1st Edition

Feminising the Masculine? Women in Non-traditional Employment

By Margaret Whittock Copyright 2000

    This title was first published in 2000:  This work aims to provide a comparative and temporal assessment of the position of women in non-traditional employment in Europe, Britain and Northern Ireland. Its second aim is to provide a new perspective on the division of labour in modern Western societies and to critically examine the issues, debates and perspectives which have traditionally dominated portrayals of women and paid employment. The book assesses the potential which women themselves have for transforming existing gender relations, particularly within the structural constraints of the education, training and employment systems. In so doing, it is intended to highlight flaws inherent in much contemporary feminist theorizing, and aims to provide a more satisfactory theoretical framework within which to elaborate and develop its arguments. While related texts have tended to concentrate on stereotypical notions of women and paid employment, this book aims to fill a gap in the literature by scrutinizing the lived experiences of women in non-traditional manual occupations, and relating these to a possible transformation of the existing gender order in Western societies

    List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction to the Issues, 2. Developing Feminist Theory, 3. The Education System: Girls' Subject and Career Choices, 4. Non-Traditional Training for Women, 5. A Review of Women's Paid Employment in Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 6. Breaking Routines: The Lived Experience of Women in Non-Traditional Employment, 7. Backwards into the Future?, Appendix A, Bibliography

    Biography

    Whittock, Margaret