Maxine Molyneux
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Maxine Molyneux is a sociologist whose work focuses on the women's movement.
That women's interests and gender interests are different categories is the discovery for which Maxine Molyneux is most frequently cited. Her focus is women's movements and her central question is how they and the state influence each other. Interests and law are the categories under which she examines the changeable and shapeable relationship of the gender order and the state. She wants to bring back the state and the political subject into the thinking on modernisation, democratisation and development.
Molyneux studied sociology at the University of Essex and is now Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research, as well the influential distinction between gender needs and interests, deals with such subjects as society and development, poverty and social inequality, and gender and politics in Latin America. She is also a consultant to several United Nations organisations, as well as to Oxfam
and other NGOs. As co-founder in 1979 of the noted magazine Feminist Review and an editor of the magazine Economy and Society
, she is involved in the further development of debates on theory.
See her homepage: http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/about/maxine.html
Molyneux was formerly married to Professor Fred Halliday
; the couple had a son.
studies. She is the author among others of:
She has co-authored:
She is co-editor of:
That women's interests and gender interests are different categories is the discovery for which Maxine Molyneux is most frequently cited. Her focus is women's movements and her central question is how they and the state influence each other. Interests and law are the categories under which she examines the changeable and shapeable relationship of the gender order and the state. She wants to bring back the state and the political subject into the thinking on modernisation, democratisation and development.
Molyneux studied sociology at the University of Essex and is now Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research, as well the influential distinction between gender needs and interests, deals with such subjects as society and development, poverty and social inequality, and gender and politics in Latin America. She is also a consultant to several United Nations organisations, as well as to Oxfam
Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working in 98 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives...
and other NGOs. As co-founder in 1979 of the noted magazine Feminist Review and an editor of the magazine Economy and Society
Economy and Society
Economy and Society is a book by political economist and sociologist Max Weber, published posthumously in Germany in 1922 by his wife Marianne. Alongside The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, it is considered to be one of Weber's most important works...
, she is involved in the further development of debates on theory.
See her homepage: http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/about/maxine.html
Molyneux was formerly married to Professor Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday
Frederick Halliday, FBA was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.-Biography:Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1946 to an English father, businessman Arthur Halliday, and an...
; the couple had a son.
Publications
Molyneux has written extensively in the fields of political sociology and gender and developmentGender and Development
The Gender and Development approach is a way of determining how best to structure development projects and programs based on analysis of gender relationships...
studies. She is the author among others of:
- Women's Movements in International Perspective (ILAS/Palgrave) 2000
- Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America:Mothers at the Service of the State? (UNRISD) 2007
She has co-authored:
- Doing the Rights Thing (with Sian Lazar)(ITDG) 2003
- The Ethiopian Revolution NLB/Verso 1980 (with Fred Halliday)
She is co-editor of:
- Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America (2000) Duke UP
- Gender Justice, Development and Rights 2003 (OUP)
- Gender and Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave 2002)
- The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas of Feminist Praxis (forthcoming).