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Book SynopsisThe book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .
Table of Contents1. The political interests of gender revisited: reconstructing feminist theory and political research - Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Kathleen B. Jones
2. Out of epistemology: feminist theory in the 1980s and beyond - Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Kathleen B. Jones
3. Feminist questions, Marx´s method, and the theorisation of ‘love power’ - Anna G. Jónasdóttir
4. Empowerment, development and women’s liberation - Ann Ferguson
5. To teach ‘the correct procedure for love’: matrilineal cultures and the nation state - Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke
6. Confronting power and politics: a feminist theorizing of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean societies - Eudine Barriteau
7. Men, power and the problem of gender equality policy implementation - Ingrid Pincus
8. Explanations of internal sex segregation in a male dominated profession: the police force - Berit Åberg
9. Queer citizenship/queer representation: politics out of bounds? - Sue Dunlap and Kathleen B. Jones
10. Injecting a woman’s voice: conservative women’s organizations, gender consciousness and the expression of women’s policy preferences - Ronnee Schreiber
11. Women in movement: transformations in African political landscapes - Aili Mari Tripp
12. European Central Bank, monetary policy and the ‘social Europe’ - Brigitte Young
13. Private pain/public peace: women’s rights as human rights and Amnesty International’s report on violence against women - Gillian Youngs
