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Elisabeth Prügl
Researcher at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Publications - 69
Citations - 1244
Elisabeth Prügl is an academic researcher from Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Feminism & Gender mainstreaming. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1074 citations. Previous affiliations of Elisabeth Prügl include Florida International University.
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The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century
TL;DR: In this article, the ILO Convention on Homework has been used to define the definition of homeworkers as "employees" or self-employees, as defined by the International Organization for Women (IOW).
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Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground?
Birgit Locher,Elisabeth Prügl +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the constructivist failure to conceptualize power and gender as social and pervasive leads constructivists to miss an important part of the empirical reality of power politics, whereas for feminists the question of "Who knows?" is crucial.
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“If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters...”: Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
TL;DR: Prugl, Elisabeth as discussed by the authors argued that this discourse amounted to an exercise in meaning making through the construction of a myth of woman as financially responsible and men as reckless, and interpreted the deployment of this myth in the press as a morality play of fall, rise, and redemption.
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Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of inserting feminist knowledge into institutional contexts through the practices of gender mainstreaming and diversity management are explored. But they do not consider the role of women in these practices.
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Microentrepreneurs and homeworkers: Convergent categories
Elisabeth Prügl,Irene Tinker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the cases of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India and the West Yorkshire Homeworking Group of Great Britain as examples of successful organizations which support home-based workers by combining microenterprise development and union organizing.