Theorizing patriarchy
By: Sylvia Walby.
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Feminism -- Great Britain.; Patriarchy.
Description: "Sylvia Walby provides an overview of recent theoretical debates -- Marxism, radical and liberal feminism, post-structuralism and dual systems theory. She shows how each can be applied to a range of substantive topics from paid work, housework and the state, to culture, sexuality and violence, relying on the most up-to-date empirical findings. Arguing that patriarchy has been vigorously adaptable to the changes in women's position, and that some of women's hard-won social gains have been transformed into new traps, Walby proposes a combination of class analysis with radical feminist theory to explain gender relations in terms of both patriarchal and capitalist structure."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.