Rahn, Cornelia (2013) Gender Relations in Suburbia. 5th Nordic Geographers' Meeting, 11.-14. Juni 2013, Reykjavik, Island. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This research examines the question if residence in a suburban area affects gender relations through imposing constraints on women’s day-to-day life – despite the social impact of post-Fordism and post-Socialism. One can assume gender-specific differences since suburban residential areas have been labelled as “women-unfriendly” for decades. Ten study areas have been chosen within Berlin’s Suburbia with the objective to establish if any and what particular course of action is available to female residents to compensate the likely constraints. The interplay between gender, residence area and individual action in the realms of work, mobility and social capital has been investigated. The empirical analysis proves that the lack of employment sites available for women in the vicinity of the place of their residence comes into collision with women’s paramount role in reproductive labour and results in evident constraints imposed on the majority of female suburban residents. Different patterns of socialisation were found to play an essential role in the works as well as in the mobility practices, since people of the East- or the West-German origin seem still to be shaped by the respective society models. Additionally, it will be focussed on the question if constraints on work and mobility can be compensated through the resources of social capital.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/87613/ | ||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | ||||||
Title: | Gender Relations in Suburbia | ||||||
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Date: | 12 June 2013 | ||||||
Refereed publication: | No | ||||||
Open Access: | No | ||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||
Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
Keywords: | Mobility, Gender, Suburbia | ||||||
Event Title: | 5th Nordic Geographers' Meeting | ||||||
Event Location: | Reykjavik, Island | ||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||
Event Dates: | 11.-14. Juni 2013 | ||||||
Organizer: | University of Iceland | ||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||
HGF - Program: | Transport | ||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | other | ||||||
DLR - Research area: | Transport | ||||||
DLR - Program: | V - no assignment | ||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | V - no assignment | ||||||
Location: | Berlin-Adlershof | ||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Transport Research > Mobility and Urban Development | ||||||
Deposited By: | Rahn, Cornelia | ||||||
Deposited On: | 14 Jan 2014 13:35 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2014 13:35 |
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