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Diana Mulinari

Diana Mulinari

Senior Professor

Diana Mulinari

A feminist re-reading of theories of late modernity: Beck, Giddens and the location of gender

Författare

  • Diana Mulinari
  • Kerstin Sandell

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Genusvetenskap

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

Aktiv

Inpress

Projekt

  • 2003-2165 Theorizing social change in feminist thinking

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0896-9205