The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation SylviaWalby one of the worlds leading authorities on gender shows how undoubtedincreases in... » 

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation SylviaWalby one of the worlds leading authorities on gender shows how undoubtedincreases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanidby new forms of inequality. She charts changes in womens employment educationand political representation and the complex relations between gender classand ethnicity between local conditions and global pressures which togetherdetermine the place of women both in the labour market and in the wider socialpolitical and economic world of today.An eagerly awaited successor to Walbys classic Theorising PatriarchyTransforming Gender will be essential reading for anyone with an interest inhow questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economicconditions in which they occur. «