Format:
1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:
9781000613063
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics Ser.
Content:
Suggests that the shortcomings of social theory prevent feminist strategies from initiating transformative changes and achieving permanent gains. Investigates the impact of theoretical shortcomings by engaging with two clusters of work: ungendered accounts of capitalist development and theories on gendered oppression and inequality.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Contemporary Paradox -- 1. Reconsidering the determinants of socio-economic transformation -- 2. Bringing the causes of gender inequality into the focus of feminist analysis -- 3. Advantages of historical materialism for feminism -- 4. The patriarchal, capitalist and racist case of Turkey -- 5. The plan of the book -- PART I: Theoretical Shortcomings and Political Implications -- 1. The Ungendered Accounts of Capitalist Development -- 1.1. The gendered patterns of labour movement -- 1.2. The patriarchal path of agrarian transformation -- 1.3. Landowning male peasants as an influential political actor -- 1.4. The ungendered perceptions of the state -- 1.5. Essentialist interpretations of culture and religion -- 1.6. Rethinking the problem -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. Conceptual Abandonment of Patriarchal Labour Exploitation -- 2.1. The initial accounts of patriarchal exploitation -- 2.1.1. Men exploit women as a whole -- 2.1.2. Men exploit women's reproductive abilities and labour -- 2.1.3. Men exploit women's labour within the family -- 2.2. Causality reduced to capitalism: The social reproduction approach -- 2.3. Obscured causality: Theories on varieties of gender regime -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. Theorising the Patriarchal System of Exploitation -- 3.1. Political implications of theoretical shortcomings -- 3.2. Patriarchal exploitation of labour -- 3.2.1. Distinctiveness of patriarchal labour exploitation -- 3.2.2. Exploitation or not? -- 3.3. Patriarchal collective subject -- 3.4. Systems of exploitation and regimes of oppression -- 3.5. The state -- 3.6. Theorising gender regimes in the global South -- 3.6.1. Debate on rural forms of patriarchy.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367515782
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367515782
Language:
English
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