Gender innovation and migration in Switzerland. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesca Falk.
• Authors: Falk, Francesca
• Contents: Chapter 1 IntroductionSwitzerland as a straggler in relation to gender equalityAn exploratory interview'As if I had made a journey back in time'Cooking and sewing courses for girls, geometry for boysUnequal opportunities at schoolBring to the fore not only personal, but also structural conditionsChapter 2 Conceptual clarificationsGender innovationThe intersection of discrimination and privileges and new reconfigurationsA 'migrantisation' of the pastThe relationship between spatial and social changeMigration and mobilityA unified analysis of migrationChapter 3 Changing gendered divisions of workNurses from KeralaA sedentary bias in the history of emigrationColonial constellationsChapter 4 NurseriesThe first nurseriesThe so-called boom yearsThere is never a single storyMigration and the development of nurseriesThe normalising effect of an infrastructureThe current situationMale staff members with a so-called 'migrant background'Chapter 5 Higher educationSwitzerland as a pioneer − and what lies behind itThe oft-omitted impact of these 'foreign' studentsFeminist forerunners are not unequivocal heroines of historyThe first female full professor in Switzerland – born in the Russian empireThe first extraordinara in Romandie – born in the Russian empireThe first extraordinara in German-speaking Switzerland – again born in...Chapter 6 Female suffrageFemale suffrage in Switzerland and its relation to migrationThe first formal association promoting political and legal equality for womenMigrating political strategiesThe last stragglersAn indirect experience of migrationNot downplaying the effects of racismWomen's right to vote in cultural memoryUnseen democratic deficits in the supposed heartland of democracy'A new Swiss export article: instruction in democracy'1929: Fighting women in Nigeria and SwitzerlandChapter 7 Conclusion: An awareness of alternativesEqual rights presented as being endangered by migrationMigration and the creation of new ideas and practicesChanging the perspective under which our past is told and our future imagined.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 325.494; Women -- Switzerland -- Social conditions; Switzerland -- Emigration and immigration; Switzerland -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 1945-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030016265
• Related ISBNs: 9783030016258
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