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Women and market societies : crisis and opportunity / edited by Barbara Einhorn and Eileen Janes Yeo
Bib ID 1008838
Format BookBook
Description Aldershot, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US : E. Elgar, c1995 
xi, 244 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 1858983177 
Full contents
  • Introduction / Barbara Einhorn
  • Pt. 1. Consumption and Women's Politics: Past Experiences. 1. Consumer Power: Women's Contribution to Alternatives and Resistance to the Market in the United States 1880-1940 / Sheila Rowbotham. 2. Basket Power and Market Forces: The Women's Co-operative Guild 1883-1920 / Gillian Scott
  • Pt. 2. Modernizing Domestic Spaces: Liberating Women? 3. False Promises? Modernization of the Kitchen in France 1920-1960 / Claire Duchen. 4. Chinese Women and the Kitchen: Views from Four Generations / Xu Min
  • Pt. 3. Cultural Representations and Resistances. 5. Domestic Space in Italian Cinema: Ossessione, Ladri di biciclette and Ladri di saponette / Maggie Gunsberg. 6. Chinese Women and Chinese Film: Problems with History and Feminism / Stephanie Donald. 7. Fashioning (Western) Sexuality for Sale: The Case of Sex and Fashion Articles in Cosmopolitan Hong Kong / Lisa Leung. 8. On the Construction of Desire and Anxiety: Contestations Over Female Nature and Identity in China's Modern Market Society / Maria Jaschok
  • Pt. 4. Crisis in Western Market Societies. 9. Conflicts Between the Domestic and Market Economy in Britain: Past and Present / Eileen Janes Yeo. 10. Women, Time and Markets: The Role of Feminization and Contradiction in the New Forms of Exploitation / Jenny Shaw. 11. from Dependence to Enterprise? Women and Western Welfare States / Crescy Cannan
  • Pt. 5. Problematic Transitions to Market Societies in the East. 12. Confucian Ideology on Women and Married Women's Participation in the South Korean Labour Force / Kim Kyung-Ai. 13. Moving Towards the Market: Chinese Women in Employment and their Related Rights / Liu Bohong and Sun Rong. 14. Economic Development and the Marriage Crisis in the Special Economic Zones of China / Zhao Weijie. 15. Ironies of History: Citizenship Issues in the New Market Economies of East Central Europe / Barbara Einhorn.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Women - Economic conditions - Cross-cultural studies.  |  Women - Social conditions - Cross-cultural studies.
Other authors/contributors Einhorn, Barbara  |  Yeo, Eileen

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