Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-235) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Recent Changes in Gender Relations in Employment -- 3. Flexibility and the Changing Sexual Division of Labour -- 4. Localities and Gender Restructuring -- 5. Sex Segregation in Local Labour Markets -- 6. Labour Markets and Industrial Structures in Women's Working Lives -- 7. Gender Politics and Social Theory -- 8. 'Backlash' to feminism -- 9. Is Citizenship Gendered? -- 10. Woman and Nation -- 11. Gender and European Union Integration: Towards a Political Economy of Gender -- Appendix. Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991.
Summary
This important book 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.
