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

Contributor(s): Garcia i Ramon, Maria Dolors | Monk, Janice J.
Series: Routledge international studies of women and place.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415118794; 9780415118798:; 0415118808 (paper).Subject(s): Women -- European Union countries -- Social conditions | Women -- Employment -- European Union countries | Work and family -- European Union countries | Women Social conditions | Western EuropeDDC classification: 305.4094
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.
Summary: This book challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of E.U. policies to examine the real implications of union for the diversity of women in the member states and analyse how women's lives are shaped by the policies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This book challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of E.U. policies to examine the real implications of union for the diversity of women in the member states and analyse how women's lives are shaped by the policies.

Includes bibliographical references and index

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