Gendered Practices in Working Life

Book : Gendered Practices in Working Life

Author : * Liisa Rantalaiho * Tuula Heiskanen

Language : English

Library : Women

Publish Place : London

ISBN : 0-333-61853-X

Publish Date : January 1997

Publisher : Macmillan Press Ltd.

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 1501

INDEX

Contents
Acknowledgements Foreword by Joan Acker Notes on the Contributors
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Part One Introduction
1 Studying Gendered Practices
Liisa Rantalaiho, Tuula Heiskanen. Paivi Korvajarvi and Marja Vehvilainen
2 Contextualising Gender Liisa Rantalaiho
Part Two (De)constructing Gendered Hierarchies
Introduction
Merja Kinnunen, Paivi Korvajarvi and Riitta Martikainen
3 Making Gender with Classifications Merja Kinnunen
4 Gender Matters in Collective Bargaining Riitta Martikainen
5 Working Within and Between Hierarchies Paivi Korvajarvi
Part Three Everyday Life as Life-Totality
Introduction
Minna Salmi and Riikka. Kivimaki
6 Work and Parenthood Riikka Kivimaki
1 Autonomy and Time in Home-Based Work Minna Salmi
Part Four Defining Subjectivities in Working Life
Introduction
Marja Vehvilainen and Hannele Varsa


8 Anne's Story: Sexual Harassment as a Process Hannele Varsa
9 One's 'Own' Information Systems Marja Vehvilainen
Part Five Changing Gendered Practices
Introduction
Tuula Heiskanen and Leila Rasanen
10 Desegregation - How to Climb Invisible Walls Leila Rasanen
11 Comparable Worth as Social Problem-Solving Tuula Heiskanen
Part Six Concluding Discussion
12 Persistence and Change of Gendered Practices Tuula Heiskanen and Liisa Rantalaiho
References Index