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Author : Alida Brill
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1558611118
Leaders from thirty countries reveal the problems, sacrifices, rewards, and realities of women in public life.
Author : Jilly Boyce Kay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030472870
This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scold’s bridle are no longer in use to punish women’s speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated ‘voices’ of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the ‘traumatised voice’ in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the ‘unleashing’ of women’s voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that women’s speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to ‘find their voice’, but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.
Author : Torild Skard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447315803
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Do women national leaders represent a breakthrough for the women’s movement, or is women’s leadership weaker than the numbers imply? This unique book, written by an experienced politician and academic, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how and why women in 53 countries rose to the top in the years since World War II. Packed with fascinating case studies detailing the rise to power of all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, the motives, achievements and life stories of the female top leaders, including findings from interviews carried out by the author, provide a nuanced picture of women in power. The book will have wide international appeal to students, academics, government officials, women’s rights activists and political activists, as well as anyone interested in international affairs, politics, social issues, gender and equality.
Author : Marilyn Waring
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802080766
Marilyn Waring probes the 'world behind the mask' in these three remarkable essays on women in politics, economics and work, and human rights. First, she pulls away the masks that women who are elected to parliamentary office are forced to wear. How do we women find ourselves trapped in the institution's games? How does that affect our ability to make progress on issues of primary importance to us? What does that do to our self-image? Can we even afford to be aware of this? The second essay continues Waring's powerful writing on economics and the concept of work. She updates the international situation described in her bestseller Counting for Nothing. Based on her project experience with the United Nations, she exposes the gap between rhetoric and consequence: you wash your pig: this is work; you wash your child: this is welfare... it has no value. The last essay unmasks the rhetoric of human rights. Waring shows how nation states exploit United Nations conventions, while also explaining the opportunities the conventions provide for political action.
Author : James Benjamin Stewart,Joyce E. Allen-Smith
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412818818
This volume is unique in its focus on the current economic status of black Americans in rural areas. This topic has had relatively limited visibility in recent years due, in part, to the high degree of urbanization among blacks. However, to neglect rural blacks in the United States would constitute a tremendous disservice both to the legacy of the ongoing struggle of blacks to achieve overall economic parity and to current efforts to ameliorate the particular disadvantages faced by this segment of the American population. Blacks in Rural America will help fill a gap in the literature examining the disadvantaged status of rural blacks. It remedies the lack of information about how the well-being of blacks in rural America is affected by various public policies. This important volume will challenge readers to pay greater attention to the structure of the agrarian sector of the population as such. It is a necessary addition to the libraries of economists, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars of black studies.
Author : Xiaoping Li
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841368
This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.
Author : Jorge I. Domínguez,Alejandro Poiré
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415921597
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Hanna Herzog
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472109456
Considers the cultural and structural limitations on the participation of women in politics
Author : Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136053504
The suppression of war has been the primary objective of the United Nations for almost fifty years, and stopping a war before it starts is easier than ending a war already underway. History, however, has shown that military interventions and economic sanctions often do more harm than good. In Preventive Diplomacy, Nobel prize winners, top officials, and revered thinkers tackle these issues and explore the process of conflict prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader on global politics demonstrates that when new insights and methodologies on public health are applied to the handling of international disasters, the change in policy perspective is intriguing--even hopeful.
Author : Devaki Jain,Diane Elson
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132107415
Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different parts of the world, reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promote equality and sustainability. The contributors argue that the very approach being taken to understand and measure progress, and plan for and evaluate development, needs rethinking in ways that draw on the experiences and knowledge of women. All the essays, in diverse ways, offer proposals for alternative ideas to address the limitations and contradictions of currently dominant theories and practices in development, and move towards the creation of a socially just and egalitarian world.
Author : John Pratt,David Brown,Mark Brown,Simon Hallsworth,Wayne Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134018550
This book seeks to understand the increase in prisoners in the western world. It brings together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns of punishment across different types of societies, and to provide a range of theoretical analyses and commentaries to help understand their significance.
Author : David Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199230969
Examining the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide this title compares the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke Redergard.
Author : Sue Hobbs,Christopher Hamerton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317755487
This new textbook will provide students of criminology with a better understanding of criminal justice policy and, in doing so, offers a framework for analysing the social, economic and political processes that shape its creation. The book adopts a policy-oriented approach to criminal justice, connecting the study of criminology to the wider study of British government, public administration and politics. Throughout the book the focus is on key debates and competing perspectives on how policy decisions are made. Recognising that contemporary criminal justice policymakers operate in a highly politicised, public arena under the gaze of an ever-increasing variety of groups, organisations and individuals who have a stake in a particular policy issue, the book explores how and why these people seek to influence policymaking. It also recognises that criminal policy differs from other areas of public policy, as policy decisions affect the liberty and freedoms of citizens. Throughout, key ideas and debates are linked to wider sociology, criminology and social policy theory. Key features include: a foreword by Tim Newburn, leading criminologist and author of Criminology (2nd Edition, 2013), a critical and informed analysis of the concepts, ideas and institutional practices that shape criminal justice policy making, an exploration of the relationship between criminal justice and wider social policy, a critical analysis of the debate about how and why behaviour becomes defined as requiring a criminal justice solution, a range of case studies, tasks, seminar questions and suggested further readings to keep the student engaged. This text is perfect for students taking modules in criminology; criminal justice; and social and public policy, as well as those taking courses on criminal and administrative law.
Author : Audrey Petty
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781940450056
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
Author : Jo Brayford,Francis B Cowe,John Deering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134029822
What Else Works? has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and ‘one size fits all’ approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably limited in its scope and effectiveness. The book seeks to dispel the view of probation service users as 'offenders', and socially excluded people as 'problems' to be managed and treated, and instead considers more creative alternatives to reduce both re-offending and social exclusion. These include working separately with women, black and minority ethnic groups, local community-focussed projects, in education and nature and conservation programmes. The reader is encouraged to think about past and current policy, practice, and the relationship between practitioners and offenders or other socially excluded people. Questions are raised as to whether, and how, practice could be different and contributors explore the theme of creative and change-focussed practice or focus on a particular approach to a practice. This book will appeal to students on criminal justice, criminology and social work courses, professionals operating in these fields as well as the wider audience of professionals and academics who may engage with these ‘service users’ from a range of policy and practice perspectives.
