International Perspectives On Women

Author : Esther Wangari
Publisher : Cognella
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1609278224

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"International Perspectives on Women" provides an interdisciplinary examination of the local and global impacts of the institutionalization of gender roles, class, race, religion, and nationality in social, economic and political policies. This anthology explores how these factors differentiate the life experiences of women. It also examines the negative impacts of such policies on gender relations, environmental health, and economic development, in addition to discussing the mechanisms used to counteract such policies. Readers will learn how gendered perspectives are integrated into economics, politics, and global processes. Selections in "International Perspectives on Women" are organized into three major thematic sections: Part One of the book reviews the origins and constructions of gender roles, class and race, among other factors; Part Two offers a critique of Western feminisms in their universality; and Part Three addresses economic reforms advocated by the international financial institutions and the resultant of feminization and informalization of labor. Dr. Esther Wangari is an Associate Professor of Women s Studies at Towson University. She was the recipient of the prestigious Henry Welcome Award from Maryland Commission of Higher Education and served as Director, Women's Studies Graduate Program from 1999-2005. She has a Ph.D. in International Development and Political Economy from the New School for Social Research in New York, and was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Clark University in Worcester. Dr. Wangari is the author of ""The Heritage Library of African Peoples: Ameru (1995) and co-editor and contributor to "Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences" (1996). She is also an author or co-author of eighteen publications covering a wide range of issues such as "Globalization in the Third World: Impact on Women's Land Rights and Education in Kenya; Reproductive Technology From A Third World Feminist Perspective; Lifespan Development Revisited: African-Centered Spirituality Throughout the Life Cycle"; and "The Effects of Science and Development on Environment and Gender."

Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201666

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Human Rights of Women by Rebecca J. Cook Pdf

Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.

Author : Karen Ross,Carolyn M. Byerly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470777176

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Women and Media by Karen Ross,Carolyn M. Byerly Pdf

Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation. Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries. Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media’s coverage of women politicians, to the marketing of ‘girl power’, to strategizing for equality in newsrooms. Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to reinforce the status quo in power arrangements in society but also to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones. Includes an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media, section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, and discussion questions.

Author : Shirin M. Rai,Geraldine Lievesley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135345945

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Women And The State by Shirin M. Rai,Geraldine Lievesley Pdf

Offering a wide-ranging selection of case studies, this book evaluates women's political, social and economic involvement in Third World countries. It explores both specific experiences of women as well as common themes such as identity, empowerment and the conflict between tradition and modernity.

Author : Karen Ross,Carolyn M. Byerly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470798478

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Women and Media by Karen Ross,Carolyn M. Byerly Pdf

Comprised of original research in diverse genres and medias, Women and Media: International Perspectives brings together eight international scholars to explore key issues of the gender-media relation. Provides important insights into how gender is implicated in media industries. Address key issues of the gender-media relation, from an analysis of news media’s coverage of women politicians, to the marketing of ‘girl power’, to strategizing for equality in newsrooms. Highlights the theme that media have the potential both to reinforce the status quo in power arrangements in society but also to contribute to new, more egalitarian ones. Includes an introduction by the editors that carefully maps the contours of the international struggle between feminists and the media, section overviews, bibliographies, key terms, and discussion questions.

Author : E. Lisa Panayotidis,Paul Stortz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134458240

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Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970 by E. Lisa Panayotidis,Paul Stortz Pdf

This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts. The contributors integrally advance knowledge about the university in history by exploring the intersections of the lived experiences of women students and professors, practices of co-education, and intellectual and academic cultures. They also raise important questions about the complementary and multidirectional flow and exchange of academic knowledge and information among gender groups across programmes, disciplines, and universities. Historical inquiry and interpretation serve as efficacious ways with which to understand contemporary events and discourses in higher education, and more broadly in community and society. This book will provide important historical contexts for current debates about the numerical dominance and significance of women in higher education, and the tensions embedded in the gendering of specific academic programs and disciplines, and university policies, missions, and mandates.

Author : M. Molyneux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230286382

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Women’s Movements in International Perspective by M. Molyneux Pdf

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analysing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and women's movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.

Author : Karen M. Offen,Ruth Roach Pierson,Jane Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349215126

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Writing Women’s History by Karen M. Offen,Ruth Roach Pierson,Jane Rendall Pdf

Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of "experience", the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.

Author : Nanneke Redclift,M Thea Sinclair,M. Thea Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134978212

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Working Women by Nanneke Redclift,M Thea Sinclair,M. Thea Sinclair Pdf

As the female labour force continues to expand, the terms on which women participate remain a considerable problem. Working Women presents a detailed examination of women's position in the paid workforce in a variety of first and third world countries and identifies the common cultural and economic factors which create disadvantage.

Author : ESTHER. WANGARI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793510520

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INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN by ESTHER. WANGARI Pdf

Author : Christine Fontanini,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839098864

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International Perspectives on Gender and Higher Education by Christine Fontanini,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi Pdf

Despite improved access to higher education for women, the distribution of women and men varies considerably between fields of study. The chapters in this edited collection explore the participation status of women in higher education across the varying socio-economic and sociological backgrounds observed in different countries and regions.

Author : Jane H. Bayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mujeres en el servicio civil
ISBN : 9781560230144

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Women and Public Administration by Jane H. Bayes Pdf

This new book is the result of an international research project that spanned nearly a decade. Authors from a half-dozen countries discuss women's roles in public administration in the context of their overall participation in the labor force. Women and Public Administration presents some astounding results derived from the authors’research into a particular country's government, politics, and the role of women in that country. The authors, women born and currently living in India, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and the United States, discuss four main topics: the number and level of female civil servants in the highest ranks of at least two bureaucracies, one concerned with traditionally female roles and one concerned with traditionally male roles; the career histories of these women; an institutional description of women in public bureaucracies; and the perceptions of women in public administration concerning discrimination and equality policies. This important book also describes historical, demographic, economic, and governmental information and women's views of barriers, access to training and advancement, and the general social climate for women employees at various levels within the bureaucracies. Researchers, aware of cultural and language differences and the dangers of imposing a Western model on non-Western cultures, used questionnaires and interviews to obtain much of the information for this study. Each country has its own unique story involving history, the structure of the labor market, the organization of government, and the socialization patterns of the culture, as well as the current patterns of interaction between men and women and current public policies affecting these matters. Women and Public Administration contains much valuable information for everyone interested in women's roles in bureaucracies around the world.

Author : Sandra I. Cheldelin,Maneshka Eliatamby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441144935

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Women Waging War and Peace by Sandra I. Cheldelin,Maneshka Eliatamby Pdf

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Author : P. Markula
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230233942

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Olympic Women and the Media by P. Markula Pdf

This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Author : Holly Johnson,Bonnie S. Fisher,Veronique Jaquier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135006037

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Critical Issues on Violence Against Women by Holly Johnson,Bonnie S. Fisher,Veronique Jaquier Pdf

Violence against women is a global problem and despite a wealth of knowledge and inspiring action around the globe, it continues unabated. Bringing together the very best in international scholarship with a rich variety of pedagogical features, this innovative new textbook on violence against women is specifically designed to provoke debate, interrogate assumptions and encourage critical thinking about this global issue. This book presents a range of critical reflections on the strengths and limitations of responses to violent crimes against women and how they have evolved to date. Each section is introduced with an overview of a particular topic by an expert in the field, followed by thoughtful reflections by researchers, practitioners, or advocates that incorporate new research findings, a new initiative, or innovative ideas for reform. Themes covered include: advances in measurement of violence against women, justice system responses to intimate partner violence and sexual assault, victim crisis and advocacy, behaviour change programs for abusers, and prevention of violence against women. Each section is supplemented with learning objectives, critical thinking questions and lists of further reading and resources to encourage discussion and to help students to appreciate the contested nature of policy. The innovative structure will bring debate alive in the classroom or seminar and makes the book perfect reading for courses on violence against women, gender and crime, victimology, and crime prevention.