To understand the varieties of feminist sociology it is important to know something of the history of feminism as a social movement, because the feminist sociologies are a product of a particular phase of feminism. For the purposes of the book, feminism is divided into three broad phases. First Wave feminism, from about 1848 to […]
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DOORWAY DRAMA
We can draw one set of magnified moments from Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman (1973), an arch-reactionary traditional book (covertly addressed to modern readers) that is curiously warm. We can draw a very different set from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex (1981), a modern advice book that is curiously cool. From The Total Woman: If […]
DOORWAY DRAMA
We can draw one set of magnified moments from Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman (1973), an arch-reactionary traditional book (covertly addressed to modern readers) that is curiously warm. We can draw a very different set from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex (1981), a modern advice book that is curiously cool. From The Total Woman: If […]
Trials of Women in Canada, 1866-1954
The archival documents from Confederation to the abolition of the death penalty in 1976 include the files of some 1,300 men and fifty-eight women. Twenty-eight women were initially condemned to death for killing their husbands. The distribution of these homicides is as follows: seven in Ontario, seven in Quebec, four in Alberta, three in New […]
When the patriarchy gets worried
When the patriarchy gets worried it goes into action. (Cross, 1981: 22) T his is a book about feminist sociology. It is not an account of the sociological research on women. There are plenty of those (e. g. Delamont, 1980, 2001 and Pilcher, 1999). Rather it is an account of a theoretical perspective in sociology […]
Violence, Prejudice, the State
The lack of alternative housing is one of the reasons women may stay in, or return to, a violent marriage. Domestic violence is a very large part of all violence. It is difficult to get reliable statistics, but a good many pointers exist. A study of four police stations in different suburbs of Sydney in […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Creating sound social policy requires good information. Elected officials and others who create policy rely on research findings to provide the basis for policy. In terms of social policies affecting older adults, the data obtained through the use of the research designs discussed earlier are critical. For example, research such as Schaie’s research on intellectual […]
FEELING AS CLUE
Men are estrangedfrom one another as each secretly tries to make an instrument of the other, and in time a full circle is made; one makes an instrument of himself, and is estranged from It also. — C. Wright Mills One day at Delta’s Stewardess Training Center an instructor scanned the twenty-five faces readied for […]
Is The Myth of Malt Power the flip side of feminism?
It will be tempting to see The Myth of Male l*ower as the flip side of feminism. It is not. Feminism says, "The world Is patriarchal and male — dominated." The flip side is, "The world is matriarchal and female-dominated." I explain why it is both patriarchal and matriarchal, both male- and female-dominated. The book […]
FEMINIST POSTSTRUCTURALISM OR POSTFEMINISM?
Poststructuralist theories thus reject the concept of the humanist subject, and feminist poststructuralism poses a radical challenge to essentialism. The ‘subject’ is no longer a fixed entity, a manifestation of ‘essence’ but ‘a “subject-in process” never unitary, never complete’ (Marshall 1994:108). This anti-essentialist position culminates, as Fraser (1992:66) contends, in a postfeminist stance where a […]