Title: Theorizing patriarchy
First published: 1990
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.
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women, Social conditions, Women, Feminism, Patriarchy, Women, social conditions, Sexism, Sex role, Sex discrimination in employment, Sexual division of labor
Places: Great Britain
LC classification: HQ1237.5.G7 W35 1991