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What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
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Artikel-Nr:
9781789208023
Veröffentl:
2020
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2020
Seiten:
398
Autor:
Anna Bellavitis
Gewicht:
575 g
Format:
229x152x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Manuela Martini is Professor of Modern History at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. She has directed international research projects on labor history, family and gender history, and labor migration. A member of Gender & History's editorial collective, she has published extensively in multiple languages and has authored or edited sixteen books and special journal issues.
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
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