Diana Mulinari
Forskarutbildningsansvarig | Professor
A feminist re-reading of theories of late modernity: Beck, Giddens and the location of gender
Författare
Summary, in English
This article is a critical reappraisal of the understandings of gender and the location of women within theories of late modernity. These theories, as articulated by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, have gained a wide use, not the least since they claim to account for changes in intimate relations. We will use four major feminist interventions for our argument – the problematization of the public-private divide, feminist theorizing of kinship, feminist understandings of labor, and the heterosexual matrix.
We argue that the late modern story is made through violently created presences – of the reinvention of the heterosexual matrix, the private sphere as the location of women/gender, reproduction coupled to biology, and gender as an intimate relation between women and men – and absences of analysis of reproductive and productive labor, of the role of the state, and of gender as a social relation constituted through and within other social inequalities.
We argue that the late modern story is made through violently created presences – of the reinvention of the heterosexual matrix, the private sphere as the location of women/gender, reproduction coupled to biology, and gender as an intimate relation between women and men – and absences of analysis of reproductive and productive labor, of the role of the state, and of gender as a social relation constituted through and within other social inequalities.
Avdelning/ar
- Genusvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
493-507
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Critical Sociology
Volym
35
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Brill
Ämne
- Gender Studies
Nyckelord
- gender
- feminist theory
- late modernity
- family
Status
Inpress
Projekt
- 2003-2165 Theorizing social change in feminist thinking
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0896-9205