Purpose: This article serves as an introduction to six articles featured in a special issue on diversity in the work–life interface. This collection of papers contains research that contemplates the work–life interface in ...

This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen’s autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that ...

This chapter explores the similarities and differences in the histories of women’s advancement in professional work in the 20th-century state socialist context of Hungary and Russia (the largest republic of the USSR). The ...

This chapter explores the ways in which women are called upon to work on and manage their body, personality and sexuality in bestselling Russian self-help literature targeting a female audience. We argue that the aesthetic ...