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Book SynopsisDespite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached.
Trade Review"A perceptive, focused essay...Highly recommended."
Times Higher Education
"In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."
Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."
Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii
Preface viii
1 What is Gender Inequality? 1
Making Inequality 5
What Has Changed? 10
Changing Conditions 12
2 Worlds of Inequality 23
Exploiting the Feminine 25
Problems at Work 30
Problems of Agency 35
Locations of Inequality 38
3 Problems of Subjectivity 47
Imagining the Female Body 48
Other Bodies 53
How the Body Matters 58
Questions of Order 61
4 Enter Feminism 76
Conditions for Feminism 76
A Secondary Sex 82
Changing Times 87
Unchanging Times 97
5 Making Gender Equality 120
The Rights of Women 122
The Limits of Liberalism 130
Notes 140
Bibliography 152
Index 166
