Gender, Economy, and Culture in the European Union

Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues from employment and households to culture, and sexuality and male violence, taking in the state, migration and women's movements along the way. This wide coverage is placed within an overall conceptual view of structuring "gender cultures", which vary spatially and historically. Individual chapters are written to a common structure by European experts, drawn from a variety of backgrounds, allowing readers to compare between chapters and to read across them.