{"product_id":"womens-business-carnivalesque-spaces-and-transgressive-acts-von-caroline-miller","title":"Women''s Business? Carnivalesque Spaces and Transgressive Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscourse on small business start-up in the UK,  advanced by the British government and other  agencies, is one of encouraging enterprise,  innovation and entrepreneurship. This is especially  the case with respect to women.  It is however  suggested that men are around two and a half times  more likely to be entrepreneurs than women (UK  Global Entrepreneurship Report, 2006). Women are  presented as reluctant entrepreneurs, yet many women  dream of starting-up either as a means to combine  work and family life or as an escape from being  organised by others.  This study explores the  process of start-up through ethnography and  interview data and posits that it is in the stages  before business begins that start-up becomes  problematic for women. The cumulative effects of  seemingly unimportant but negative everyday  exchanges erode women''s will to start. These  exchanges range from women''s business not being  taken seriously and masculine symbolism in the self- employment agency, to the emotional labour  (Hochschild, 1993) or harmonising in the home  demanded by family and friends. Women''s business  only becomes possible in carnivalesque spaces as a  transgressive act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838336275\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838336275","offer_id":39499087904861,"sku":"9783838336275","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b9fccdca-41db-46ef-90b2-7bfb369c25ad.jpg?v=1757655812","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/womens-business-carnivalesque-spaces-and-transgressive-acts-von-caroline-miller","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}