Claire Wallace

An Introduction to Sociology : Feminist Perspectives

1. Introduction: Feminism and the Sociological Imagination 2. Feminist Sociological Theory 3. Stratification and Inequality 4. Education 5. The Life Course 6. The Family and the Household 7. Health, Illness and Medicine 8. Sexuality 9. Work and Organisation 10. Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice 11. Politics 12. Media Culture 13. Feminist Knowledge

Opening and closing borders: Migration and mobility in East-Central Europe

This paper considers the effects of migration since 1989 for Poland, Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics - countries which have been crucially affected by the opening of borders to the European Union. There has not only been migration from these countries, but also into these countries; the former has declined and the latter has increased in the last ten years. The paper argues, however, that this migration most often takes the form of short-term circulatory movements. It considers a number of factors which account for this and explain why migration is not as high as had been expected (and feared) and why it might be better described as mobility. The paper goes on to consider the effects of migration on the host societies, especially in terms of xenophobia, using the World Values Survey data for 1980, 1990 and 1995 and the New Democracies Barometer for 1998. Finally, the paper considers the role of migration in these countries in relation to an enlarged EU.

The eastern frontier of Western Europe: Mobility in the buffer zone

The post-Communist countries of Poland, Hungary, [and] the Czech and Slovak Republics have become a buffer zone between East and West. In this article we analyse the way in which this occurs in terms of migration in and out of the region. Our analysis focuses upon the emerging role which this region plays in relation to other parts of Western and Eastern Europe and the way in which economic and political developments there have encouraged particular forms of migration. We attempt to build a picture of some of the different kinds of migration taking place in relation to the social and ethnic characteristics of migrants. The article concludes that these movements are better understood as part of the mobility and circulation of people rather than as one-way migration.

Gender, Power, and Sexuality

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction P.Abbott & C.Wallace - Womens Oppression in the World and in Ourselves: a Fresh Look at Feminism and Psychoanalysis C.New - Women and Citizenship: the Insane, the Insolvent and the Inanimate? Y.Summers - Money and Power in Marriage J.Pahl - Feminist Sociology and Educational Change: Studying the Reforms of School Governing Bodies R.Deem - Human-centred Systems...Women-centred Systems? Gender Divisions and Office Computer Systems Design E.Green, J.Owen, D.Pain & I.Stone - Young Women, Harassment and Heterosexuality: Violence, Power Relations and Mixed Secondary Schooling J.Halson - Gender Issues in Inter-Agency Relations: Police, Probation and Social Services A.Sampson, D.Smith, G.Pearson, H.Blagg & P.Stubbs - Policing domestic violence S.Edwards - Penetrating Womens Bodies: the Problem of Law and Medical Technology C.Smart - Index

Women farmers in south‐west England

Abstract There has been research on women running businesses and on women as farmers’ wives, but little is known about women farmers—women running their own businesses within the rural economy. This paper reports on long interviews with nine women farmers in the South West of England. All had become involved in farming during or as a result of marriage, but at the time of the interviews all were business‐women in their own right, running farms or substantial independent businesses within a farming enterprise. The paper looks at their lives in terms of the power inherent in their positions on the one hand and the necessary interaction of domestic and farming obligations on the other. We also point out the importance of women farmers in a rural economy and the gender‐specific difficulties which they face.