Everyday Life: Women's Adaptive Strategies in Time and SpaceWomen want to feel sure the children are fine, to find enough time, to cope with all their tasks. These strivings unite all gainfully employed women with children. They are faced with similar conflict situations in daily life but solve them in different ways. Their lives take difference forms with employment, on the one hand, and home and family, on the other, as two poles around which they weave the network of everyday living. It is necessary to draw conclusions from this to move foward with the theoretical and practical women's questions. The discussion in this book is in terms of life-forms: the employee, mediating and career-oriented life-forms. Women's positions on the labour market is the starting point for the analysis. This is then carried forward with the help of interviews with individual women and leads to the definition of the life-form that are specific to the women. It is noted that women's actions usually feature an adaptive strategy, i.e. women try to make the best of a situation. Adaptation is differently expressed in each of the life-forms. The mediating life-form unites women's traditional responsibility for reproduction with a conscious striving for a meaningful working life. Does it correspond to a modern life-form - a model of the good life. |
Contents
PARTI INTRODUCTION | 11 |
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS | 37 |
A FeministGeographic Perspective of Space and Time | 64 |
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action-space actions activities adaptive strategies Anita attitude become Berit Ås bosses career life-form career-oriented life-form Chapter class women colleagues concept context daily lives day nursery demands division of labour doctors Doris earn employee life-form entails feel feminine feminist full-time function gainful employment gainfully employed gender goals Haavind Hägerstrand hierarchy Hirdman Højrup housewife's housework husband ideology important individual interests interviews Kristianstad Kristianstads län labour market labour power leisure life-form theory male domination Marxism means mediating life-form men's middle strata women occupations one's oppression organization parents part-time personality strategies perspective position possible praxis projects Rahbek Christensen regard relation relationship relatively responsibility role sector sexes simple commodity production situation social space spatial specific staff Statistics Sweden Stockholm structural subordination talk tasks teachers theory of life-forms time-diaries time-geographic Torsten Hägerstrand various woman women's strategies
References to this book
By Northern Lights: On the Making of Geography in Sweden Anne Buttimer,Tom Mels No preview available - 2006 |