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Gender transformations / Sylvia Walby.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of sociologyPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415120802
  • 9780415120807
  • 0415120810
  • 9780415120814
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1206 .W2 1997
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Appendix. Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "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 accompanied 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 Theorizing Patriarchy, Gender Transformations 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."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-235) and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Appendix. Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991 -- Bibliography -- Index.

"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 accompanied 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 Theorizing Patriarchy, Gender Transformations 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."--Publisher description.

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