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Title Gender and work : exploring intersectionality, resistance, and identity / edited by Miglena Sternadori and Carrie Prentice.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Edition 1st unabridged.
Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents I. Historical underpinnings of the gendered workplace. What's wrong with leaning in? -- Shifting markets, shifting meanings : repositioning the ERA in feminist dialogues -- Work, work, work : women's paid, unpaid, and literary labors in a historicized reading of Diana Garcia's labor poetry -- The unique environment for women's work in institutions for the feeble-minded, 1876-1916 : prestige, authority, and respect -- Whose "Y" is it? Defining meaningful work in the competition for women's souls, 1865-1907 -- II. Case studies and social scientific approaches. Policies and practices to level the playing field for women faculty : the case of North Dakota State University -- The unfinished work of feminism : an analysis of online user-generated comments responding to public opinion polls about gender equality -- When your spouse is your co-worker : managing the work-life boundaries in academic couples -- Explaining the gender wage gap : the role of discrimination and the mining industry -- Taking time "off" : gender and race as factors affecting young adults' attitudes toward workers requesting parental leave -- III. Gendered work in literature and popular culture. Women's work : motherhood and the modern woman in Barbara Kingsolver -- The intersection of L.T. Meade's professional and domestic Victorian celebrity -- The class-bending love affair with the factory girl : rejecting the Western capitalist fantasy in Clara Viebig's "The cigar factory girl" and "Margret's pilgrimage" -- The value in women's education and employment in post-Revolutionary America : Hannah Webster Foster's The coquette and The boarding school -- Weaving expectations and bonds in women's work : teaching queenship in Brave -- Women's production and reproduction in Downton Abbey : parallels across time and space.
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Subject Sex role in the work environment -- Congresses.
Sex role in the work environment.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Congresses.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Women -- Employment -- Congresses.
Women -- Employment.
Gender identity -- Congresses.
Gender identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congress.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender identity.
Added Author Sternadori, Miglena, editor.
Prentice, Carrie, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 1443889822 9781443889827 (OCoLC)948549809
ISBN 9781443891981 (electronic book)
1443891983 (electronic book)
1443889822
9781443889827