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Gender transformations / Sylvia Walby.

By: Walby, Sylvia.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: International Library of Sociologyedited by John Urry.Publisher: London : Routledge, 1997Description: x, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415120802 (v) (hbk); 0415120810 (m) (pbk).Subject(s): Women -- Social conditions | Women -- Economic conditions | Women -- Employment | Sex discrimination against womenDDC classification: 305.42
Contents:
Introduction -- Recent changes in gender relations in employment -- Flexibility and the changing sexual division of labour -- Localities and gender restructuring -- Sex segregation in local labour markets -- Labour markets and industrial structures in women's working lives -- Gender politics and social theory -- 'Backlash' to feminism -- Is citizenship gendered? -- Woman and nation -- Gender and European Union integration: towards a political economy of gender.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Bibliography: (pages 216-235) and index.

Introduction -- Recent changes in gender relations in employment -- Flexibility and the changing sexual division of labour -- Localities and gender restructuring -- Sex segregation in local labour markets -- Labour markets and industrial structures in women's working lives -- Gender politics and social theory -- 'Backlash' to feminism -- Is citizenship gendered? -- Woman and nation -- Gender and European Union integration: towards a political economy of gender.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • 2 Recent Changes in Gender Relations in Employment (p. 22)
  • 3 Flexibility and the Changing Sexual Division of Labour (p. 66)
  • 4 Localities and Gender Restructuring (p. 80)
  • 5 Sex Segregation in Local Labour Markets (p. 100)
  • 6 Labour Markets and Industrial Structures in Women's Working Lives (p. 120)
  • 7 Gender Politics and Social Theory (p. 137)
  • 8 'Backlash' to Feminism (p. 156)
  • 9 Is Citizenship Gendered? (p. 166)
  • 10 Woman and Nation (p. 180)
  • 11 Gender and European Union Integration: Towards a Political Economy of Gender (p. 197)
  • Bibliography (p. 216)
  • Index (p. 236)

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