Gender and Class in Modern Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID19919817
EditorsLaura Levine Frader, Sonya O Rose
Year1996
Pages376
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGender and Class in Modern Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501724183
OpenAlexW4242890572
Open LibraryOL33753243M
ISBN9781501724183
LanguageDE
Citations received75

Gender figured significantly in the industrial, social, and political transformations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Germany, and Russia. This book explores its importance during a period of radical change for the working classes, from 1800 through the 1930s. Collectively, the authors demonstrate how the study of gender can lead to a new understanding of working class history. The authors-leading historians, sociologists, and feminist scholars ask how gender meanings and relations shaped and were shaped by transformations in areas ranging from the Irish linen industry to German social policy, from the French labor movement to Britain's interracial settlements. With special attention to the importance of language and culture in social life, they show how political identities are constituted and social categories created, contested, and changed-and how gender plays a central role in this process. Contributors: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan; Helen Harden Chenut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Anna Clark, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Judy Coffin, University of Texas, Austin; Jane Gray, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Republic ofireland; Tessie P. Llu, Northwestern University; Judith F. Stone, Western Michigan University; Laura Tabili, University of Arizona; Eric D. Weitz, St. Olaf College; Elizabeth A. Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Class (philosophy) · Political science · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Case studies · Employment · Europe · Women · Working class