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Title Gender regimes, citizen participation and rural restructuring / edited by Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Bettina B. Bock
Published Oxford, UK ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier JAI, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages)
Series Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 13
Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 13.
Contents Front cover; Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Rural Gender Regimes: The Development of Rural Gender Research and Design of a Comparative Approach; Introduction; Rural Gender Studies; Achievements and Worries; Comparative Research; Gender Regimes and Citizenship; The Rural Gender Regime; Different Rural Contexts; This Book; Social Citizenship; Economic Citizenship; Civil Citizenship; Political Citizenship; References
Part II: Social Citizenship and Gendered Constructions of IdentitiesChapter 2. Agrarian Femininity in a State of Flux: Multiple Roles of Finnish Farm Women; Introduction; Context and Data; Past Agrarian Femininities; Farm Women and the Welfare State; Empirical Material: Semi-Structured Interviews; Farm Women: New Roles Under Construction; The ''Good Emaumlntauml''; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 3. Care Work in Hungarian Agrarian Entrepreneur Families During the Post-Socialist Transition; Introduction; The Post-Socialist Transformation of the Gender Regime
The Specific Features of Rural Care RegimesGender Processes in Agrarian Entrepreneur Families; The Study Among Farm Families; Gender Strategies in the Organization of the Reproduction of Everyday Life; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Rural Identities in Transition: Male Unemployment and Everyday Practice in Northern Sweden; Introduction; The Organising of Gender Relations; Aim of the Study; Local Gender Contracts; Local Coping Strategies; Method; Setting up a Local Socio-Cultural Context; Pajala Municipality; Jokkmokk Municipality; Arjeplog Municipality
Identified Coping Strategies in Relation to the Labour Market and Local Gender ContractsAdaptation: Following Traditions and Adjusting to a Changing Labour Market; Challenge: Crossing the Gendered Borders of the Labour Market and Being ''Knapsu''; Retreat: Finding an Alternative Role in Civil Society; The Gender Regime and its Local Implications; Conclusion: Negotiated Masculinities and Gendered Coping Strategies; Notes; References; Part III: Economic Citizenship: Keeping Farming Alive; Chapter 5. Women Working off the Farm: A Case of Economic Citizenship?; Introduction; Materials and Method
Irish Farming ContextTheoretical Discussion; Official Discourses; The Farm Home Advisory Service; Living Life Within the Family; Gendering Identities; Contemporary Discourses: The Report of the Advisory Committee on the Role of Women in Agriculture; Women Farmers; The Family Farm; Gender Relations; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Tracking Empowerment and Participation of Young Women Farmers in Greece; Introduction; Theoretical Background; Research area and Methodology; Results; The Dynamics of Empowerment; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References
Summary This volume looks at the construction of gendered citizenship in different rural contexts. These contexts represent different welfare state and gender regimes, and different rural/agricultural conditions as characterized in different countryside types. This is a study of gender, citizenship and gender regimes, in a rural context with an international list of contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Rural women -- Social conditions.
Sociology, Rural.
Sex role in the work environment.
Women in agriculture.
Local government -- Citizen participation
rural sociology.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Social Science -- Sociology -- Rural.
Social Science -- Gender Studies.
Local government -- Citizen participation
Rural women -- Social conditions
Sex role in the work environment
Sociology, Rural
Women in agriculture
Form Electronic book
Author Asztalos Morell, Ildikó.
Bock, Bettina B. (Bettina Barbara), 1960-
ISBN 9781849504898
184950489X
0080556485
9780080556482