Gender, Agency, and Coercion (Hardcover)

This collection aims to think critically about agency and explore the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth. In academic, activist, and policy circles alike, feminist work has re-focused attention onto women as agents rather than as passive victims of overwhelming structures of male institutional power, or less capable of exercising agency by virtue of their class, race, gender or culture. These broadly positive moves are not without risks. Most notably, they can encourage a triumphalist disregard for constraints through an exclusive emphasis on "discovering" agency even in the least favorable situations, thereby obscuring domination, inequality, and subordination. So how does bringing agency and coercion into closer interplay impact our understanding of the two? How might the stories of feminist agency change if we locate agency and coercion on the same intellectual frame? What would it mean to disrupt the existing constellation of ideas accompanying agency so as to include coercion, subordination and oppression alongside ideas of freedom, autonomy, and independence? How do we theoretically negotiate agency and coercion in conditions of deep inequality? This collection thinks through these questions in a range of regional, intellectual, ethical and political contexts.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	S. Madhok • A. Phillips • K Wilson • Clare Hemmings
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	289
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-30032-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-230-30032-4
Barcode:	9780230300323

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