Gender Orders Unbound? : Globalisation, Restructuring and Reciprocity / Ilse Lenz, Charlotte Ullrich, Barbara Fersch

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenz, Ilse Prof. Dr., Editor.

Ullrich, Charlotte Dr., Editor.

Fersch, Barbara, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geschlecht.

Globalisierung.

Solidarität.

Local Subjects:

Geschlecht.

Globalisierung.

Solidarität.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 2007

Summary:

The book shows the new gender orders emerging on private and public levels as the old patterns of the industrial era are left behind.

Contents:

The changing economic and political participation of women : hybridization, reversals and contradictions in the context of globalization / Diane Elson

Men, masculinity research and gender justice / Raewyn Connell

Migration, gender, empowerment / Mirjana Morokvasic

Power people, working people, shadow people

: gender, migration, class and practices of (in)equality / Ilse Lenz

The gender-free concept in Japan and transcultural civil society / Michiko Mae

On-line identities and organizational connections : networks of transnational feminist websites / Myra Marx Ferree

Challenges for intersectionality in the transnational organization of European equality movements : forming platforms and maintaining turf in today's European Union / Alison E. Woodward

Between gender mainstreaming, managing diversity and anti-discrimination : what are the implications of the European equality patchwork for migrants? / Helen Schwenken

Soldiers' mothers fighting the military patriarchy : re-invention of responsible activist motherhood for human rights' struggle / Elena Zdravomyslova

Changing the subject : labor regulations and gender (in)equality / Heidi Gottfried

Combining bottom-up and top-down approaches : the gender mainstreaming policy of the International Labour Organization / Verena Schmidt

The livelihood security system and social exclusion : the male breadwinner model revisited / Mari Osawa

Modifying, reforming or transforming gender regimes? : effects of the new women's movement on the German welfare state / Regina-Maria Dackweiler

Gender boundaries in organizational development : body and culture in German police / Ursula Müller

Changes in parenthood and childhood in Europe and their impact on solidarity and reciprocity in the parent-child relationships / Norbert F. Schneider.

Notes:

Most papers were first presented at two international conferences held in the context of the Marie-Jahoda Visiting Professor Programme in International Gender Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, held Nov. 2004 and Feb. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86649-784-9

Publisher Number:

9783866497849