Gender, economy, and culture in the European Union / / edited by Simon Duncan and Birgit Pfau-Effinger

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3094
• Soggetto topico: Sex discrimination against women - European Union countries; Sex role - European Union countries; Sexual division of labor - European Union countries
• Altri autori: DuncanSimon Pfau-EffingerBirgit
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction: theorising comparative gender inequality: Simon Duncan; 1.1 Issues: the spatiality of gender; 1.2 Theorising gender spatiality at the national level - from gendered welfare regimes to local gender cultures; 1.3 Theorising gender spatiality at the local level- from spatial divisions of labour to local gender cultures; 1.4 Afterword; Part I: Gender divisions of Iabour s- paid and unpaid work ; 2. Paid work: participation, inclusion and liberation: Gunnel Forsberg, Lena Ganäs and Diane Perrons2.1 Issues: mappingthe inequality - an explanatory approach; 2.2 Patterns: gender inequality in paid employment; 2.3 Explanations:gender regimes) cultures and contracts; 2.4 Afterword; 3. Households and families: Changing living arrangements and gender relations: Mariafose Gonzalez Lopez and Montserrat Solsona Pairo; 3.1 Issues: changinggender relations and living arrangements; 3.2 Patterns: new and old households across European states ; 3.3 Explanations: the role of women in inducing family change3.4 Afterword; 4. Reconciling divisions of labour: Eileen P. Drew; 4.1 Issues: patriarchy, paid workand the household; 4.2 Patterns: gendered divisions of labour in markets and households; 4.3 Explanations; 4.4 Afterword; Part II: Gender divisions of power - citizenship, rights and control; 5. Gender and European welfare states: context, structure and agency: Henrik Bang, Per H. Jensen and Birgit Pfau-Effinger; 5.1 Issues: the needto contextualise welfare state policies ; 5.2 Patterns: variations in the gender policies of welfare statesandproblems of interpretation5.3 Explanations: welfare state policies in the context of gender arrangements; 5.4 Afterword: from essentialism to anti-essentialism in gender analysis; 6. Gender, migration and social inequalities: the dilemmas of European citizenship: Marina Calloni and Helma Lutz; 6.1 Issues: gender, contracts and citizenship; 6.2 Patterns: migration in post-war Europe; 6.3 Explanations: feminised migration - the case of female domestic workers ; 6.4 Aftenoord: multiculturalism, globalisation and cosmopolitanism: towards a negotiated citizenship7. Male violence and control: constructing a comparative European perspective: Carol Hagemann-White; 7.1 Issues; 7.2 Patterns; 7.3 Explanations; 7.4 Afterword: heterosexuality, violence and culture; Part III: Gendered understandings - cultures and values; 8. Challenging and negotiating the myths: gender divisionsin the situation comedy: Liza Tsaliki; 8.1 Issues: differentiated gender cultures and the sitcom; 8.2 Patterns: the sitcom andgender representations ; 8.3 Explanations: gender cultures and sitcom representation
• Sommario/riassunto: Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues. From employment and households, to culture, sexuality and male violence, the book transcends any 'economy/culture' divide. This wide coverage is placed within a conceptual view of structured 'gender cultures' which vary spatially and historically. Individual chapters are written around this common theme by an expert board of international contributors, drawn from a variety of intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds, allowing the reader to compare between chapte
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, economy, and culture in the European Union
• ISBN: 1-134-55450-8; 1-282-37318-8; 9786612373183; 1-283-60470-1; 9786613917157; 1-134-55451-6; 0-203-18601-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783707803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 5.