The Gender of Power

Download or read book The Gender of Power written by Kathy Davis and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on feminist theories of women's oppression and on social theories of power, this book offers original analyses of the relationship between gender and power. The Gender of Power presents a critique of feminist theories of power as simply top-down models of the oppression of women. The authors argue that this notion presents women as passive victims and ignores the diversity and complexity of women's experiences. The ideas on power of Bourdieu, Giddens, Lukes and Foucault are also evaluated in terms of their usefulness in explaining relations between men and women, which can often be covert, consensual and intimate.