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‘Bad Mum Guilt’: the representation of ‘work-life balance’ in UK women’s magazines

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Social Development / By

The social policy climate, labour market trends and gendered arrangements for paid and family work mean that ‘work-life balance’ remains a key social issue in the UK. Media representations of ‘work-life balance’ are a key source for the construction of gender and working motherhood. Despite evidence of gendered representations in media coverage of other social …

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‘As a slave woman and as a mother’: women and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Social Development / By

This article explores how enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro and Havana, the capital cities of the Americas’ last two slaveholding territories, played a crucial and specific part in helping speed and shape the gradual emancipation processes that unfolded simultaneously in each context during the 1870s and 1880s. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign …

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‘‘If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters:’’ Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming / By

This articles adduced masculinity as a variable that may have caused the crisis, speculated about the more prudent investment styles of women, and predicted the fall of macho and the end of men. It provides a narrative that explains the unfamiliar of the crisis, offers a correcting mechanism in the form of prudent woman, and …

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