Gendering The Recession

Author : Diane Negra,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376538

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Gendering the Recession by Diane Negra,Yvonne Tasker Pdf

This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, Anikó Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Sinéad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma

Author : Helen Davies,Claire O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
ISBN : 1786730928

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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture by Helen Davies,Claire O'Callaghan Pdf

Author : Mr. John C Bluedorn,Francesca G Caselli,Mr. Niels-Jakob H Hansen,Mr. Ippei Shibata,Ms. Marina Mendes Tavares
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513575926

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Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession: Evidence on “She-cessions” by Mr. John C Bluedorn,Francesca G Caselli,Mr. Niels-Jakob H Hansen,Mr. Ippei Shibata,Ms. Marina Mendes Tavares Pdf

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a “she-cession.” This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity across countries, with over half to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s effects are typically short-lived, lasting only a quarter or two on average. We also show that she-cessions are strongly related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors.

Author : Helen Davies,Claire O’Callaghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786720924

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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture by Helen Davies,Claire O’Callaghan Pdf

From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and illuminate the problematic ways in which economic policy can shape how gender is presented in popular culture. Written from the perspective that the popular is indeed political, this book considers film, literature and television's ideological attitudes towards race, sex and disability. It also takes into account how mass culture has responded to austerity in the past and the present, whilst examining the impact that feminism will have in the future.

Author : Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135073978

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Women and Austerity by Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery Pdf

Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current austerity measures risk losing past progress towards gender equality by undermining important employment and social welfare protections and putting gender equality policy onto the back burner. This volume constitutes the first attempt to identify how the economic crisis and the subsequent austerity policies are affecting women in Europe and the US, tracing the consequences for gender equality in employment and welfare systems in nine case studies from countries facing the most severe adjustment problems. The contributions adopt a common framework to analyse women in recession, which takes into account changes in women’s position and current austerity conditions. The findings demonstrate that in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, employment gaps between women and men declined — but due only to a deterioration in men’s employment position rather than any improvements for women. Tables are set to be turned by the austerity policies which are already having a more negative impact on demand for female labour and on access to services which support working mothers. Women are nevertheless reinforcing their commitment to paid work, even at this time of increasing demands on their unpaid domestic labour. Future prospects are bleak. Current policy is reinforcing the same failed mechanisms that caused the crisis in the first place and is stalling or even reversing the long term growth in social investment in support for care. This book makes the case for gender equality to be placed at the centre of any progressive plan for a route out of the crisis.

Author : Anna Triandafyllidou,Irina Isaakyan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137467119

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High Skill Migration and Recession by Anna Triandafyllidou,Irina Isaakyan Pdf

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.

Author : Rania Antonopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136754920

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Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis by Rania Antonopoulos Pdf

With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets can potentially influence the ways in which men and women are affected in times of economic crisis. Looking at the economy through a gender lens, the contributors investigate the antecedents and consequences of the ongoing crisis as well as the recovery policies adopted in selected countries. There are case studies devoted to Latin America, transition economies, China, India, South Africa, Turkey, and the USA. Topics examined include unemployment, the job-creation potential of fiscal expansion, the behavioral response of individuals whose households have experienced loss of income, social protection initiatives, food security and the environment, shedding of jobs in export-led sectors, and lessons learned thus far. From these timely contributions, students, scholars, and policymakers are certain to better understand the theoretical and empirical linkages between gender equality and macroeconomic policy in times of crisis.

Author : Rachel Connelly,Ebru Kongar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137568373

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Gender and Time Use in a Global Context by Rachel Connelly,Ebru Kongar Pdf

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers.

Author : Ruth Pearson,Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Practical Action Pub
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 185339713X

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Gender and the Economic Crisis by Ruth Pearson,Caroline Sweetman Pdf

This book maps the emerging impact of the economic crisis on people in different contexts, and suggest policy and practice changes. Authors include researchers as well as policymakers and development practitioners, who analyse the initial impacts of the economic crisis in South and East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Author : Jill Rubery,Roger J. Tarling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248670270

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Women in the Recession by Jill Rubery,Roger J. Tarling Pdf

Author : Sylvia Walby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509503209

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Crisis by Sylvia Walby Pdf

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations – a focus on ‘austerity’ and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on ‘financial crisis’ and democratic regulation of finance – are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, and contested gender relations lie at the heart of these debates. The future consequences of the crisis depend upon whether there is a deepening of democratic institutions, including in the European Union. Sylvia Walby offers an alternative framework within which to theorize crisis, drawing on complexity science and situating this within the wider field of study of risk, disaster and catastrophe. In doing so, she offers a critique and revision of the social science needed to understand the crisis.

Author : Aida A. Hozic,Jacqui True
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190204242

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Scandalous Economics by Aida A. Hozic,Jacqui True Pdf

While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this.

Author : Jill Rubery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136838040

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Women and Recession (Routledge Revivals) by Jill Rubery Pdf

Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment. The authors argue that the most important explanation of differences in women's experience between the countries is the form of labour market regulation and organisation. They point out that current changes in these forms of regulation, and not displacement of female labour, pose the main threat to any gains that women have made in the labour market in the post- World War II period.

Author : Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447325130

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Gender, ageing and extended working life by Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra Pdf

Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.

Author : Emily J. H. Contois
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469660752

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Diners, Dudes, and Diets by Emily J. H. Contois Pdf

The phrase "dude food" likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped . . . anything. But there is much more to the phenomenon of dude food than what's on the plate. Emily J. H. Contois's provocative book begins with the dude himself—a man who retains a degree of masculine privilege but doesn't meet traditional standards of economic and social success or manly self-control. In the Great Recession's aftermath, dude masculinity collided with food producers and marketers desperate to find new customers. The result was a wave of new diet sodas and yogurts marketed with dude-friendly stereotypes, a transformation of food media, and weight loss programs just for guys. In a work brimming with fresh insights about contemporary American food media and culture, Contois shows how the gendered world of food production and consumption has influenced the way we eat and how food itself is central to the contest over our identities.