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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gender Relations in Context -- What is This Book About? -- The Sex/Gender Category as a Cultural Flashpoint: Mobilizing Gender in the New Modernizing Project -- Knowing Possibilities: Social Change and Theories of Gender -- Understanding Social and Cultural Change: The Collective Political Subject and Pluralized Identities -- Structure of the Book -- 1 Approaching Gender: Feminism, Men's Studies and the Cultural Turn -- Introduction -- The Attraction of Sex Role Theory: Searching for Difference -- Second-wave Feminism and Theories of Patriarchy -- Contemporary 'New Feminisms' -- Masculinity Studies: Men as a Gendered and Political Category -- Cultural Turn: Gender Relations in Reflexive Modernity -- Conclusion -- 2 Fragmenting Family Life: Beyond Maternal Femininities and Paternal Masculinities -- Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries of the Family -- The Family as an Institution: Political Economy and Social Change -- Understanding Family Life in Late Modernity: Reconstituting Familial Relationships -- Contemporary Mothering: Feminine Subjectivities, the Ethic of Caring, Heterosexuality and the Self -- Masculinity Crisis Discourses: 'Deadbeat' Dads/'Bad Fathers' -- Conclusion -- 3 In and Out of Labour: Beyond the Cult of Domesticity and Breadwinners -- Introduction -- Making Sense of Labouring in Modernity: Industrial Breadwinners and Homemakers -- Mapping Men's and Women's Employment Patterns -- Changing Work? Changing Gender? -- Beyond Men and Women of the Corporation -- A New aesthetics of Doing Work and the Cultural Revaluing of the feminine -- Conclusion -- 4 Interplaying Gender and Age in Late Modernity -- Introduction -- Schooling, Gendering and Age -- 'Don't You Know You're Not Supposed to ask a Woman Her Age?': Exploring Femininity and Older Age.

COVER -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: IMAGINING THE GLOBAL -- 1 Introduction: Whither 'the Global'? -- 2 Imagining Globalization: Power-Geometries of Time-Space -- PART II: RISK, SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE -- 3 Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation -- 4 Global Environmental-Change Discourse: The Southern Critique -- 5 Governance and the Postnational Policy Process -- PART III: SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES -- 6 New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism, and the Politics of Synergetic Differences: Discursive Construction of Trade Relations between the USA, Japan and the East Asian NICs -- 7 Reviewing the Western Spectacle: Reflexive Globalization through the Black Diaspora -- 8 Globalization, the Pope and the Gypsies -- PART IV: MIGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION -- 9 Analysing the Political Economy of Migration: the Airport as an 'Effective' Institution of Control -- 10 Crossing Borders: Mobility of Goods, Capital andPeople in the Central European Region -- 11 Migration and Globalization in Intellectual Life: a Case Study of the Post-1956 Exodus from Hungary -- INDEX.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture -- PART I: MANAGING DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE NATION -- 2 Jews, Arabs and the Theorisation of Racism in Britain and France -- 3 Bringing the 'Local' Back in: the Production of Welsh Identities -- PART II: RE-PRESENTING WHITENESS -- 4 'Pale Warriors': Skinhead Culture and the Embodiment of White Masculinities -- 5 Populist Configurations of Race and Gender: the Case of Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and Divine Brown -- 6 Whiter Shades of Pale: Media-Hybridities of Rodney King -- PART III: COMPLEX SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS -- 7 Gender, Ethnicity and Politics: the Protestants of Northern Ireland -- 8 The African-Indian Antithesis? The 1949 Durban 'Riots' in South Africa -- PART IV MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- 9 Migration and Dislocation: Echoes of Loss within Jewish Women's Narratives -- 10 Globalisation, Western Culture and Riverdance -- Index.