Women of Their Time: Generation, Gender Issues and Feminism - Couverture rigide

Pilcher, Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840141972 ISBN 13 : 9781840141979

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Synopsis

This book argues for the importance of age as a source of diversity and difference amongst women. It compares three generations of women's accounts of a range of gender issues, including the domestic division of labour, equality, abortion and sexuality. It also compares their understandings of and orientations toward the feminist movement. Drawing on Karl Mannheim's argument that an individual's location in historical time shapes their social outlooks or world views, it is shown that women of different ages do not share the same gendered life courses due to differing cohort memberships. Consequently, women of different ages interpret, define and give meaning to gender issues and to feminism in varied and contrasting ways. A key concern of the book is to show that findings from qualitative studies are an important supplement to surveys of cohort differences in women's gender attitudes, in that they are more revealing of the complex ways cohort influences the construction of gender issues, including the very language used to do so.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jane Pilcher

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840141972
• ISBN 13: 9781840141979
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible