Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
About the Book Series
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This series advances our understanding of the diversity and complexity of women's experience around the world, working across different geographies to explore the processes which underlie the construction of gender and the life-worlds of women.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Nicky Gregson, Michelle Lowe
September 12, 1994
Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new...
Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivian Kinnaird, Janet Momsen
January 22, 1993
Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed by the voices of female geographers from the ...
Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
1st Edition
By Sarah A. Radcliffe, Dr Sallie Westwood, Sallie Westwood
January 22, 1993
Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of `the nation'....
Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Cindi Katz, Janice Monk
January 19, 1993
Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to ...