List of figures and tables page vii
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 The political interests of gender revisited: reconstructing feminist theory and political research Anna G. Jonasdottir Kathleen B. Jones 1
2 Out of epistemology: feminist theory in the 1980s and beyond Anna G. Jonasdottir Kathleen B. Jones 17
3 Feminist questions, Marx's method and the theorisation of 'love power' Anna G. Jonasdottir 58
4 Empowerment, development and women's liberation Ann Ferguson 84
5 To teach 'the correct procedure for love': matrilineal cultures and the nation state Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke 104
6 Confronting power and politics: a feminist theorising of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean societies Eudine Barriteau 122
7 Men, power and the problem of gender equality policy implementation Ingrid Pincus 149
8 Explanations of internal sex segregation in a male dominated profession: the police force Berit Aberg 167
9 Queer citizenship/queer representation: politics out of bounds? Kathleen B. Jones Sue Dunlap 189
10 Injecting a woman's voice: conservative women's organisations, gender consciousness and the expression of women's policy preferences Ronnee Schreiber 208
11 Women in movement: transformations in African political landscapes Aili Mari Tripp 230
12 European Central Bank, monetary policy and the 'social Europe' Brigitte Young 255
13 Private pain/public peace: women's rights as human rights and Amnesty International's report on violence against women Gillian Youngs 275
Index 296