Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues. From employment and households, to culture, sexuality and male violence, the book transcends any 'economy/culture' divide.
This wide coverage is placed within a conceptual view of structured 'gender cultures' which vary spatially and historically. Individual chapters are written around this common theme by an expert board of international contributors, drawn from a variety of intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds, allowing the reader to compare between chapters and read across them.

edited by Simon Duncan and Birgit Pfau-Effinger

Duncan, Simon, Pfau-Effinger, Birgit

London ; New York: Routledge

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge research in gender and society -- 5, London, New York, England, 2000

Research in Gender and Society Ser, New York, Florence, Feb. 2001

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

February 5, 2001

1, 2001

obscured text on front cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Routledge Research in Gender and Society

xv, 288 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: theorising comparative gender inequality 1 -- SIMON DUNCAN -- 1.1 Issues: the spatiality of gender I -- 1.2 Theorising gender spatiality at the national level -from gendered welfare regimes to local gender cultures 4 -- 1.3 Theorising gender spatiality at the local level -from spatial divisions of labour to local gender cultures 16 -- 1.4 Afterword 20 --PART I -- Gender divisions of labour - paid and unpaid work 25 -- 2 Paid work: participation, inclusion and liberation 27 -- GUNNEL FORSBERG, LENA GONAS AND DIANE PERRONS -- 2.1 Issues: mapping the inequality - an explanatory approach 27 -- 2.2 Patterns: gender inequality in paid employment 28 -- 2.3 Explanations: gender regimes, cultures and contracts 41 -- 2.4 Afterword 46 -- 3 Households and families: changing living arrangements and gender relations 49 -- MARIA JOSt GONZALEZ LOPEZ AND MONTSERRAT SOLSONA PAIR6 -- 3.1 Issues: changing gender relations and living arrangements 49 -- 3.2 Patterns: new and old households across European states 52 -- 3.3 Explanations: the role of women in inducingfamily change 62 -- 3.4 Afterword 79 -- 4 Reconciling divisions of labour 87 -- EILEEN P. DREW -- 4.1 Issues: patriarchy, paid work and the household 87 -- 4.2 Patterns: gendered divisions of labour in markets and households 88 -- 4.3 Explanations 101 -- 4.4 Afterword 108 --PART II -- Gender divisions of power - citizenship, rights and control 113 -- 5 Gender and European welfare states: context, structure and agency 115 -- HENRIK P. BANG, PER H. JENSEN AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER 5.1 Issues: the need to contextualise welfare state policies 115 -- 5.2 Patterns: variations in the gender policies of welfare states and problems of interpretation 116 -- 5.3 Explanations: welfare state policies in the context of gender arrangements 123 -- 5.4 Afterword:from essentialism to anti-essentialism in gender analysis 130 -- 6 Gender, migration and social inequalities: the dilemmas of European citizenship 143 -- MARINA CALLONI AND HELMA LUTZ -- 6.1 Issues: gender, contracts and citizenship 143 6.2 Patterns: migration in post-war Europe 149 -- 6.3 Explanations: feminised migration - the case offemale domestic workers 158 -- 6.4 Afterword: multiculturalism, globalisation and cosmopolitanism:towards a negotiated citizenship 161 -- 7 Male violence and control: constructing a comparative European perspective 171 -- CAROL HAGEMANN-WHITE -- 7.1 Issues 171 -- 7.2 Patterns 181 -- 7.3 Explanations 191 -- 7.4 Afterword: heterosexuality, violence and culture 202 --PART III -- Gendered understandings - cultures and values 209 -- 8 Challenging and negotiating the myths: gender divisions in the situation comedy 211 -- LIZA TSALIKI -- 8.1 Issues: differentiated gender cultures and the sitcom 211 -- 8.2 Patterns: the sitcom and gender representations 215 -- 8.3 Explanations: gender cultures and sitcom representation 223 -- 8.4 Afterword 229 -- 9 Living through the myths: gender, values, attitudes and practices 233 -- ROSEMARIE SACKMANN -- 9.1 Issues: the relation between values andpractices 233 -- 9.2 Patterns: gender values and practices in the European Union 237 -- 9.3 Explanations: connecting values and practices 251 -- 9.4 Afterword: gender difference and equality 254 -- 10 Conclusion: gender cultures, gender arrangements and social change in the European context 262 -- BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER 10.1 Introduction 262 -- 10.2 Main changes in Western European gender structures 263 -- 10,3 The integration of 'culture' into cross-national analysis of change 264 -- 10.4 'Gender equality' as a relational concept 271 -- 10.5 Afterword 273 -- Index 277

This study provides an analysis of comparative gender differences in the EU. It addresses a range of issues from employment and households to culture, sexuality, male violence, the state, migration and women's movements.

2023-06-28