Engendering The Social: Feminist Encounters with Social TheoryMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2004 M03 1 - 223 pages This is unique in that it not only critically interrogates sociological theory from a feminist perspective, but also embarks on a politics of reconstruction, working creatively at the interface of feminist and sociological theory to induce a more adequate conceptualisation of the social. |
Contents
feminist encounters with sociological theory | 1 |
Part 1 Interrogating the classical canon | 17 |
founders feminists and excluded voices | 69 |
Part 3 Interrogating modern sociology | 137 |
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Back cover | 225 |
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