Sex crime in the news

This systematic study, based on 5000 newspapers over a 40 year period, considers the way in which newspapers have reported sex crimes. The study reveals that much of the reportage is trivial, whilst serious studies of sex crimes and law reform are given short shrift in the popular press. The number of sex crimes, particularly rape, reported to the police has risen in recent years and public concern is mounting. The authors show that, despite this, the media typically ignores the wider issues raised by concerned groups, preferring to highlight a few unusual cases. The increasing gap between the reality of sexual abuse and the reportage of it in the press, raises, argue the authors, broad concerns about relationships between the media, the individual and the state. The book is intended to be of use to people working in the media, to legislators involved in debates about the press, to students working in women's studies, cultural and media studies and those working in the field of deviancy.

Sex Crime in the News

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Soothill, Keith

Walby, Sylvia

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Routledge

Gender Transformations (International Library of Sociology)

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanid by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment, education and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, between local conditions and global pressures which together determine the place of women both in the labour market and in the wider social, political and economic world of today. An eagerly awaited successor to Walby's classic Theorising Patriarchy, Transforming Gender will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

Sylvia Walby's book is a new approach to the analysis of patriarchy. It is both a theoretical overview and a synthesis of research findings on the subject by both feminists and non-feminists over the last two decades. The scope of the author's discussion of patriarchial relations in western history is broad - she examines their bearing upon sexuality, violence, the state, cultural institutions, and the household, as well as employment. Having considered existing explanations of gender inequality, such as those provided by role theory, marxist and radical feminists, Dr Walby applies her own theory to answer the crucial question of what exactly it is that forms the basis of men's psychological, legal, and institutional advantage over women.

Theorizing Patriarchy

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blackwell Pub.

Sylvia Walby provides an overview of recent theoretical debates - Marxism, radical and liberal feminism, post-structuralism and dual systems theory. She shows how each can be applied to a range of substantive topics from paid work, housework and the state, to culture, sexuality and violence, relying on the most up-to-date empirical findings. Arguing that patriarchy has been vigorously adaptable to the changes in women's position, and that some of women's hard-won social gains have been transformed into new traps, Walby proposes a combination of class analysis with radical feminist theory to explain gender relations in terms of both patriarchal and capitalist structure.

Wiley/Blackwell

The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism. She rejects those accounts which treat patriarchy as a unified set of relations, or which confine the site of patriarchy to any one privileged sphere such as the family. Instead, she elaborates a novel view of patriarchy as a set of 'relatively autonomous relations', the connections between which are spelled out through a variety of detailed case studies. In contrast to many other views of 'capitalist patriarchy', Sylvia Walby characterizes the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy as a relationship, not of harmony and mutual accommodation, but of tension and conflict. This thesis is substantiated through a comparative historical analysis of three contrasting areas of employment: cotton textiles, engineering and clerical work. These analyses show the shortcomings of much conventional literature in sociology, history and economics on women's employment, which pays insufficient attention to the independence of patriarchal relations. The book draws upon sociological, historical, economic and geographic materials to argue for an understanding of gender relations in terms of the specific tensions and compromises between patriarchal and capitalist relations. Exploring the impact of the state on patterns of employment and unemployment completes a book rich in theoretical and empirical analysis. Patriarchy at Work will be recognized as a major contribution to feminist thought and the social sciences.

Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment, 1800-1984 (Feminist Perspectives from Polity Press)

Business & Money

Economics

Polity

The Future of Feminism

Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain. Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. 
 In The Future of Feminism, Sylvia Walby offers a provocative riposte to the notion that feminism is dead. Substantiating her arguments with evidence of the vibrancy of contemporary feminism in civil society and beyond, she provides a succinct yet comprehensive critical review of recent treatments of feminism explaining why they have got it wrong. The book provides the definitive account of feminism's new and varied projects, goals, alliances and organizational forms, including feminism as a global wave. It offers engaged accounts of feminist activities across a range of domains in the economy, polity, violence and civil society. Successful feminist projects are not always named as feminist, sometimes being mainstreamed into coalitions with social democratic and global human rights activists. Feminism is now global, though also taking local forms, and these new coalitions are the basis for the future of feminism. On the future of feminism depends not only the future of gender inequality but the future of social inequality more generally.

Theorizing Violence

Violence is increasing on many measures. As criminal justice and security interventions become more punitive, rising inequalities diminish the resources needed for resilience. When all governments proclaim the need to end violence, how can we make sense of this? &nbsp; Sylvia Walby offers new ways to theorize violence, placing it at the centre of society, not the periphery, and rethinking the relationship between violence and security. Arguing for an integrated analysis of internal and external security within a theory of society, she shows how neoliberal transformations have led to the growth of violence. Understanding these changes requires gendering theories of the state, the economy and civil society. With securitization growing while welfare and the regulation of the economy shrink, Walby uses complexity science to investigate the contradictions in state responses. &nbsp; Crucially, this book offers a way forward, drawing on inspirational practices and cutting-edge social theory, to better understand violence and the causes of its variations.

Sociology

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Sex Crime in the News

Gender Transformations (International Library of Sociology)

Gender Transformations (International Library of Sociology)

Theorizing Patriarchy

Theorizing Patriarchy

Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment, 1800-1984 (Feminist Perspectives from Polity Press)

The Future of Feminism

The Future of Feminism

Theorizing Violence

Theorizing Violence