Intersexions

Gender/class/culture/ethnicity

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Intersexions by Gillian Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche, Jeannie Martin, Allen & Unwin
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Author: Gillian Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche, Jeannie Martin ISBN: 9781742696676
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication: June 1, 1991
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Language: English
Author: Gillian Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche, Jeannie Martin
ISBN: 9781742696676
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication: June 1, 1991
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Language: English

Do writings about ethnicity, class and gender form a 'holy trinity' or challenge previous unidimensional analyses?

Intersexions accepts the triple perspective but goes further. One aim is to understand the processes by which relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted. Intersexions also examines modes of representation: within social theory, feminism, development theory and discussions of capitalism and postcolonialism, as well as dominant ideological notions of caste, domesticity and 'success'.

The writers' approaches are all critical but concerned also with providing alternatives. Comparative and specific analyses are combined, attention is paid to the written and spoken material of the people 'represented' and their own positions as commentators examined. Topics range from discussions of family ideology and paid and domestic work, to analyses of writings by Aboriginals, Vanuatuans and second generation Greek Australians and critiques of the cultural construction of gender and ethnicity in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

Themes recur and overlap. Unitary categories are questioned and the processes by which relations described as 'class', 'ethnic', 'cultural' and 'gender' intersect and interact are demonstrated.

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Do writings about ethnicity, class and gender form a 'holy trinity' or challenge previous unidimensional analyses?

Intersexions accepts the triple perspective but goes further. One aim is to understand the processes by which relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted. Intersexions also examines modes of representation: within social theory, feminism, development theory and discussions of capitalism and postcolonialism, as well as dominant ideological notions of caste, domesticity and 'success'.

The writers' approaches are all critical but concerned also with providing alternatives. Comparative and specific analyses are combined, attention is paid to the written and spoken material of the people 'represented' and their own positions as commentators examined. Topics range from discussions of family ideology and paid and domestic work, to analyses of writings by Aboriginals, Vanuatuans and second generation Greek Australians and critiques of the cultural construction of gender and ethnicity in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

Themes recur and overlap. Unitary categories are questioned and the processes by which relations described as 'class', 'ethnic', 'cultural' and 'gender' intersect and interact are demonstrated.

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