The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face

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In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more robust, multi-dimensional approaches to analyses of the political interests of gender. Leading gender studies' scholars utilise different research traditions to investigate topics including human rights, women's movements, gendered labour markets, international monetary policy, equality policy, and queer politics. This unique anthology includes theoretical and empirical work, illustrating how to build bridges between materialist and discursive theoretical frameworks for understanding the politics of gender. It will be a trend-setting text for advanced gender studies political science, and sociology courses, as well as for professionals in these fields. -- .

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Kathleen B. Jones is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at San Diego State University, San Diego, USA. Anna Jonasdottir is Professor of Gender Studies in the Center for Feminist Social Studies at A-rebro University, Sweden