Book Reviews: Modern Italian Social Theory, Philosophy and the Human Sciences, Thinking about Social Thinking — The Philosophy of the Social Sciences, The Nature of Historical Knowledge, Theories of Social Change, The Urbanisation of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanisation, Islam and the Destiny of Man, Turkey in the World Capitalist System, Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Class, Politics and the Economy, Social Mobility and Social Structure, Research Methods for Elite Studies, Women's Work, Class, and the Urban Household: A Study of Shimla, North India, Unemployment under Capitalism: The Sociology of British and American Labour Markets, Young Adults in the Labour Market, The Experience of Unemployment, The Future of Democracy, Models of Democracy, Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism, New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, Sport, Leisure and Social Relations, Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today

Chapter 3 engages with realist political theory throughcritical dialogues with leading realist theorists. It argues that realist political theories are much more susceptible to conservatism, distortion, and idealization than their proponents typically acknowledge. Realism is often not very realistic either in its descriptions of the world or in its political analysis. While realism enables the critical analysis of political norms (the analysis of power and unmasking of ideology), it cannot support substantive normative critique of existing social relations or enable prescriptive theorizing. These two types of critique must be integrated into a single theoretical framework to facilitate emancipatory social transformation.

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In Search of a Radical Discourse for Theatre

New Theatre Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0266464x00006291 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 8 (29) ◽

pp. 34-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dorrian Lambley

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Relations ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Doctoral Thesis ◽

The Subject ◽

The University

How to accommodate and utilize the insights and the methodology of marxism – and, simply, its potential as a vehicle for social change – at a time when the popular perception of its political ideology stands discredited? Dorrian Lambley explores the dilemma through the specifics of developments in British theatre since 1968 – the stifling of the early radical impulses under political and economic pressures, which has produced, at best, a sense of marginalization, at worst a conviction of impotence. In proposing ways of working within this situation, Lambley draws on the writings of dramatists such as Edward Bond to suggest that marxism must recognize the most important of the liberal humanist emphases – ‘the presence of the subject’, but perceived within a marxist understanding of social relations. Dorrian Lambley is presently working on her doctoral thesis in the University of Exeter, where she helped to organize the conference ‘Theatre and the Discourses of Power’, on which she wrote in the ‘Reports and Announcements’ section of NTQ28 (1991).

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Women's work, class and the urban household: A study of Shimla, North India

Women s Studies International Forum ◽

10.1016/0277-5395(87)90014-8 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 550

Author(s):

Liz Stanley

Keyword(s):

Women's Work ◽

North India ◽

Urban Household ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Work Class

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