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Global Perspectives on Gender and Work Readings and Interpretations

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ISBN-10: 074255614X

ISBN-13: 9780742556140

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jacqueline Goodman

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List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 7.13" wide x 10.09" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 2.772
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Origins of the Gendered Division of Labor
The Problem with Sex/Gender and Nature/Nurture
"Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender
Culture, Gender, and Math
Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Gender and Work in History
Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century-Europe
Housewifery: Household Work and Household Tools under Pre-Industrial Conditions
Black Women, Work, and the Family under Slavery
The Paradox of Motherhood: Night Work Restrictions in the United States
Gender, Wages, and Inequality
Still A Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap
The Social Organization of Toy Stores
The Milk of Human Kindness
Gender, Management, and the Professions
The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men
Women and Men as Litigators: Gender Differences on the Job
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions
Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder but Out on a Limb
Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families
Gender and Low-Waged Work
The Interlocking of Gender with Nationality, Race, Ethnicity and Class: The Narratives of Women in Hotel Work
"Outsider Within" the Station House: The Impact of Race and Gender on Black Women Police
When Feminism Had Class
Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profiles of Global Workers
Gender and the Global Division of Labor
New World Domestic Order
Trope Chasing: Making a Local Labor Market
Imagining Sex and Gender in the Workplace
Breadwinners No More: Masculinity in Fliix
Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child
Gendered Discrimination at Work
Unconsciousness, Raising
The Hidden Discourse of Masculinity in Gender Discrimination Law
"That Single Mother Element": How White Employers Typify Black Women
Marking Gender Boundaries: Porn, Piss, Power Tools
Men Behaving Badly
Family, Gender, and Work
The Administrative Mother
Black Mothering, Paid Work and Identity
Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home
More Alike than Different: Revisiting the Long-Term Prospects for Developing "European-Style" Work/Family Policies in the United States
A Sample of Policy Alternatives
The Stool Makers of Jobra Village
Women's Education: A Global Challenge
Affirmative Action at School and on the Job
Support for Working Families
References
Credits
Index
About the Editor
About the Book