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Author | : Torben Iversen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300153104 |
This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, the authors demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions.--[book jacket].
Author | : Judith G. Coffin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400864321 |
Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential "working girl," and the sewing machine the icon of "modern" femininity. The intense speculation and worry that swirled around both helped define many issues of gender and labor that concern us today. Here Judith Coffin presents a fascinating history of the Parisian garment industry, from the unraveling of the guilds in the late 1700s to the first minimum-wage bill in 1915. She explores how issues related to working women took shape and how gender became fundamental to the modern social division of labor and our understanding of it. Combining the social history of women's labor and the intellectual history of nineteenth-century social science and political economy, Coffin sets many questions in their fullest cultural context: What constituted "women's" work? Did women belong in the industrial labor force? Why was women's work equated with low pay? Should not a woman enjoy status as an enlightened homemaker/consumer? The author examines patterns of consumption as well as production, setting out, for example, the links among the newly invented sewing machine, changes in the labor force, and the development of advertising, with its shifting and often unsettling visual representations of women, labor, and machinery. Throughout, Coffin challenges the conventional categories of work, home, and women's identity. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Diana Garvin |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-02-07 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1487528183 |
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women's efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
Author | : Louise A. Tilly |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 1990-06-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610445341 |
Women, Politics, and Change, a compendium of twenty-three original essays by social historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists, examines the political history of American women over the past one hundred years. Taking a broad view of politics, the contributors address voluntarism and collective action, women's entry into party politics through suffrage and temperance groups, the role of nonpartisan organizations and pressure politics, and the politicization of gender. Each chapter provides a telling example of how American women have behaved politically throughout the twentieth century, both in the two great waves of feminist activism and in less highly mobilized periods. "The essays are unusually well integrated, not only through the introductory material but through a similarity of form and extensive cross-references among them....in raising central questions about the forms, bases, and issues of women's politics, as well as change and continuity over time, Tilly, Gurin, and the individual scholars included in this collection have provided us with a survey of the latest research and an agenda for the future." —Contemporary Sociology "This book is a necessary addition to the scholar's bookshelf, and the student's curriculum." —Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, professor of sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Author | : Susan Ferguson |
Publisher | : Mapping Social Reproduction Theory |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Arbejde |
ISBN | : 9780745338729 |
An analysis of the divergent strands of feminism, as the fight for women's emancipation takes centre stage.
Author | : Susan Sherwin |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781566396332 |
Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.
Author | : Joan Wallach Scott |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231118576 |
An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.
Author | : Johanna Brenner |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1583670106 |
Drawing on explorations of the labour movement and working-class politics, Brenner provides a materialist approach to one of the most important issues of feminist theory today: ethnicity, the intersection of race, nationality, gender, sexuality and class.
Author | : Kathi Weeks |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2011-09-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822351129 |
The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.
Author | : Lynne Ford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 042998264X |
Women and Politics is a comprehensive examination of women's use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. How can demands for gender equality be reconciled with sex differences? Resolving this paradoxical question has proceeded along two paths: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender neutrality, and the fairness doctrine, which recognizes differences between men and women. The text's clear analysis and presentation of theory and history helps students to think critically about the difficulties faced by women in politics, and about how public policies in education, labour and the economy, and family and fertility, impact gender equality. The fully-revised fourth edition explores new critical perspectives, recent political events, and current challenges to gender equality, including the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton's candidacy, the fight for equal pay and paid leave, and the debate over reproductive rights and campus sexual assault. It also includes current scholarship on the intersections of race, class, and gender, and expanded coverage of minority women, women in the military, and conservative women. This text, and its two-path framework, is essential to understanding women's pursuit of equality via the political system.