Gender Orders Unbound: Globalisation, Restructuring and Reciprocity

by Lenz, Ilse

• ISBN13: 9783866490918
• ISBN10: 3866490917
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: ISBS/INTL SPECIALIZED BK SVC

Summary

During the last thirty years, the modernization of gender relations has been dynamic and comprehensive, shaped by the conflicting forces of globalization as well as women's movements around the world. As the patterns of segregation and discrimination of the classical industrial gender order erode, new complexities and contentions in gender relations emerge at various sites such as politics, work, and families. This book traces formal, as well as informal, gender contracts as they emerge in everyday life and also in new norms and regulations set by states and enterprises. Core issues are the chances and the barriers for equality and new forms of gender reciprocity and solidarity.

Table of Contents

Gender orders unbound : globalisation, restructuring, reciprocity - introduction	p. 9
Globalisation and restructuring of gender relations
The changing economic and political participation of women : hybridization, reversals and contradictions in the context of globalization	p. 25
Men, masculinity research and gender justice	p. 51
Migration, gender, empowerment	p. 69
Power people, working people, shadow people gender, migration, class and practices of (in)equality	p. 99
The gender-free concept in japan and transcultural civil society	p. 121
Transnationalisation, global governance and women's movement
On-line identities and organizational connections : networks of transnational feminist websites	p. 141
Challenges for intersectionality in the transnational organization of European equality movements : forming platforms and maintaining turf in today's European Union	p. 167
Between gender mainstreaming, managing diversity and anti-discrimination : what are the implications of the European equality patchwork for migrants?	p. 187
Soldiers' mothers fighting the military patriarchy : re-invention of responsible activist motherhood for human rights' struggle	p. 207
Restructuring work, family and the welfare state
Changing the subject : labor regulations and gender (in)equality	p. 229
Combining bottom-up and top-down approaches : the gender mainstreaming policy of the international labour organization	p. 251
The livelihood security system and social exclusion : the male breadwinner model revisited	p. 277
Modifying, reforming or transforming gender regimes : effects of the new women's movement on the German welfare state	p. 303
Gender boundaries in organizational development : body and culture in german police	p. 327
Changes in parenthood and childhood in europe and their impact on solidarity and reciprocity in the parent-child-relationships	p. 345
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