Gender Transformations / Edition 1

by Sylvia Walby

Overview

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 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 Theorising Patriarchy, Transforming Gender 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415120807
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/19/1997
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sylvia Walby is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the author of Theorising Patriarchy (1990) and Patriarchy at Work (1986).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

The successor to Walby's classic will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur. She charts changes in women's employment, education, and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, and between local conditions and global pressures which together determine the place of women both in the labor market and in the wider social, political and economic world of today. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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