Women In Social Change

Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721755

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Women's Activism and Social Change by Nancy A. Hewitt Pdf

In Women's Activism and Social Change, Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.

Author : Doris H. Gray,Nadia Sonneveld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419505

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Women and Social Change in North Africa by Doris H. Gray,Nadia Sonneveld Pdf

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 1588261719

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Modernizing Women by Valentine M. Moghadam Pdf

Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."

Author : R. Emerson Dobash,Russell P. Dobash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134959457

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Women, Violence and Social Change by R. Emerson Dobash,Russell P. Dobash Pdf

Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and social services to provide greater assistance to women. The book provides important evidence on the way social movements can successfully challenge institutions of the State as well as salutatory lessons on the nature of diverted and thwarted struggle. Throughout the book the Dobashes' years of researching violence against women is illustrated in the depth of their analysis. They maintain the tradition established in their first book, Violence Against Wives, which was widely accalimed.

Author : Maja Mikula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136782787

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Women, Activism and Social Change by Maja Mikula Pdf

Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group. This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, existing transformations in society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors examine women's activities and conditions in diverse social and political contexts, from revolutionary societies, to status quo societies, to societies in decline. With its primary focus on agency and social change, this book deconstructs patriarchal discourses and unearths aspects of female agency in an array of cultural, historical and geopolitical contexts. Chapters on movements in China, Japan, Australia, Croatia, Russia and a range of other countries both contribute to our understanding of change in those societies and seek to locate women at the center of politically aware movements. Although not exclusively a book about feminist activism, this essential collection is motivated by the feminist desire to restore to history a range of women's experiences. This book introduces new ways of thinking across boundaries, identities and complexities in a still essentially patriarchal world. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, activism and comparative politics.

Author : Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520321809

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Women in Soviet Society by Gail Warshofsky Lapidus Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Mary K. Trigg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813546858

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Leading the Way by Mary K. Trigg Pdf

Leading the Way is a collection of personal essays written by twenty-one young, hopeful American women who describe their work, activism, leadership, and efforts to change the world. It responds to critical portrayals of this generation of "twenty-somethings" as being disengaged and apathetic about politics, social problems, and civic causes. Bringing together graduates of a women's leadership certificate program at Rutgers University's Institute for Women's Leadership, these essays provide a contrasting picture to assumptions about the current death of feminism, the rise of selfishness and individualism, and the disaffected Millennium Generation. Reflecting on a critical juncture in their livesùthe years during college and the beginning of careers or graduate studiesùthe contributors' voices demonstrate the ways that diverse, young, educated women in the United States are embodying and formulating new models of leadership, at the same time as they are finding their own professional paths, ways of being, and places in the world. They reflect on controversial issues such as gay marriage, gender, racial profiling, war, immigration, poverty, urban education, and health care reform in a post-9/11 era. Leading the Way introduces readers to young women who are being prepared and empowered to assume leadership roles with men in all public arenas, and to accept equal responsibility for making positive social change in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ghazala Jamil
Publisher : Social Change in Contemporary
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9353887747

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Women in Social Change by Ghazala Jamil Pdf

The book examines the history of the women's rights movement in India and discusses achievements and setbacks.

Author : Ellen Annandale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134655526

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Women's Health and Social Change by Ellen Annandale Pdf

Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 In this important text, Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the contemporary social relations of gender and women’s health, outlining what an adequate feminist analysis of women’s health might look like.

Author : Elizabeth Jelin
Publisher : Zed Bks
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0862328705

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Women and Social Change in Latin America by Elizabeth Jelin Pdf

This book comprises six case studies : on Argentina, Bolivia (2x), Brazil, Chile and Peru. The six studies present different aspects of the women's movement and organisations and employ different methodologies (f.e. Women settlers in Lima, women and trade unions in Chile and peasant women's organisation in Bolivia)

Author : Jana Matson Everett
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0312887310

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Women and Social Change in India by Jana Matson Everett Pdf

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887060684

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Women, Religion, and Social Change by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Ellison Banks Findly Pdf

De bijdragen in dit boek onderzoeken welke rol vrouwen van diverse religieuze achtergronden hebben gespeeld in revoluties en sociale veranderingen. Er wordt nagegaan hoe religies de deelname van vrouwen aan het sociale veranderingsproces stimuleren of belemmeren. Alle grote wereldgodsdiensten en hun verschillende lokale invullingen komen aan bod.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317460619

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Rural Women in Urban China by Tamara Jacka Pdf

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.

Author : Simi Afonja,Bisi Aina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070571828

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Nigerian Women in Social Change by Simi Afonja,Bisi Aina Pdf

Author : R. Emerson Dobash,Russell P. Dobash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134959464

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Women, Violence and Social Change by R. Emerson Dobash,Russell P. Dobash Pdf

Demonstates how refuges and shelters stand at the core of the battered women's movement, and how the movement has challenged the police, courts and social services to provide greater assistance to women in both Britain and the US.