Gender and family among transnational professionals /
edited by Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter.
- xiii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
- Routledge international studies of women and place ; 8 .
- Routledge international studies of women and place ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter -- The Shell Ladies' project : making and remaking home / Leonie Gordon -- Shopping for a hypernational home : how expatriate women in Kathmandu labour to assuage fear / Heather Hindman -- Travelling together? work, intimacy, and home amongst British expatriate couples in Dubai / Katie Walsh -- The German school in London, UK : fostering the next generation of national cosmopolitans? / Fiona Moore -- Moving experiences : responses to relocation among British military wives / Sue Jervis -- Making multiple migrations : the life of British diplomatic families overseas / Anne Coles -- Becoming a feminist in Aidland / Rosalind Eyben -- At work and at play in the 'fishbowl' : gender relations and social reproduction among development expatriates in Madagascar / Ritu Verma -- From 'incorporated wives' to 'expat girls' : a new generation of expatriate women? / Anne-Meike Fechter -- 'Coming to China changed my life' : gender roles and relations among single British migrants / Katie D. Willis and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.
041539600X 9780415396004
2007009503
Working mothers--Employment Married women--Employment Work and family Expatriation--Psychological aspects Employees--Relocation