Review by Choice Review
Social scientist Browne (Cambridge) brings together 11 interdisciplinary scholars who critically examine the efficacy of the concept of gender for social analysis and as the basis for a progressive politics. The essays successfully complicate the discussion of gender, engaging with contemporary debates in a wide range of fields including political theory and evolutionary psychology. Nancy Fraser's essay, which proposes a transnational politics of representation as a future direction of feminist politics, offers a particularly insightful rereading of feminist history and a solid basis for further debates about how to shape feminism under globalization. However, despite Fraser's claim for a transnational turn, the volume limits itself overall to largely Euro-American contexts, and calls for more in-depth discussion of the intersection of gender with other significant axes of inequality, such as race and class, in postcolonial nation-states as well as in Euro-America. Taken as a whole, this collection is an important contribution to the field of gender and women's studies as well as to social theory, and has scholarly merit for graduate students and gender researchers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty. H. Y. Choo University of Wisconsin--Madison
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Review by Choice Review
