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Women's Work in Britain and France
Gregory, Abigail; Windebank, Jan
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Description for Women's Work in Britain and France
Hardback. This text looks at what constitutes "progress" in gender relations. Focusing on the UK and France. It contradicts the idea that encouraging women's increased insertion into employment is the best strategy for achieving progress in gender relations, with a new focus on changing men's work patterns. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 487.
Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.
Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333683064
SKU
V9780333683064
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99-15
About Gregory, Abigail; Windebank, Jan
ABIGAIL GREGORY is Lecturer in French at the University of Salford. Her research has concentrated on Anglo-French comparisons of women's employment both at national level and in retailing. She has published book chapters and articles on these themes and is currently co-editing Women in Contemporary France (with Ursula Tidd). JAN WINDEBANK is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the ... Read more
Reviews for Women's Work in Britain and France
'This is a brilliant example of how research can move on. Whilst covering the same ground as some of my own earlier work, it not only updates, but broadens the terrain and addresses new and highly topical policy issues. There is appropriate but gentle chastisement for earlier authors (including me) for omitting the consideration of unpaid work. This volume offers ... Read more