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Practicing Gender in the Labour Market: Experiencing Discrimination in Macedonia

Practicing Gender in the Labour Market: Experiencing Discrimination in Macedonia DER DONAURAUM Jahrgang 52 ­ Heft 3-4/2012 1. Gender, Culture and Work The pervasiveness of gender has contributed to creating a general perception that it has always been there. Most people find it hard to believe that gender is constantly created and re-created through human interaction, through social life, and that it is the texture and order of that social life.1 Gender as a socially constructed definition of women and men can be understood as the social design of a biological sex, determined by the conception of tasks, functions and roles attributed to women and men in society and in public and private life. It is a culture-specific definition of femininity and masculinity and therefore varies in time and space.2 Yet, as West and Zimmerman point out, gender, like culture, is a human production that depends on everyone constantly doing gender.3 With the rise of consolidated feminist writing on gender and sexuality, feminists have concentrated on the pernicious allure of patriarchal capitalism in explaining how gendered subjects have been entrapped in cycles of desire, compulsion and oppression.4 This body of feminist research examines how capitalism generates distinct relations of production and labour. Dealing with the feminization of labour, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Der Donauraum de Gruyter

Practicing Gender in the Labour Market: Experiencing Discrimination in Macedonia

Jovanovska, Bojana
Der Donauraum , Volume 53 – May 1, 2016
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10.7767/dnrm-2016-3-418
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DER DONAURAUM Jahrgang 52 ­ Heft 3-4/2012 1. Gender, Culture and Work The pervasiveness of gender has contributed to creating a general perception that it has always been there. Most people find it hard to believe that gender is constantly created and re-created through human interaction, through social life, and that it is the texture and order of that social life.1 Gender as a socially constructed definition of women and men can be understood as the social design of a biological sex, determined by the conception of tasks, functions and roles attributed to women and men in society and in public and private life. It is a culture-specific definition of femininity and masculinity and therefore varies in time and space.2 Yet, as West and Zimmerman point out, gender, like culture, is a human production that depends on everyone constantly doing gender.3 With the rise of consolidated feminist writing on gender and sexuality, feminists have concentrated on the pernicious allure of patriarchal capitalism in explaining how gendered subjects have been entrapped in cycles of desire, compulsion and oppression.4 This body of feminist research examines how capitalism generates distinct relations of production and labour. Dealing with the feminization of labour,

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