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Title:

Gender and family among transnational professionals / edited by Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Working mothers--Employment.
Married women--Employment.
Work and family.
Expatriation--Psychological aspects.
Employees--Relocation.

Other Authors:

Coles, Anne.
Fechter, Anne-Meike.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter -- The Shell Ladies' project : making and remaking home / Leonie Gordon -- Shopping for a hypernational home : how expatriate women in Kathmandu labour to assuage fear / Heather Hindman -- Travelling together? work, intimacy, and home amongst British expatriate couples in Dubai / Katie Walsh -- The German school in London, UK : fostering the next generation of national cosmopolitans? / Fiona Moore -- Moving experiences : responses to relocation among British military wives / Sue Jervis -- Making multiple migrations : the life of British diplomatic families overseas / Anne Coles -- Becoming a feminist in Aidland / Rosalind Eyben -- At work and at play in the 'fishbowl' : gender relations and social reproduction among development expatriates in Madagascar / Ritu Verma -- From 'incorporated wives' to 'expat girls' : a new generation of expatriate women? / Anne-Meike Fechter -- 'Coming to China changed my life' : gender roles and relations among single British migrants / Katie D. Willis and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

Series:

Routledge international studies of women and place ; 8

ISBN:

041539600X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415396004 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)86090308

LCCN:

2007009503

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)