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The persistence of gender inequality / Mary Evans.
Author
Evans, Mary, 1946-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.
Description
x, 172 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HQ1237 .E9175 2017
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Sex discrimination
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Women's rights
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Equality
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Sex role
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Gender roles
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-165) and index.
Contents
1. What is Gender Inequality?
Making Inequality
What Has Changed?
Changing Conditions
2. Worlds of Inequality
Exploiting the Feminine
Problems at Work
Problems of Agency
Locations of Inequality
3. Problems of Subjectivity
Imagining the Female Body
Other Bodies
How the Body Matters
Questions of Order
4. Enter Feminism
Conditions for Feminism
A Secondary Sex
Changing Times
Unchanging Times
5. Making Gender Equality
The Rights of Women
The Limits of Liberalism.
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ISBN
9780745689913 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0745689914 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780745689920 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0745689922 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016017192
OCLC
951854691
Other standard number
40026698561
99970900552
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