Women, Work, and Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Work, and Representation write by Lynn Mae Alexander. This book was released on 2003. Women, Work, and Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Women and Work in Premodern Europe
Women and Work in Premodern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Work in Premodern Europe write by Merridee L. Bailey. This book was released on 2018-05-20. Women and Work in Premodern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that expand received assumptions about what constituted 'work' for women. While attention to the diversity of women’s contributions to the economy has done much to make the breadth of women’s experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and valued as work. This interdisciplinary collection thus advances concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or labour for production. The chapters reconceptualise and explore work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that shaped women’s experiences of work across the European premodern period.
Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S.
Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. write by Laura E. Ruberto. This book was released on 2009-12. Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers cultural representations of four different types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic servants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century (including contemporary immigrants from non-western countries); cinematic representations of unwaged household work among Italian American women; and photographs of female immigrant cannery labor in California. These categories of labor suggest the diverse ways in which migrant women workers take part in the development of what Antonio Gramsci calls national popular culture, even as they are excluded from dominant cultural narratives. The project looks at Italian immigration to the U.S., contemporary immigration to Italy, and internal migration within Italy, the emphasis being on what representations of migrant women workers can tell us about cultural and political change. In addition to the idea of national popular culture, Gramsci's discussion of the social role of subalterns and organic intellectuals, the politics of folklore (or 'common sense') and everyday culture, and the necessity of alliance-formations among different social groups all inform the textual analyses. An introduction, which includes a reconsideration of Gramsci's theories in light of feminist theory, argues that the lives of subaltern classes (such as migrant women) are inherently connected to struggles for hegemony. A brief epilogue, on a lesser-known essay by photographer Tina Modotti, closes the discussion.
Women, Work, and Femininity
Women, Work, and Femininity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Work, and Femininity write by Jane Berry Marcellus. This book was released on 2004. Women, Work, and Femininity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women and Men at Work
Women and Men at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Men at Work write by Irene Padavic. This book was released on 2002-07-09. Women and Men at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Second Edition of this best selling book provides a comprehensive examination of the role that gender plays in work environments. This book differs from others by comparing women′s and men′s work status, addressing contemporary issues within a historical perspective, incorporating comparative material from other countries, recognizing differences in the experiences of women and men from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Relying on both qualitative and quantitative data, the authors seek to link social scientific ideas about workers′ lives, sex inequality, and gender to the real-world workplace. This new edition contains updated statistics, timely cartoons, and presents new scholarship in the field. It also provides a renewed focus on reasons for variability in inequality across workplaces. In sum, the second edition of Women and Men at Work presents a contemporary perspective to the field, with relevant comparative and historical insights that will draw readers in and connect them to the wider concern of making sense of our dramatically changing world.
