| Gender Transformations Contributor(s): Walby, Sylvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415120802 ISBN-13: 9780415120807 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: 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 accompanied 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 "Theorizing Patriarchy," "Gender Transformations" 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| LCCN: 96046222 |
| Series: International Library of Sociology (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.34" W x 9.42" (1.17 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |