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BEYOND PATRIARCHY? THEORISING GENDER AND CLASS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

HEIDI GOTTFRIED
HEIDI GOTTFRIED
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, 1365 Stone Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1365, USA
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Abstract

This paper questions recent attempts by feminists to move theory beyond patriarchy, addressing the charge by Pollert that the concept of patriarchy impoverishes analysis of gender and class. In place of patriarchy, the author advocates an alternative feminist historical materialist analysis of hegemonic practices as the means for excavating gender and class from lived experience. This mode of historical materialist theorising rejects the concept of patriarchy as unnecessarily abstract and unable to advance knowledge about the construction of gender in practice. A theory of practice can make sense of the mess of everyday life, and focus research on gendered bodies, spaces and experiences.

Keywords

Classgenderhegemonypatriarchypractice
Type
Research Article
Information
Sociology , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , August 1998 , pp. 451 - 468
Copyright
© 1998 BSA Publications Ltd

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