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Global perspectives on gender and work: Readings and interpretations/ edited by Jacqueline Goodman.

Contributor(s): Goodman, JacquelineMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham: Rowman & littlefield Publishers, 2010Description: 606pISBN: 9780742556140Subject(s): Sexual division of labor -- History | Women -- Social conditions | Women employees -- HistoryDDC classification: 331.4

Contents:

Part I: Origins of the gendered division of labor -- 1.The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- 2. "Night to his day" : the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber -- 3. Culture, gender, and math / Luigi Guiso, Ferdinando Monte, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales -- 4. Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization / Eleanor Leacock -- 5. Capitalism, patriarchy, and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann -- Part II: Gender and work in history -- 6. Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly -- 7. Housewifery : household work and household tools under pre-industrial conditions / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- 8. Black women, work and the family under slavery / Jacqueline Jones -- 9. The paradox of motherhood : night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Part III: Gender, wages, and inequality -- 10. Still a man's labor market : the long-term earnings gap / Ashley English and Ariane Hegewisch -- 11. The social organization of toy stores / Christine L. Williams -- 12. The milk of human kindness / Nancy Folbre -- Part IV: Gender, management, and the professions -- 13. The impact of hierarchical structures on the work behavior of women and men / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- 14. Women and men as litigators : gender differences on the job / Jennifer Pierce -- 15. The glass escalator : hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions / Christine L. Williams -- 16. Black mobility in white corporations : up the corporate ladder but out on a limb / Sharon M. Collins -- 17. Gender and labor in Asian immigrant families / Yen Le Espiritu -- Part V: Gender and low-waged work -- 18. The interlocking of gender with nationality, race, ethnicity and class : the narratives of women in hotel work / Amel Adib and Yvonne Guerrier -- 19. "Outsider within" the station house : the impact of race and gender on black women police / Susan E. Martin -- 20. When feminism had class / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- 21. Myths of docile girls and matriarchs : local profiles of global workers / Carla Freeman -- Part VI: Gender and the global division of labor -- 22. New world domestic order / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- 23. Trope chasing : making a local labor market / Leslie Salzinger -- 24. Imagining sex and gender in the workplace / Pun Ngai -- 25. Breadwinners no more : masculinity in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd -- 26. Thailand : because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales -- Part VII: Gendered discrimination at work -- 27. Unconsciousness raising / Barbara Reskin -- 28. The hidden discourse of masculinity in gender discrimination law / Tyson Smith and Michael Kimmel -- 29. "That single mother element" : How white employers typify black women / Ivy Kennelly -- 30. Marking gender boundaries : porn, piss, power tools / Susan Eisenberg -- 31. Men behaving badly / Margaret Talbot -- Part VIII: Family, gender, and work -- 32.The administrative mother / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 33. Black mothering, paid work and identity / Tracey Reynolds -- 34. Families on the frontier : from Braceros in the fields to Braceras in the home / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- 35.More alike than different : revisiting the long-term prospects for developing "European-style" work/family policies in the United States / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers -- Part IX: A sample of policy alternatives -- 36. The stool makers of Jobra village / Muhammad Yunus -- 37. Women's education : a global challenge / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 38. Affirmative action at school and on the job / Shannon Harper and Barbara Reskin -- 39.Support for working families / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers.

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Part I: Origins of the gendered division of labor --
1.The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture / Anne Fausto-Sterling --
2. "Night to his day" : the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber --
3. Culture, gender, and math / Luigi Guiso, Ferdinando Monte, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales --
4. Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization / Eleanor Leacock --
5. Capitalism, patriarchy, and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann --

Part II: Gender and work in history --
6. Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly --
7. Housewifery : household work and household tools under pre-industrial conditions / Ruth Schwartz Cowan --
8. Black women, work and the family under slavery / Jacqueline Jones --
9. The paradox of motherhood : night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris --

Part III: Gender, wages, and inequality --
10. Still a man's labor market : the long-term earnings gap / Ashley English and Ariane Hegewisch --
11. The social organization of toy stores / Christine L. Williams --
12. The milk of human kindness / Nancy Folbre --

Part IV: Gender, management, and the professions --
13. The impact of hierarchical structures on the work behavior of women and men / Rosabeth Moss Kanter --
14. Women and men as litigators : gender differences on the job / Jennifer Pierce --
15. The glass escalator : hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions / Christine L. Williams --
16. Black mobility in white corporations : up the corporate ladder but out on a limb / Sharon M. Collins --
17. Gender and labor in Asian immigrant families / Yen Le Espiritu --

Part V: Gender and low-waged work --
18. The interlocking of gender with nationality, race, ethnicity and class : the narratives of women in hotel work / Amel Adib and Yvonne Guerrier --
19. "Outsider within" the station house : the impact of race and gender on black women police / Susan E. Martin --
20. When feminism had class / Dorothy Sue Cobble --
21. Myths of docile girls and matriarchs : local profiles of global workers / Carla Freeman --

Part VI: Gender and the global division of labor --
22. New world domestic order / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo --
23. Trope chasing : making a local labor market / Leslie Salzinger --
24. Imagining sex and gender in the workplace / Pun Ngai --
25. Breadwinners no more : masculinity in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd --
26. Thailand : because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales --

Part VII: Gendered discrimination at work --
27. Unconsciousness raising / Barbara Reskin --
28. The hidden discourse of masculinity in gender discrimination law / Tyson Smith and Michael Kimmel --
29. "That single mother element" : How white employers typify black women / Ivy Kennelly --
30. Marking gender boundaries : porn, piss, power tools / Susan Eisenberg --
31. Men behaving badly / Margaret Talbot --

Part VIII: Family, gender, and work --
32.The administrative mother / Arlie Russell Hochschild --
33. Black mothering, paid work and identity / Tracey Reynolds --
34. Families on the frontier : from Braceros in the fields to Braceras in the home / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo --
35.More alike than different : revisiting the long-term prospects for developing "European-style" work/family policies in the United States / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers --

Part IX: A sample of policy alternatives --
36. The stool makers of Jobra village / Muhammad Yunus --
37. Women's education : a global challenge / Martha C. Nussbaum --
38. Affirmative action at school and on the job / Shannon Harper and Barbara Reskin --
39.Support for working families / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers.

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