Women and Market Societies: Crisis and Opportunity
Women and Market Societies explores the problems and possibilities for women which arise from the transition to a market economy in East Asia, the dismantling of state socialism in Eastern Europe and the restructuring of the economies and welfare states of the older capitalist market societies in Western Europe. The paradoxical effects of modernising housework, the power and contestibility of global media representations of femininity, the experience of building a women's politics around...
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Women and Market Societies explores the problems and possibilities for women which arise from the transition to a market economy in East Asia, the dismantling of state socialism in Eastern Europe and the restructuring of the economies and welfare states of the older capitalist market societies in Western Europe. The paradoxical effects of modernising housework, the power and contestibility of global media representations of femininity, the experience of building a women's politics around consumption are all themes explored in this book which aims to contribute to an East-West dialogue among women.
Notes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction1Pt. 1Consumption and Women's Politics: Past Experiences1Consumer Power: Women's Contribution to Alternatives and Resistance to the Market in the United States 1880-1940112Basket Power and Market Forces: The Women's Co-operative Guild 1883-192030Pt. 2Modernizing Domestic Spaces: Liberating Women?3False Promises? Modernization of the Kitchen in France 1920-1960474Chinese Women and the Kitchen: Views from Four Generations58Pt. 3Cultural Representations and Resistances5Domestic Space in Italian Cinema: Ossessione, Ladri di biciclette and Ladri di saponette676Chinese Women and Chinese Film: Problems with History and Feminism847Fashioning (Western) Sexuality for Sale: The Case of Sex and Fashion Articles in Cosmopolitan Hong Kong968On the Construction of Desire and Anxiety: Contestations Over Female Nature and Identity in China's Modern Market Society114Pt. 4Crisis in Western Market Societies9Conflicts Between the Domestic and Market Economy in Britain: Past and Present13110Women, Time and Markets: The Role of Feminization and Contradiction in the New Forms of Exploitation14611from Dependence to Enterprise? Women and Western Welfare States160Pt. 5Problematic Transitions to Market Societies in the East12Confucian Ideology on Women and Married Women's Participation in the South Korean Labour Force17913Moving Towards the Market: Chinese Women in Employment and their Related Rights19314Economic Development and the Marriage Crisis in the Special Economic Zones of China20515Ironies of History: Citizenship Issues in the New Market Economies of East Central Europe217Index234
