Sylvia Walby is a sociologist and social scientist, professor in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, known for her work on social and complexity theory, gender regimes and patriarchy, violence and society including domestic violence and human trafficking, gender relations in the workplace, and globalization. She was elected founding president of the European Sociological Association in 1997, and in 2008 became the first holder of the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University, where she led the associated UNESCO Gender Research Group. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.
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Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the concept of gender regimes, differentiating patriarchy into structures of economy, polity, violence and civil society, extending the theory through complexity and intersectionality. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountTheorizing Patriarchy (1990) 1 Connections
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Walby Theorizing Patriarchy identified distinct structures, household, paid work, the state, violence, sexuality and culture, through which patriarchy operates.
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1. Sylvia Walby (Wikipedia)
WikipediaGender Regimes, Patriarchy section: contribution
established a way of conceptualising patriarchy that differentiated between structures of economy (paid and unpaid), polity, violence and civil society (including sexuality)
Gender Regimes, Patriarchy section: notable work
Her early books, Patriarchy at Work (1986) and Theorizing Patriarchy (1990) established a way of conceptualising patriarchy
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