudberg University of Oslo Anne Woollett University of East London, Stratford Dubravka Zarkov Nijmegen Klappentext Drawing on feminist theories of women's oppression and on social theories of power, this book offers original analyses of the relationship between gender and power. The Gender of Power presents a critique of feminist theories of power as simply top-down models of the oppression of women. The authors argue that this notion presents women as passive victims and ignores the diversity and complexity of women's experiences. The ideas on power of Bourdieu, Giddens, Lukes and Foucault are also evaluated in terms of their usefulness in explaining relations between men and women, which can often be covert, consensual and intimate. Zusammenfassung Drawing on feminist theories of women's oppression and on social theories of power! this text attempts to develop an analysis of the relationship between gender and power and shows how theories of power can contribute to the analysis of gender relations in specific historical and social contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Jantine Oldersma and Kathy Davis RT ONE THREE DIMENSIONS OF POWER Power and Love - Joan Meyer Conflicting Conceptual Schemata Gender, Power and Feminist Theory - Aafke Komter PART TWO: POWER, STRUCTURE AND AGENCY Critical Sociology and Gender Relations - Kathy Davis Gendered Structure - Joan Wolffensperger Giddens and the Conceptualization of Gender PART THREE: SITES OF GENDERED POWER Gender, Property and Power - Annelies Moors Sovereign and Disciplinary Power - Riet Delsing Bourdieu, Power and Resistance - Carla Risseeuw ...
