Intersexions : gender, class, culture, ethnicity / edited by Gill Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche and Jeannie Martin.

Date:
1991
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Intersections

Description

Examines how relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted; examines modes of representation in social theory, feminism, development theory; papers by Jan Larbalestier, Marie de Lepervanche and Jan Pettman annotated separately.

Publication/Creation

St Leonards, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 1991.

Physical description

xii, 243 pages ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-233) and index.

Contents

Moving in from the margins: gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India / Kalpana Ram -- Ethno-religious communitites and gender divisions in Bangladesh: women as boundary markers / Santi Rozatio -- Housemainds: the effects of gender and culture on the internal and international migration of Indonesian women / Kathy Robinson -- The politics of difference: feminism, colonialism and decolonisation in Vanuatu / Margaret Jolly -- Through their own eyes: an interpretation of Aboriginal women's writing / Jan Larbalestier -- Representing the 'second generation': subjects, objects and ways of knowing / Gill Bottomley -- Multiculturalism and feminism / Jeannie Martin -- The family: in the national interest? / Marie de Lepervanche -- Gender, class and ethnic relations: the domestic and work experiences of Italian migrant women in Australia / Ellie Vasta -- Domesticity and Latin American women in Australia / Vanda Moraes-Gorecki -- Racism, sexism and sociology / Jan Pettman.

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  • 004442325X
  • 9780044423256