Title Women of the European Union : the politics of work and daily life / edited by Maria Dolors Garci⁺ѓa-Ramon and Janice Monk.

Descript 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) : illustrations polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 Series Routledge international studies of women and place Routledge international studies of women and place. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Placing women of the European Union / Janice Monk and Maria Dolors Garci⁺ѓa-Ramon -- The Geography of gender and welfare in Europe / Eleonore Kofman and Rosemary Sales -- Women's work and everyday life in southern Europe in the context of European integration / Dina Vaiou -- The Diverse worlds of European patriarchy / Simon Duncan -- An Equal place to work? Anti-lesbian discrimination and sexual citizenship in the European Union / Gill Valentine -- Family policies and working mothers : a comparison of France and West Germany / Jeanne Fagnani -- At the centre on the periphery? Women in the Portuguese labor market / Isabel Margarida Andre⁺ѓ -- Contrasting developments in female labour force participation in East and West Germany since 1945 / Ju⁺rgen Schmude -- The Politics of cultural identity: Thai women in Germany / Eva Humbeck -- From informal felixibility to the new organization of time / Paola Vinay -- City and suburb : contexts for Dutch women's work and daily lives / Joos Droogleever Fortuijn -- Family, gender and urban life : stability and change in a Copenhagen neighbourhood / Kirsten Simonsen -- Regional welfare policies and women's agricultural labour in southern Spain / Maria Dolors Garci⁺ѓa-Ramon and Josefina Cruz -- Women's integration into the labour market and rural industrialization in Spain: gender relations and the global economy / Ana Sabate⁺ѓ-Martinez. Summary Women of the European Union challenges gender- blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the Union's policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Women -- European Union countries -- Social conditions. Women -- Employment -- European Union countries. Work and family -- European Union countries. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Women -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01176715 Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947 Work and family. (OCoLC)fst01180235 European Union countries. (OCoLC)fst01269470 Alt Author Garcia i Ramon, Maria Dolors, editor. Monk, Janice J., editor. ISBN 0203430360 (electronic bk.) 9780203430361 (electronic bk.) 9780415118798 0415118794 9786610320752 6610320756 9781134814213 (e-book) 1134814216 1280320753 9781280320750 9781134814206 (e-book) 1134814208 0415118808 (Paper) 9780415118804