Gender, Work and Space

List of contents

1 SPATIAL STORIES AND GENDERED PRACTICES 2 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS 3 THE WORCESTER STUDY 4 THE FRICTION OF DISTANCE AND GENDERED GEOGRAPHIES OF EMPLOYMENT 5 HOUSEHOLD ARRANGEMENTS AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF EMPLOYMENT 6 EMPLOYER PRACTICES, LOCAL LABOR MARKETS, AND OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION 7 COMMUNITIES, WORK, AND GENDER RELATIONS 8 CROSSING BOUNDARIES

About the author

Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt

Summary

Examines how social boundaries are constructed between men and women in the work place and how these differences are grounded, constituted in and through, space, place and situated social networks.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt, Pratt Geraldine
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.1995
• EAN: 9780415099400
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09940-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Human Geography, Development Studies