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Author : Evelyn Reed
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Pathfinder Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:319510018378496
Assesses women's leading and still largely unknown contributions to the development of human civilization and refutes the myth that women have always been subordinate to men.
Author : Chitra Raghavan,James P. Levine
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611682809
Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessarily in opposition. A multidisciplinary group of scholars examine ideology, practice, and reform efforts in the areas of marriage, divorce, abortion, violence against women, inheritance, and female circumcision across the Islamic world, illuminating how religious and cultural prescriptions interact with legal norms, affecting change in sometimes surprising ways.
Author : Onaiwu W. Ogbomo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1878822780
Drawing upon narrative tradition, reenactment ceremonies, legends of gods and goddesses, and the fusion of numerous genealogies, this book examines gender relations among the Owan people of southern Nigeria between c.1320 and the beginning of the twentieth century. The author challenges the orthodox view that patriarchy has been the norm in all societies, adding to our understanding of the origins of patriarchy and placing its development in an historical perspective. He also suggests a new definition of matriarchy, not simply as rule by women, but also as a phase in the history of societies in which gender equality existed. The book argues that the Owan people once had a social order very close to matriarchy. Despite a large influx from neighbouring peoples with a strong patriarchal tradition, Owan women retained their high social status and power because of their virtual control of the cotton trade, but after the demand for cotton decreased sharply after 1700, their social position declined rapidly until the beginning of the twentieth century, when it was altered legally by the establishment of British rule.ONAIWU W. OGBOMOteaches history at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania.
Author : Nanette J. Davis,Jone M. Keith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317287407
This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and consequences of deviant behaviour and "women’s adaptation to their changing roles." It encompasses monographs, journal articles, books, and government documents in English. This title will be of particular interest to students of sociology and criminology.
Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558616219
“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly This volume of New York Times–bestselling author Marilyn French’s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives of women in societies around the world between feudal times and the French Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen years of collaboration with a team of researchers and prominent historians, the volume opens with fascinating chapters comparing medieval Europe and Japan, disparate cultures which nevertheless shared traditions of male dominated aggression and competitiveness. French then shows how, in Europe, this tradition led to colonialism and imperialism, and the horrific subjugation of indigenous societies, just as women were subjugated in the conquerors’ home countries. As French makes clear in this impassioned women’s history, only with the French Revolution did the political force women exerted powerfully change the course of history. “French gives us grand theory at its best, wading through copious amounts of scholarly data on the histories of civilizations and offering up, in readable prose, an important synthesis.” —Library Journal
Author : Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135025014
First published in 1998. Feminist Social Thought brings together key articles by prominent feminist thinkers, offering students sophisticated treatment of the theoretical topics central to feminist social thought. This reader highlights salient concerns in contemporary feminist scholarship and the advances feminist philosophers have made. The editor's introduction outlines alternative routes through the text, allowing instructors to easily adapt this reader to their particular courses and the interests of their students. Each article is prefaced with a short introduction by the editor placing it in context, highlighting the principle issues and the conclusions reached. Students will find these headnotes helpful when tackling the challenging theoretical issues addressed. Representing a spectrum of feminist thinking, Feminist Social Thought is organized around seven topics constructions of gender; theorizing diversity; figurations of women; subjectivity, agency and feminist critique; social identity, solidarity and political engagement; care and its critics; and women, equality and justice. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of feminist philosophy and encouraged to think critically about challenging questions around pivotal subjects including * How are gender norms instilled, enforced, and perpetuated? * What are the relationships between gender and other socially demarcated positions such as race, class and sexual orientation? * What resources do women have at their disposal for recognizing their subordination and resisting it? * What goals should feminist politics pursue? * How can social and legal equality be reconciled with difference?
Author : Man Singh Das
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 818588000X
The present volume contains original scientific articles about the changing roles of women in developing countries of the Middle East.He also identifies directions of change in Women's roles in Muslim countries.This collection of articles will be valuable in comparative study of women and other countries.In particular,sociologists and other social scientist in western and non-western countries are more likely to benefit from these changing roles of Muslim women.
Author : Maria Mies
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1856497356
Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual division of labour, labour productivity, colonialism, economic role, homemakers, production relations, violence, China, India, Viet Nam, case studies. Bibliography, statistical tables.
Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Women and History; V. 1
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0195051858
A radical reinterpretation of Western civilization argues that male dominance has resulted from, and can be ended by, historical process, and identifies key developments.
Author : Katharine Briar-Lawson,Hal A. Lawson,Charles B. Hennon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231504362
Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-centered policy practice from an international perspective. It provides grassroots strategies for activists and practical guides for both students and practitioners and includes cutting-edge interpretations of the impact of globalization on families, social workers, and other helping professionals and advocates.
Author : Rainuka Dagar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317341598
The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India’s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book explores girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female infanticide and foeticide, and the role of caste and religion. The book spans critical socio-historical contexts and examines the practice of selective right to life. It views the effects of militancy and khaap panchayats, and studies women’s rights discourses and protective legal reforms. The gender imbalance is mapped globally and analysed in the specific conditions of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. The book examines the inter-linkages of gender hierarchies with male child preference and warns that theoretical analyses limited to female foeticide alone cannot address gender inequalities or change the cycle of violence. This will be valuable to scholars and researchers of gender and women studies, sociology, politics, and population and demographic studies. It will also be indispensable for women’s rights activists, NGOs, policy makers, government bodies, and those studying health and family planning.
Author : Carol J. Adams,Marie Fortune
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826408303
Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.
Author : Madhavi Sunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351157742
This volume chronicles a quarter-century of feminist theorizations on equality and liberty. The essays demonstrate a continuing commitment to feminist method (a democratic notion that all people have a right to participate in the production of knowledge of the world, including legal knowledge) and manifest feminism's continuing critical tradition (namely, theorists' willingness to see multiple factors, including feminism itself, as obstructing enlightened constructions of the world). Taken together, the essays suggest that liberty to make the world is not just a means to an end - equality - but is a substantive end in itself.
Author : Stephanie Coontz,Peta Henderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784787998
“To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena did have social origins, origins that must be sought in sociohistorical events and processes.” In this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years. Women’s Work, Men’s Property brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken by the oppression of women in archaic Greece. Men’s Work, Women’s Property will be welcomed by teachers and students of women’s studies and anyone with an interest in the biological, psychological and historical roots of sexual inequality.
Author : Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Matriarchy
ISBN : UOM:39015004774157
Historical roots of the women's movement shown through a discussion of the family structure in ancient matriarchal societies.