Gender, Power and Sexuality

Gender, Power and Sexuality is a collection of original and exciting articles by well-known feminists which makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which men exercise control over girls and women in their daily lives, in the home, at school, at work and in the courts. Women are seen to resent and challenge male power, but, the institutionalisation of male power is shown to mitigate against women taking control over their own lives.

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Abbott & C.Wallace - Women's Oppression in the World and in Ourselves: a Fresh Look at Feminism and Psychoanalysis; C.New - Women and Citizenship: the Insane, the Insolvent and the Inanimate?; Y.Summers - Money and Power in Marriage; J.Pahl - Feminist Sociology and Educational Change: Studying the Reforms of School Governing Bodies; R.Deem - Human-centred Systems...Women-centred Systems? Gender Divisions and Office Computer Systems Design; E.Green, J.Owen, D.Pain & I.Stone - Young Women, Harassment and Heterosexuality: Violence, Power Relations and Mixed Secondary Schooling; J.Halson - Gender Issues in Inter-Agency Relations: Police, Probation and Social Services; A.Sampson, D.Smith, G.Pearson, H.Blagg & P.Stubbs - Policing 'domestic violence'; S.Edwards - Penetrating Women's Bodies: the Problem of Law and Medical Technology; C.Smart - Index