Gender and family among transnational professionals
By: edited by Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter
Contributors: Coles, Anne; Fechter, Anne-Meike
Series: Routledge international studies of women and place -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780415396004
Subjects: Working mothers -- Employment; Married women -- Employment; Work and family; Expatriation -- Psychological aspects; Employees -- Relocation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter; title: The Shell Ladies' project : making and remaking home / Leonie Gordon; title: Shopping for a hypernational home : how expatriate women in Kathmandu labour to assuage fear / Heather Hindman; title: Travelling together? work, intimacy, and home amongst British expatriate couples in Dubai / Katie Walsh; title: The German school in London, UK : fostering the next generation of national cosmopolitans? / Fiona Moore; title: Moving experiences : responses to relocation among British military wives / Sue Jervis; title: Making multiple migrations : the life of British diplomatic families overseas / Anne Coles; title: Becoming a feminist in Aidland / Rosalind Eyben; title: At work and at play in the 'fishbowl' : gender relations and social reproduction among development expatriates in Madagascar / Ritu Verma; title: From 'incorporated wives' to 'expat girls' : a new generation of expatriate women? / Anne-Meike Fechter; title: 'Coming to China changed my life' : gender roles and relations among single British migrants / Katie D. Willis and Brenda S.A. Yeoh