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The Global Construction of Gender: Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century
Elisabeth Prügl
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Paperback. Explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ; JHBL; JPS; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries. Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses, The Global Construction of Gender focuses specifically on people who work at home for pay. Prugl explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of this century. As Prugl relates, home-based workers, both urban ... Read more
Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries. Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses, The Global Construction of Gender focuses specifically on people who work at home for pay. Prugl explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of this century. As Prugl relates, home-based workers, both urban ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231115612
SKU
V9780231115612
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About Elisabeth Prügl
Elisabeth Prugl is associate professor of international relations at Florida International University.
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