Front Cover -- Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction: theorising comparative gender inequality: Simon Duncan -- 1.1 Issues: the spatiality of gender -- 1.2 Theorising gender spatiality at the national level - from gendered welfare regimes to local gender cultures -- 1.3 Theorising gender spatiality at the local level- from spatial divisions of labour to local gender cultures -- 1.4 Afterword -- Part I: Gender divisions of Iabour s- paid and unpaid work -- 2. Paid work: participation, inclusion and liberation: Gunnel Forsberg, Lena Ganäs and Diane Perrons -- 2.1 Issues: mappingthe inequality - an explanatory approach -- 2.2 Patterns: gender inequality in paid employment -- 2.3 Explanations:gender regimes) cultures and contracts -- 2.4 Afterword -- 3. Households and families: Changing living arrangements and gender relations: Mariafose Gonzalez Lopez and Montserrat Solsona Pairo -- 3.1 Issues: changinggender relations and living arrangements -- 3.2 Patterns: new and old households across European states -- 3.3 Explanations: the role of women in inducing family change -- 3.4 Afterword -- 4. Reconciling divisions of labour: Eileen P. Drew -- 4.1 Issues: patriarchy, paid workand the household -- 4.2 Patterns: gendered divisions of labour in markets and households -- 4.3 Explanations -- 4.4 Afterword -- Part II: Gender divisions of power - citizenship, rights and control -- 5. Gender and European welfare states: context, structure and agency: Henrik Bang, Per H. Jensen and Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- 5.1 Issues: the needto contextualise welfare state policies -- 5.2 Patterns: variations in the gender policies of welfare statesandproblems of interpretation.

5.3 Explanations: welfare state policies in the context of gender arrangements -- 5.4 Afterword: from essentialism to anti-essentialism in gender analysis -- 6. Gender, migration and social inequalities: the dilemmas of European citizenship: Marina Calloni and Helma Lutz -- 6.1 Issues: gender, contracts and citizenship -- 6.2 Patterns: migration in post-war Europe -- 6.3 Explanations: feminised migration - the case of female domestic workers -- 6.4 Aftenoord: multiculturalism, globalisation and cosmopolitanism: towards a negotiated citizenship -- 7. Male violence and control: constructing a comparative European perspective: Carol Hagemann-White -- 7.1 Issues -- 7.2 Patterns -- 7.3 Explanations -- 7.4 Afterword: heterosexuality, violence and culture -- Part III: Gendered understandings - cultures and values -- 8. Challenging and negotiating the myths: gender divisionsin the situation comedy: Liza Tsaliki -- 8.1 Issues: differentiated gender cultures and the sitcom -- 8.2 Patterns: the sitcom andgender representations -- 8.3 Explanations: gender cultures and sitcom representation -- 8.4 Afterword -- 9. Living through the myths: gender, values, attitudes andpractices: Rosemarie Sackmann -- 9.1 Issues: the relation between values and practices -- 9.2 Patterns: gender values and practices in the European Union -- 9.3 Explanations: connecting values and practices -- 9.4 Afterword: gender difference and equality -- 10. Conclusion: gender cultures, gender arrangements and social change in the European context: Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Main changes in Western European gender structures -- 10.3 The integration of 'culture' into cross-national analysis of change -- 10.4 'Gender equality' as a relational concept -- 10.5 Afterword -- Index.