Quelle: European Journal of Women's Studies, 15 (2008) 4, S 424-429
Inhalt: Book review: 1. Anne Phillips: Multiculturalism without culture. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press 2007, 202 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12944-0. 2. Judith Squires: The new politics of gender equality. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 206 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-00769-7.
Pregnant Bodies: Norwegian female employees in global working life
Autor/in:
Børve, Hege Eggen
Quelle: European Journal of Women's Studies, 14 (2007) 4, S 311-326
Inhalt: "This article examines the impact that the interplay between workplace, the welfare state and global working life has on female workers when they become pregnant. By focusing on two highly educated Norwegian female workers, it explores how this change process takes place in two companies operating in the global market located in different countries: Norway and the US. Pregnancy contributes to transforming the neutralized bodiless female worker into an embodied worker with gender. The female workers' experiences and negotiations represent forms of global action on local stages. This is illustrated by four processes: `married to work', `pregnant and still married to work', `negotiating separation from work' and `excluding mothering'. The findings indicate the significance of taking welfare state and workplace policy approaches into consideration in studies of global effects on employees." [author's abstract]
A job with no boundaries: home eldercare work in Italy
Autor/in:
Degiuli, Francesca
Quelle: European Journal of Women's Studies, 14 (2007) 3, S 193-207
Inhalt: In recent years a number of important studies have explored the new international division of reproductive labor, but those works have concentrated, for the most part, on one end of the life cycle: nannies and childcare. This article focuses on the other end of it, home eldercare work. Jobs falling under this label encompass a variety of work situations but the title suggests a job that is more homogeneous than the occupation actually is. This article explores, through the narratives of the workers and the exploration of this 24-hour job, what it means to work as a home eldercare assistant.
Schlagwörter:domestic work; emotional labor; globalization; home eldercare work; immigration; women
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gerontologie, Alterssoziologie, Migration