Francesca Falk

Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage. Seeing society through the lens of migration alters the perspective from which our past and thus our present is told-and our future imagined.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Migration History
• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot / Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung / Spri
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-01625-8
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9783030016258
• ISBN-10: 3030016250
• Artikelnr.: 53713202

Autorenporträt

Francesca Falk is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Conceptual Clarifications.- 3. Changing Gendered Divisions of Work.- 4. Nurseries.- 5. Higher Education.- 6. Female Suffrage.- 7. Conclusion: An Awareness of Alternatives.

Rezensionen

"Francesca Falk published her book ... on the historical effects of migration in gendered innovation discourses. Her work is particularly valuable for expanding the social imaginaries of countries and citizens in need of adopting more inclusive and gender-fair concepts of national identity. ... The references to feminist scholarship throughout the book give further resources for the reader to reach out in a quest for a more encompassing understanding of historical facts." (Carolina Hutmacher, Gender Campus, gendercampus.ch, March 04, 2019)