Gender Transformations

by Sylvia Walby

Book Overview

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanid by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment, education and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, between local conditions and global pressures which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415120810
• ISBN13: 9780415120814
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"