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First published in 1996. Since the publication of Simone de
Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", French feminist thought has informed
and shaped the on-going debates in the English-speaking world. This
book introduces English speakers to the work of a major group of
French feminists - those de Beauvoir herself supported.
Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures
of the second wave of the women's movement. The Female Eunuch
(1970) is one of second-wave feminism's most widely recognised
publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand
our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others
have. Yet, while Greer's public visibility never seems to wane, her
writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of
sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents
the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her
writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this
collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer's public rivalry
with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and
politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays
include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the
recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. This book was originally published as a
Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become
a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global
socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of
people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of
key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused
upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of
indebtedness. The contributors to the book consider both the lived
experience of debt and the more abstract processes of
financialisation taking place globally. Showing how debt functions
on the level of both macro- and microeconomics, the book also
provides a more holistic perspective, with accounts that span
sociological, cultural, and economic forms of analysis.
Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures
of the second wave of the women's movement. The Female Eunuch
(1970) is one of second-wave feminism's most widely recognised
publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand
our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others
have. Yet, while Greer's public visibility never seems to wane, her
writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of
sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents
the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her
writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this
collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer's public rivalry
with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and
politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays
include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the
recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. This book was originally published as a
Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and
especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist
capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their
entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing
the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls
for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of
economization, and emergent regulatory strategies are reconfiguring
labour and life in post-Fordism and summoning new forms of 'women's
work'. Contributors also map how these same processes are
repositioning feminism, especially feminism as a mode of critique.
Feminism here stands not in an external relation to the objects and
matters it seeks to critique but as implicated in those very
objects. In mapping this terrain Gender and Labour in New Times
opens out new feminist research agendas for the study of the
post-Fordist labour and the modes of regulation that post-Fordism
as a regime of capital accumulation entails. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
First published in 1996. Since the publication of Simone de
Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", French feminist thought has informed
and shaped the on-going debates in the English-speaking world. This
book introduces English speakers to the work of a major group of
French feminists - those de Beauvoir herself supported.
This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and
especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist
capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their
entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing
the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls
for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of
economization, and emergent regulatory strategies are reconfiguring
labour and life in post-Fordism and summoning new forms of 'women's
work'. Contributors also map how these same processes are
repositioning feminism, especially feminism as a mode of critique.
Feminism here stands not in an external relation to the objects and
matters it seeks to critique but as implicated in those very
objects. In mapping this terrain Gender and Labour in New Times
opens out new feminist research agendas for the study of the
post-Fordist labour and the modes of regulation that post-Fordism
as a regime of capital accumulation entails. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and
labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract
in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and
investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over
a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced
dimensions.
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of
Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking
with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings
established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of
a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. Driven by a central
leitmotif in Bourdieu's oeuvre, namely, that his work not be
blindly appropriated but actively interpreted, contributors to this
volume set out to map the potentials of Bourdieusian inflected
social science. While for many social scientists the empirical and
theoretical developments of the twenty-first century mark a limit
point of Bourdieusian social theory, this collection charts both
how and why a Bourdieusian sociology has a future, which is crucial
for the ongoing development and roll out of an engaged, relevant
and critical social science.
Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life
must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by
the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in
understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from
the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on
'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of
writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various
aspects of social life - including employment, family life,
representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law -
are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization
and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new
controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of
feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late
modernity.
The study of sexuality is moving from margin to centre stage in sociology, as the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' demonstrated. Drawn from that conference, the papers in this volume contribute to the debates which have developed on the relationship between the sexual and the social, and between gender and sexuality. The focus is on women, and from different perspectives the authors explore the themes of gendered identity, the construction of sexuality, embodiment and control. The social contexts in which these themes are elaborated include the family, the law, the education system, medical practice and discourse, and cultural representations and texts.
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of
Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking
with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings
established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of
a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. Driven by a central
leitmotif in Bourdieu's oeuvre, namely, that his work not be
blindly appropriated but actively interpreted, contributors to this
volume set out to map the potentials of Bourdieusian inflected
social science. While for many social scientists the empirical and
theoretical developments of the twenty-first century mark a limit
point of Bourdieusian social theory, this collection charts both
how and why a Bourdieusian sociology has a future, which is crucial
for the ongoing development and roll out of an engaged, relevant
and critical social science.
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The
Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the
financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has
created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative
stance toward life in general. Replacing a logic of extraction,
speculation changes our relationship to time and organizes our
social worlds to maximize the productive capacities of populations
around flows of money for finance capital. Speculative practices
have become a matter of survival, and defining features of our age
are hardwired to their operations-stagnant wages, indebtedness, the
centrality of women's earnings to the household, workfarism, and
more. Examining five features of our contemporary economy, Lisa
Adkins reveals the operations of this speculative rationality.
Moving beyond claims that indebtedness is intrinsic to contemporary
life and vague declarations that the social world has become
financialized, Adkins delivers a precise examination of the
relation between finance and society, one that is rich in empirical
and analytical detail.
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The
Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the
financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has
created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative
stance toward life in general. Replacing a logic of extraction,
speculation changes our relationship to time and organizes our
social worlds to maximize the productive capacities of populations
around flows of money for finance capital. Speculative practices
have become a matter of survival, and defining features of our age
are hardwired to their operations—stagnant wages, indebtedness,
the centrality of women's earnings to the household, workfarism,
and more. Examining five features of our contemporary economy, Lisa
Adkins reveals the operations of this speculative rationality.
Moving beyond claims that indebtedness is intrinsic to contemporary
life and vague declarations that the social world has become
financialized, Adkins delivers a precise examination of the
relation between finance and society, one that is rich in empirical
and analytical detail.
Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life
must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by
the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in
understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from
the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on
'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of
writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various
aspects of social life - including employment, family life,
representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law -
are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization
and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new
controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of
feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late
modernity.
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