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Record Nr.

UNISA996199873803316

Autore

Walby Sylvia

Titolo

Gender transformations / / Sylvia Walby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-80944-1

0-415-12080-2

1-134-80945-X

1-280-06822-1

0-203-43115-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - Social conditions

Women - Economic conditions

Women - Employment

Sex discrimination against women

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 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

APPENDIX: Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This important book 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.