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A provocative analysis of gender inequalitya s destructive effects on our society and our planet.
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A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet. In this wide-ranging and powerful new book, the influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley mounts a devastating argument about the state of our humanity. Drawing on examples such as the simple experience of riding a bicycle through London, the way we've become 'sick to death of women', and the environmental abuse of our planet, she shows how every aspect of our lives is dominated by male/female power structures, and forces us to take a step back and see how and why gender inequality has thrown our society out of balance. In Gender on Planet Earth, Oakley argues that the persistence of traditional gender values prevents us from leading more ethical and humane lives. Governed by "delusional systems" such as psychoanalysis and sociobiology, we assume that the imbalance of the sexes is the inevitable consequence of our genes, psyches and unchangeable economic motives. Drawing from a broad array of literature, Oakley combines personal narrative with social commentary and eye-opening statistics to provide a provocative account of the state we're really in.
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A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet. In this wide-ranging and powerful new book, the influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley mounts a devastating argument about the state of our humanity. Drawing on examples such as the simple experience of riding a bicycle through London, the way we've become 'sick to death of women', and the environmental abuse of our planet, she shows how every aspect of our lives is dominated by male/female power structures, and forces us to take a step back and see how and why gender inequality has thrown our society out of balance. In Gender on Planet Earth, Oakley argues that the persistence of traditional gender values prevents us from leading more ethical and humane lives. Governed by "delusional systems" such as psychoanalysis and sociobiology, we assume that the imbalance of the sexes is the inevitable consequence of our genes, psyches and unchangeable economic motives. Drawing from a broad array of literature, Oakley combines personal narrative with social commentary and eye-opening statistics to provide a provocative account of the state we're really in.
Author Biography
Ann Oakley is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the University of London's Institute of Education. She has been writing and researching in the area for over 30 years. Her previous books include Experiments in Knowing, Man and Wife, The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Housewife, The Sociology of Housework, and Sex, Gender and Society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii1 The Self and Other Dramas 12 On the Problem of Women and Bicycles 133 Manslaughter 284 Sick to Death of Women 495 Angeles in the House 826 Family Values 1027 The Rape of Mother Earth 1238 Delusional Systems 1549 World-traveling 19410 Civic Rituals and Real Futures 5Notes 230Index 283
Review
"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life"....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books
Kirkus US Review
From British feminist/novelist Oakley (The Men's Room, 1989, etc.), a tightly argued thesis that the continuing imbalance of power between the sexes is a symptom, not a cause, of "a violent, aggressive, competitive, commodified, selfish way of life" damaging to the health and well-being of the planet. That way of life is still propelled by men and acquiesced to by women, in spite of the feminist movement, and its ramifications are evident across society from forthright issues of inadequate childcare to obscure intellectualizations in postmodernist salons, asserts Oakley (Sociology/Univ. of London). She breaks down her arguments into smaller pieces in chapters that address both anecdotally and statistically the problems, for instance, of women and bicycles. (Both are marginalized, bicycles in the interests of automobiles, women in the interests of a power structure still characterized as "patriarchy.") Although individual women are now included in the power base, it is the male mode that dominates, declares the author. Bolstering her contentions, she moves on to explorations of violence against women and environmental exploitation as motivated by both power and profit in a chapter that curiously links destructive agricultural practices with reproductive technologies. Oakley really gets rolling when she goes after what she calls "delusional systems," among them psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, modern economics, evolutionary psychology/sociobiology (which lets the genes take the blame for "messy moral, political and economic issues"), and postmodernism, which eschews objective reality. After a questionable side trip into science fiction and fantasy writings to reimagine gender roles and nonviolent societies, Oakley returns to a potent discussion of the damaging patriarchal society as it functions today, including what it would take to begin to eliminate violence, poverty, and neglect in the world. She's not optimistic. Tough going for the lay reader, but crowded with provocative ideas and inspired by a worthy vision. (Kirkus Reviews)
Long Description
A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet. In this wide-ranging and powerful new book, the influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley mounts a devastating argument about the state of our humanity. Drawing on examples such as the simple experience of riding a bicycle through London, the way we've become sick to death of women', and the environmental abuse of our planet, she shows how every aspect of our lives is dominated by male/female power structures, and forces us to take a step back and see how and why gender inequality has thrown our society out of balance. In Gender on Planet Earth, Oakley argues that the persistence of traditional gender values prevents us from leading more ethical and humane lives. Governed by delusional systems such as psychoanalysis and sociobiology, we assume that the imbalance of the sexes is the inevitable consequence of our genes, psyches and unchangeable economic motives. Drawing from a broad array of literature, Oakley combines personal narrative with social commentary and eye-opening statistics to provide a provocative account of the state we're really in.
Review Text
"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life"....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books
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"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life""....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books
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Influential author and social scientist, Ann Oakley, mounts a devastating argument about the state of our humanity. Oakley shows how every aspect of our lives is dominated by male/female power structures, and forces us to take a step back and see how and why gender inequality has thrown our society out of balance.Argues against the assumption that the imbalance of the sexes is the inevitable consequence of our genes, psyches and unchangeable economic motives.Combines personal narrative with social commentary and eye-opening statistics to provide a provocative account of the state we're really in.
Details ISBN0745629636 Pages 304 Year 2002 ISBN-10 0745629636 ISBN-13 9780745629636 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2002-10-10 Imprint Polity Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 305.3 Edition 1st Language English DOI 10.1604/9780745629636 UK Release Date 2002-10-10 AU Release Date 2002-10-10 NZ Release Date 2002-10-10 Author Ann Oakley Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Alternative 9780745629643 Audience Undergraduate We've got this
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