Defing women : social institutions and gender divisions / edited by Linda McDowell and Rosemary Pringle.

Includes an index

Power : now you see it, now you don't : a woman's guide to how power works / Aveen Maguire -- Vanishing acts in social and political thought : tricks of the trade / Beverly Thiele -- Feminist theory : the private and the public / Linda J. Nicholson -- On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs -- What is the family? Is it universal? / Diana Gittins -- Narrow definitions of culture : the case of early motherhood / Ann Phoenix -- Bocas : a daughter's geography / Ntozake Shange -- Classing the women and gendering the class / Anne Phillips -- Contextualizing feminism : gender, ethnic and class divisions / Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis -- Work and employment / Ray E. Pahl -- What is a housewife? / Ann Oakley -- A theory of marriage / Christine Delphy -- Life without father : reconsidering socialist-feminist theory / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Women and consumer capitalism / Rosemary Pringle.

Women's employment in France and Britain : some problems of comparison / Veronica Beechey -- Sex and skill in the organization of the clothing industry / Angela Coyle -- What is a secretary? / Rosemary Pringle -- Private experiences in the public domain : lesbians in organizations / Marny Hall -- Gender divisions in a post-Fordist era : new contradictions or the same old story? / Linda McDowell -- Feminism, equality and difference / Anne Phillips -- The patriarchal welfare state / Carole Pateman -- Deconstructing equality-versus-difference : or, the uses of post-structuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott -- Feminism and fundamentalism in Britain / Ruth Pearson -- Declaration of an independence I would have just as soon not have / June Jordan -- Feminism and liberation / Caroline Ramazanoglu.