Gender Transformations

ISBN-13: 9780415120814 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str.

Sylvia Walby

Opis

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanid by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment, education and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, between local conditions and global pressures which together determine the place of women both in the labour market and in the wider social, political and economic world of today.
An eagerly awaited successor to Walby's classic Theorising Patriarchy, Transforming Gender will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

Spis treści

1 INTRODUCTION 2 RECENT CHANGES IN GENDER RELATIONS IN EMPLOYMENT 3 FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHANGING SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR 4 LOCALITIES AND GENDER RESTRUCTURING 5 SEX SEGREGATION IN LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS 6 LABOUR MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES IN WOMEN’S WORKING LIVES 7 GENDER POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY 8 ‘BACKLASH’ TO FEMINISM 9 IS CITIZENSHIP GENDERED? 10 WOMAN AND NATION 11 GENDER AND EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION: TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER

O autorze

Sylvia Walby is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of Theorising Patriarchy (1990) and Patriarchy at Work (1986).