The Polity Reader in Gender Studies

Gender studies has become one of the core fields in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of the struggles of feminists, women are no longer hidden from history or unacknowledged in social research or cultural analysis. Over recent years, again largely because of the influence of feminism, masculinity has also increasingly been made problematic and opened up to scrutiny. Gender is thereby recognised to be central to the analysis of structures of power, the organization of social and cultural institutions, and modes of ideological control in modern societies.

Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part I Theorizing Gender and Sexual Difference 5 1 The Cultural Constitution of Gender / Henrietta Moore 14 2 Towards a Theory of Patriarchy / Sylvia Walby 22 3 Gender Regimes and the Gender Order / R.W. Connell 29 4 Gender, Relation and Difference in Psychoanalytic perspective / Nancy Chodorow 41 5 The Feminist Critique of Rationality / Susan Hekman 50 6 Radical Philosophies of Sexual Differences: Luce Irigaray / Rosi Braidotti 62 7 James Joyce between Eros and Agape / Julia Kristeva 71 8 Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Seyla Benhabib 76 9 The Dangers of a Woman-centred Philosophy / Moira Gatens 93 10 The Disorder of Women / Carole Pateman 108 Part II Gendered Work and Gendered Identity 121 11 Gender and Sexual Temperament / Natalie Zemon Davis 129 12 Hidden from History / June Purvis 135 13 Homemaking / Philip Pacey 143 14 Gendered Jobs and Social Inequality / Harriet Bradley 150 15 The Variety of Work Done by Wives / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard 159 16 The Domestic Mystique / Christina Hardyment 166 17 Persons, Households, Families, Lineages, Genders, Classes and Nations / Michael Mann 177 18 The Representation of Women / Anne Phillips 195 19 Technology as Masculine Culture / Judy Wajcman 216 20 Reproductive Technologies and the Deconstruction of Motherhood / Michelle Stanworth 226 21 The Body and Sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks 235 22 Men, Women and Romantic Love / Anthony Giddens 240 23 Deconstructing the Monolithic Phallus / Lesley Hall 249 24 Art and Pornography / Susanne Kappeler 255 25 Masculinity, Violence and Sexual Murder / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer 267 26 Rape and Sexuality / Barbara Sichtermann 273 27 Competing masculinities / Catherine Hall 280 28 The Sexual Politics of Meat / Carol Adams 299 29 Women in Prison: Surviving Holloway / Josie O'Dwyer and Pat Carlen 305 30 The military academy and the male body / Klaus Theweleit 310 Index