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The inside cover notes for this new account of the work of Simone de Beauvoir include the remark from Kate Kirkpatrick that ‘(Beauvoir) wondered if she had sold herself short’. I am not quite sure ...

The relationship of women to conditions of material austerity is often characterised as having two main themes: women as recipients of charity and the question of which women are entitled to various forms of charitable and state assistance. This paper discusses the ways in which discourses about women and charity are highly moralised, assuming both that women are unlikely to ‘ask for more’ and that women have to be ‘good’ and ‘respectable’ in order to deserve public assistance. In the concluding section, the paper considers the ways in which women’s ‘respectability’ has become associated with participation in the labour market, and the various ways in which this constitutes a new form of the ‘deserving’ female poor.

Synopsis Women's/Gender Studies remains a vibrant subject within UK universities. This article outlines the major current concerns whilst at the same time tracing links between the subject and other social and political changes in Britain.

In the UK, the Coalition Government has launched policies that have been presented as necessary to ensure continued economic viability. This article challenges the thinking behind these policies and considers the particular impact that the policies have on women as well as suggesting that feminism has to respond to the long-term structural implications of capitalism.

In this article the argument is made that the increased concern with the nature of contemporary love relationships overlooks the extent to which such a concern has been a feature of western culture throughout history. Examining these narratives of romantic love challenges the assumption that perceived changes to attitudes towards love, marriage and intimacy are unique characteristics limited to the context of the late 20th century. Thus the need to recognize both continuity and change in seeking to assess and theorize the nature of intimate relationships.

In 1974 the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference chose as its theme the issue of Sexual Divisions in Society. That conference produced two volumes of essays and began what became an extended discussion about the relationship of Sociology to feminism and of feminism to Sociology (Barker and Allen, 1976a, 1976b). The consensus of the essays published in the two volumes of papers from that 1974 conference was that Sociology was deficient in its attention to women and saturated with the assumption of the human as the male human, an assumption that, it was argued, also dominated other academic disciplines. From that BSA conference, the collected papers did much to challenge this taken-for-granted-view and set the scene for the emergence of a considerable volume of work about and by women. At that conference too, it was not just Sociology as an academic discipline that was challenged but also Sociology as a profession: a profession in which, it was argued, those all important networks of appointment, promotion and publication were dominated by men and male interests. Certainly, the empirical evidence for this assertion was considerable: there were women in the profession but their numbers were small. Even the most fervent denier of sexual discrimination would have difficulty in refusing to recognise at least a degree of exclusion. It is also worth pointing out here that those long gone days were days before the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990), a book which proved to be one of the most important challenges to conventional, literal, understandings of gender since the eating of the forbidden fruit led Adam to realise that the categories of biological male and female existed.

Introduction - Mary Evans PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY Introduction - Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality - Lorraine Code Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge - Astrida Neimanis Feminist Auto/Biography - Gayle Letherby Power in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine Grenz Women's "Lived Experience": Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Present - Sonia Kruks What Do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis - Kirsten Campbell Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity - Sian Hawthorne Religion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology - Mary Evans PART TWO: LITERARY, VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION Introduction - Sadie Wearing What Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake - Samantha McBean On Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother- Daughter Relation in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce - Amber Jacobs The Space of a Movement: Life-Writing Against Racism - Vron Ware Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory - Anna Reading Feminism and Pornography - Karen Boyle Representing Women in Popular Culture - Imelda Whelehan "It's all about shopping": The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism - Hatty Oliver PART THREE: SEXUALITY Introduction - Clare Hemmings (It's not all) Kylie concerts, exotic cocktails and gossip: The Appearance of Sexuality through 'Gay' Asylum in the UK - Emma Spruce Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon & Elspeth Probyn Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches - Rosemary Hennessy Transnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques - Michelle Wright States of Sexuality: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance - Jyoti Puri The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation - Rutvica Andrijasevic Sexuality, Subjectivity and... Political Economy? - Clare Hemmings PART FOUR: ECONOMY - Ania Plomien Homo Oeconomicus and 'His' Impact on Gendered Societies - Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger Integrating Gender in Economic Analysis - Maria S. Floro Essentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modeling Strategy - Wendy Sigle-Rushton Feminist Perspectives on Care: Theory,Practice and Policy - Susan Himmelweit & Ania Plomien Power, Privilege and Precarity: the Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Inequality - Robin Dunford & Diane Perrons Macroeconomic Governance in the European Union: Reconfiguration of Power Structures and Erosion of Gender Equality - Elisabeth Klatzer & Christa Schlager Gender, Class and Location in the Global Economy - Drucilla Barker & Edith Kuiper Social Protection - Corina Rodriguez-Enriquez PART FIVE: WAR, VIOLENCE AND MILITARISATION - Marsha Henry Female Combatants, Feminism and 'Just' War - Laura Sjoberg Soldiering on: Pushing Militarized Masculinities into New Territory - Jane L. Parpart & Kevin Partridge Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide - Adam Jones Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings - Maria Eriksson Baaz & Maria Stern (En) Gendered Terror: Feminist Approaches to Political Violence - Swati Parashar

(2001). Gender and the Literature of the Holocaust: The Diary of Etty Hillesum. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 325-335.

This article suggests that an understanding of love which allowed for a rational discourse about human relationships was proposed at the time of the Enlightenment but was subsequently contested and replaced by an ideology of romantic love. Romantic love, far from emancipating human understanding and behaviour, trapped individuals in a narrow and often negative set of expectations and aspirations.

This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term. Taking a truly interdisciplinary and global view of gender studies, concepts covered include: •Agency •Diaspora •Heteronormativity •Subjectivity •Performativity •Class •Feminist Politics •Body •Gender identity •Reflexivity. With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout the text, Gender: The Key Concepts unweaves the relationships between different aspects of the field defined as gender studies, and is essential for all those studying gender in interdisciplinary contexts as undergraduates, postgraduates and beyond.

Many mothers are keen to see more males working in early years settings. Mary Evans explains how Paint Pots is leading the way.

This paper challenges the shift away from Women's Studies to Gender Studies. The author argues that this shift allows the study of difference between the sexes to replace that of the study of sexual inequality and the social subordination of women.

This new edition of The Woman Question brings together the most influential analyses of women's position in society to have emerged in the past decade. The discussion encompasses both theoretical issues of identity and the economic and political status of women. It demonstrates the impact of gender not only on how the social world is organized but on how we understand and interpret that world. Recognizing the diversity of women's experiences, it pays particular attention to the interactions of race, class, gender and sexuality. Leading feminists explore the concept of gender difference, its impact on women and its representation in culture. They discuss the material realities of women's lives and how these are differentiated by race. They examine women's relation to powerful institutions, especially the state, and analyze the successes, failures and contradictions of feminist politics.