L. McKie - Böcker

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of gendered care, dimensions of gendered time and space, and, straddling work and home, gendered work, income and power.

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of gendered care, dimensions of gendered time and space, and, straddling work and home, gendered work, income and power.

There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body. The essays in this volume consider a range of bodies as active in the social and economic processes of policy making, institutions and employment. They consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise, and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.