Madhok, Sumi 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3192-6098, Phillips, Anne and Wilson, Kalpana, eds.
(2013)
Gender, agency and coercion.
Thinking gender in transnational times.
Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK.
ISBN 9780230300323
Abstract
This collection aims to think critically about agency and explore the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth. In academic, activist, and policy circles alike, feminist work has re-focused attention onto women as agents rather than as passive victims of overwhelming structures of male institutional power, or less capable of exercising agency by virtue of their class, race, gender or culture. These broadly positive moves are not without risks. Most notably, they can encourage a triumphalist disregard for constraints through an exclusive emphasis on 'discovering' agency even in the least favourable situations, thereby obscuring domination, inequality, and subordination. So how does bringing agency and coercion into closer interplay impact our understanding of the two? How might the stories of feminist agency change if we locate agency and coercion on the same intellectual frame? What would it mean to disrupt the existing constellation of ideas accompanying agency so as to include coercion, subordination and oppression alongside ideas of freedom, autonomy, and independence? How do we theoretically negotiate agency and coercion in conditions of deep inequality? This collection thinks through these questions in a range of regional, intellectual, ethical and political contexts.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.palgrave.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Palgrave Macmillan |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies Government |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2011 10:58 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31384 |
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