Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Faculty of Arts, Bristol University: Workshop 2: ‘The Value of Women’s Work: Between the Subjective and the Economic’

Time: 24.-25.10.2014
Venue: Firenze, European University Institute
Abstracts due: 15.07.2014

Women and men attach all kinds of values to the range of activities which they refer to as work. Such subjective evaluations of work are shaped by and exist in tension with cultural representations of work, and the value of work as defined in economic terms and academic and public debate. This workshop focuses on the tensions between individual and public valuations of work, and explores the ways in which the gendered construction of work sheds light on these tensions.

We particularly welcome papers which reach beyond the usual distinctions between economic, social and cultural history. Read more and source …