Sexuality and Economy: Historicisation vs Deconstruction

Family Comes First or Open All Hours?: How Low Paid Women Working in Food Retailing Manage Webs of Obligation at Home and Work

“…Working class women have to contend with particular structural and cultural circumstances. Adkins (2002) argued that masculine and feminine ‘identities’ continue to be central to workplace politics, the labour process itself and the organisation of production. Warren et al (forthcoming) analysed how work-family related policy initiatives had relevance for low-waged coupled mothers in England.…”

Gender, “Symbolic Domination”, and Female Work: The case of teacher education

“…domestic workers and teachers) or the critique of identity in the sphere of liberal democratic citizenship (see Brown, 1997). In extending such concerns to analyses of women's work and the nation state, sociologists have largely confined their analysis to the exploration of the role of the economy in the sexual division of labour, highlighting the exclusion of women from the labour market (Walby, 1997), and, to a substantially lesser extent, illustrating the role of the state in reproducing notions of women workers as domestic labourers or as ''mothers made conscious'' in the workforce (Adkins, 2002b;Acker & Feurverger, 1997;Steedman, 1986Steedman, , 1992Steedman, , 2002.…”

Multiculturalism and the catachresis of otherness: Settling Gypsies, unsettling Gypsy belongings

“…In advocating the benefits of 'the method of historicisation' (Adkins, 2002a), Nancy Fraser accounts for 'a shift in the grammar of political claims-making' (1997: 2). She notes that the rise of identity politics has shifted attention from the 'economic harms' to the 'cultural' ones, a shift that foregrounded the issue of recognition; to put it differently, recognition is employed as a 'normative category' matching all political demands articulated today under the discourse of a 'politics of identity' (Honneth, 2001: 52).…”

“…Here, I am particularly concerned with the unmatched tendency to consider identity and identity formation as universal categories in the conceptualization of human experience (Rouse, 1995: 352), as something that individuals and groups 'fashion', 'construct' and 'have'; a related concern is also with the assumption that people will and can always claim authorship of an identity, that identity is reduced to a cultural property (Adkins, 2002a(Adkins, , 2002b. Relevant to this are the following statements articulated by Rouse: first, that the discourse on identity is inextricably related to an understanding of personhood 'as ideally involving a proprietorship in the self ' (1995: 374) -an idea linked to the attempts of the bourgeois elite to maintain 'the primacy of private property and idealized visions' of citizens' connectedness to the state (1995: 374).…”