Women of the European Union : the politics of work and daily life /

Women of the European Union challenges gender- blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the Union's policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States.

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Other Authors: Garcia i Ramon, Maria Dolors (Editor), Monk, Janice J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Series:Routledge international studies of women and place.
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Table of Contents:
  • Placing women of the European Union / Janice Monk and Maria Dolors García-Ramon
  • The Geography of gender and welfare in Europe / Eleonore Kofman and Rosemary Sales
  • Women's work and everyday life in southern Europe in the context of European integration / Dina Vaiou
  • The Diverse worlds of European patriarchy / Simon Duncan
  • An Equal place to work? Anti-lesbian discrimination and sexual citizenship in the European Union / Gill Valentine
  • Family policies and working mothers : a comparison of France and West Germany / Jeanne Fagnani
  • At the centre on the periphery? Women in the Portuguese labor market / Isabel Margarida André
  • Contrasting developments in female labour force participation in East and West Germany since 1945 / Jürgen Schmude
  • The Politics of cultural identity: Thai women in Germany / Eva Humbeck
  • From informal felixibility to the new organization of time / Paola Vinay
  • City and suburb : contexts for Dutch women's work and daily lives / Joos Droogleever Fortuijn
  • Family, gender and urban life : stability and change in a Copenhagen neighbourhood / Kirsten Simonsen
  • Regional welfare policies and women's agricultural labour in southern Spain / Maria Dolors García-Ramon and Josefina Cruz
  • Women's integration into the labour market and rural industrialization in Spain: gender relations and the global economy / Ana Sabaté-Martinez.