Anna G. Jonasdottir: Why Women are Oppressed

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A feminist of international standing strives toward a theory about the web of relations between the sexes<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391108&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1005_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Why Women are Oppressed</h1> <h3>Anne G. J�nasd�ttir, foreword by Kathleen B. Jones</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-110-5 $78.50, Jan 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-111-3 $35.95, Jan 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-879-6 $34.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 312 pp 6x9 3 tables </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"...thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>New York Times Book Review</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p><I>Why Women are Oppressed</I> offers a much-needed radical feminist perspective on the "political conditions of sexual love." Recognizing that "sexual life always exists in definite socioeconomic contexts," Anna G. J�nasd�ttir develops a theory that elucidates the question: Why does men's social and political power persist even in Western societies where women have socioeconomic equality? <p>Throughout, J�nasd�ttir gives empirical relevance to her theorizing. She cites situations in various spheres of society where men and women compete and where men come out as "winners" for no obvious reason other than their malehood. Her account of women as loving caretakers "for" men, rather than desiring, interested subjects in reciprocally erotic relations stirs debate about women's needs and interests. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Foreword &#150 Kathleen B. Jones <br>Acknowledgments <p>1. Introduction: Patriarchy as a Problem in Political Theory <p>2. Sex/Gender, Power, and Politics: Patriarchy in the Formally Equal Society <br><I>Feminist Questions &#149 Socialist Feminist Theory &#149 The Sexual Struggle Today</I> <p>3. Common Oppression and Specific Experiences: Abstraction and Concretization in Feminist Theory <br><I>Basic Theory &#149 Partial Theories and Middle-Range Models &#149 Sex, Class, and Race &#149 Specifying "The Common"</I> <p>4. Patriarchy, Marxism, and the Dual Systems Theory <br><I>The Dual Systems Theory &#149 Marxist Method and Feminist Questions &#149 Hartmann's Concept of Patriarchy &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>5. Beyond "Oppression": The Exploitation of Women <br><I>"Exploitation": Used and Dismissed in Feminist Theory &#149 "Exploitation" and the Norm of Reciprocity &#149 Older Usage of the Term &#149 The Marxian Concept &#149 Farr Tormey's Conceptual Analysis &#149 Using the Marxist Method to Serve Feminist Theory &#149 Sexual "Exploitation Proper": A Preliminary Typology</I> <p>6. Her for Him&#151Him for the State: The Significance of Sex and Marriage in Hobbes's and Locke's Political Theories <br><I>Thomas Hobbes &#149 John Locke</I> <p>7. The Concept of Interest, Women's Interests, and the Limitations of Interest Theory <br><I>Women's Studies and Views on Interests &#149 Points of Conflict &#149 History of the Concept of "Interest" &#149 The Present Is Also History &#149 Another Theory of Interest</I> <p>8. Does Sex Matter to Democracy? <br><I>Women's Citizenship as Constrained by Individuality &#149 The Relevance of "Difference" and "Individuality" &#149 Sexual Equality and Women-Worthy Society</I> <p>9. Taking Sex Seriously <br><I>The Impasse of Socialist Feminist Theory: A Radical Critique &#149 Critical Theses &#149 Toward a Reoriented Feminist Materialist Analysis &#149 Constructive Theses &#149 If Sex Were Taken Seriously &#149 Toward a "Womanish"-Feminist Continuum</I> <p>Notes <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Anna G. J�nasd�ttir</b> is Research Fellow in Gender Studies and Political Science at the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of �rebro, Sweden.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391108&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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