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Market dreams : gender, class, and capitalism in the Czech Republic / Elaine Weiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Elaine, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Czech Republic.
- Sex role.
- Czech Republic--Economic conditions--1993-.
- Czech Republic.
- Economic conditions.
- Czech Republic--Social conditions--1993-.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology and comparative feminism, is an important advance for the literature on women in Eastern Europe.
- Contents:
- 2 Two Logics, One Life 23
- 3 A Velvet Vision: The Economic Liberalization (and Liberation) of the Czech Republic 41
- 4 Rational Economic (Wo)Men: Market Mantras and Managers 69
- 5 No (Wo)Man's Land: The Postsocialist Purgatory of Czech Female Factory Workers 95
- Appendix Sample Demographics 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472026142
- 9780472099887
- 0472099884
- 0472069888
- 9780472069880
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.206852
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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