256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Sylvia Walby is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of Theorising Patriarchy (1990) and Patriarchy at Work (1986).
