Women Past And Present

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400845057

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Women in the Middle East by Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women within their individual economic situations, identities, families, and geographies, Women in the Middle East examines the experiences of women in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in Iran, and in all the Arab countries. Keddie discusses the interaction of a changing Islam with political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments. In doing so, she shows that, like other major religions, Islam incorporated ideas and practices of male superiority but also provoked challenges to them. Keddie breaks with notions of Middle Eastern women as faceless victims, and assesses their involvement in the rise of modern nationalist, socialist, and Islamist movements. While acknowledging that conservative trends are strong, she notes that there have been significant improvements in Middle Eastern women's suffrage, education, marital choice, and health.

Author : Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu,Steve Fleetwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1443856797

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Women Past and Present by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu,Steve Fleetwood Pdf

In Western societies, many traditional feminist claims have already been fulfilled both in law and in official discourse. Indeed, legislative steps have already been taken towards securing civil and political rights and equal opportunities for women. This, of course, is not the case in many other regions of the world, as some of the chapters in this book clearly testify. Yet, notwithstanding the gains achieved in Western societies, residual forms of resistance and prejudice still persist in discourses, categories and discriminative practices in this so-called post-feminist era. Furthermore, new manifestations of asymmetries in gender relations and new ways of thinking and experiencing subjectivity are currently emerging, as a result of growing globalisation, economic crisis, migration patterns, female sex and labour trafficking, trans-nationalism, and new technologies, not to mention the beauty and body-sculpting industries.The chapters in this collection represent a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and international engagement with biography, and feminist and gender issues, and reveal important insights and challenge some traditional views, interpretations and understandings. The focus of attention of this collection is twofold. It outlines the struggle of women to overthrow the various forces that have, in various spatio-temporal relations, worked against them. It also reveals the significant contribution made by specific women to the establishment of more democratic and gender-balanced societies that grant women a more egalitarian political, economic and social existence. To this end, central questions and issues surrounding gender identity and gender politics are discussed, which serve to raise awareness about gender, power, ideologies, institutions, everyday practices, culture and discourse.

Author : August Bebel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Socialism
ISBN : IND:32000000092975

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Woman in the Past, Present and Future by August Bebel Pdf

Author : Jarna Heinonen,Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351796583

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Women in Business Families by Jarna Heinonen,Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Pdf

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was both socially and economically the foundation of the family business. Families were not only production units, but also education and consumption units that conveyed norm structures, values and professional identity to next generation. Although female family members have always been active participants in family businesses over the centuries, their role has often been neglected in previous studies. Women in Business Families: From Past to Present presents both conceptual and theoretically informed empirical papers addressing three related themes relevant for family business and gender in past and in present: heroic women entrepreneurs; invisibility / visibility of women in businesses; and business succession. The book Women in Business Families: From Past to Present balances between both historical and contemporary analyses. The chapters integrate the notions of time and gender in focusing on family businesses or business families in past and in present. This volume will be of vital reading to researchers and academics in the fields of Gender Studies, Family Business, Organizational studies, Entrepreneurship and the various related disciplines.

Author : August Bebel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : California
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087375689

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Woman in the Past, Present and Future by August Bebel Pdf

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351586269

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Women Writing Across Cultures by Pelagia Goulimari Pdf

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Author : Shirley Ardener,Fiona Bowie,Deborah Kirkwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000323221

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Women and Missions: Past and Present by Shirley Ardener,Fiona Bowie,Deborah Kirkwood Pdf

This collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at 19th century women missionaries as presented in literature, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the mission field and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female workers. Although they are traditionally presented as wives and support workers, it becomes apparent that, on the contrary, women missionaries often played a culturally important role. The second and longest section asks whether women missionaries are indeed a special case, and provides some fascinating studies of the impact of Christian missions on women in both historical material and a wealth of contemporary material.Of particular value is the perspective of those who were themselves objects of missionary activity and who reflected upon this experience. Women actively absorbed and adapted the teachings of the Christian missionaries, and Western models are seen to be utilized and developed in sometimes unexpected ways.

Author : Josefa Ros Velasco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1536120588

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Feminism by Josefa Ros Velasco Pdf

Editor Biography:Josefa Ros Velasco (1987) received degrees in Philosophy (2010) and in Advertising and Public Relations (2011) with Honors from the University of Murcia. She also received a Master's in Contemporary Thought (2011) and in Teacher Education (2012) with Honors from the same institution. Excellent Program of Doctor in Philosophy at University Complutense of Madrid. She is FPU scholar by Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports in the Department of the History of Philosophy (UCM). DAAD scholar at Internationales Zentrum f�r Kultur und Technikforschung (IZKT Stuttgart Universit�t) in 2013; Deutsches Literatur-Archiv Marbach (DLA) "Einmonatiges" Scholar in 2014; FPU short-term research scholar at DLA in 2014. Research groups: "Saavedra Fajardo Library of Hispanic Political Thought" (HUM2007-60799); "History and Videogames: the impact of new media entertainment on the medieval past knowledge" (HAR2011-25548). Research areas: Hans Blumenberg's philosophy, Anthropology, Prehistory, Hipochondria, Boredom. Papers (selection): Paradigms for a Metaphorology of the Cosmos, Studies in History and Philosophy of Physics, 52 (2015); The Evolution of Language: An Anthropological Approach, Evolutionary Anthropology, 25 (2016).Book Description:Presently, our concern for the social, political and economic situation of women remains as valid as it was in the last century. Despite the progress made worldwide, we continue to witness a reality in which gender issues generate injustice, lack of freedom and violation of human rights. Researchers constantly strive to analyze women phenomena and denounce its consequences in the attempt to achieve an egalitarian world in which differences are understood and respected. This book is one of the fruits of such efforts. Scholars interested in women's issues have joined in this volume in order to register, through their work, a commitment to progress towards a better society. With this work, the authors attempt to promote the voice of women who, even in the twenty-first century, feel deprived of their well-deserved security. At the same time, they attempt not only to keep alive the awareness about women's situation, but also create an academic meeting point that shows the most current areas of research around women's issue. Through this collaboration, the authors hope to achieve a review of contemporary approaches to women's studies. It is for all the above that they have entitled this book Feminism: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, because the authors are going to address how humanity is coping with the proposals of the last century. The authors want to show the most current points of view on women's issues through researches that are taking place in different geographic places, thanks to a procedure based on the case studies and methods. Finally, they will attempt to clarify what the future holds for women and state their demands firsthand.Target Audience:i)

Author : Sue Thomas,Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190292676

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Women and Elective Office by Sue Thomas,Clyde Wilcox Pdf

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign for the presidency in 2004 and the widespread discussion of a run in 2008 by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have significantly raised the profile of women on the national political stage. At the same time, progress in electing women to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures has stalled. The essays in Women and Elective Office: Past, Present and Future, which feature research on women as political candidates and officeholders, address this paradox. Recruitment patterns, media portrayals, and voter reactions to women candidates are analyzed along with the impact of women in office relative to the challenges they face. The 2nd edition includes increased coverage of women on the congressional level, women officeholders of color, and analysis of women parliamentarians worldwide. In total, Women and Elective Office offers a comprehensive look at the experiences and influence of women politicians today, while considering women's prospects for political leadership in the twenty-first century.

Author : August Bebel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Socialism
ISBN : OCLC:221554370

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Woman in the Past, Present and Future by August Bebel Pdf

Author : Noga Efrati
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231530248

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Women in Iraq by Noga Efrati Pdf

Noga Efrati outlines the first social and political history of women in Iraq during the periods of British occupation and the British-backed Hashimite monarchy (1917–1958). She traces the harsh and long-lasting implications of British state building on Iraqi women, particularly their legal and political enshrinement as second-class citizens, and the struggle by women's rights activists to counter this precedent. Efrati concludes with a discussion of post-Saddam Iraq and the women's associations now claiming their place in government. Finding common threads between these two generations of women, Efrati underscores the organic roots of the current fight for gender equality shaped by a memory of oppression under the monarchy. Efrati revisits the British strategy of efficient rule, largely adopted by the Iraqi government they erected and the consequent gender policy that emerged. The attempt to control Iraq through "authentic leaders"—giving them legal and political powers—marginalized the interests of women and virtually sacrificed their well-being altogether. Iraqi women refused to resign themselves to this fate. From the state's early days, they drew attention to the biases of the Tribal Criminal and Civil Disputes Regulation (TCCDR) and the absence of state intervention in matters of personal status and resisted women's disenfranchisement. Following the coup of 1958, their criticism helped precipitate the dissolution of the TCCDR and the ratification of the Personal Status Law. A new government gender discourse shaped by these past battles arose, yet the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, rather than helping cement women's rights into law, reinstated the British approach. Pressured to secure order and reestablish a pro-Western Iraq, the Americans increasingly turned to the country's "authentic leaders" to maintain control while continuing to marginalize women. Efrati considers Iraqi women's efforts to preserve the progress they have made, utterly defeating the notion that they have been passive witnesses to history.

Author : Katherine L. French,Allyson M. Poska
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Women
ISBN : 0618246258

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Women and Gender by Katherine L. French,Allyson M. Poska Pdf

[This book] is a survey of women's history in Western Civilization from the earliest days of human experience to the present. It examines women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities and provides balanced coverage of political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The text focuses on five major themes: the relationship between historical events and ideas and women's lives; the history of the family and sexuality; the social construction of gender; the differences between cultural ideas about women and the lives of actual women; women's perceptions of themselves and their roles.-Back cover.

Author : Industrial Relations Research Association
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Bureau of National Affairs
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040582145

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Working Women by Industrial Relations Research Association Pdf

Author : Janet Gyatso,Hanna Havnevik
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 0231130988

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Women in Tibet by Janet Gyatso,Hanna Havnevik Pdf

Collection of historical, literary, ethographical essays about the history - Women in traditional Tibet - and present situation of women in Tibet - Modern Tibetan Women, offering data and reflection on certain topics, like the lives of individual women. Based on texts, anthropological data, literature, newspaper articles, fieldwork and oral history.

Author : AUGUST. BEBEL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033321095

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WOMAN IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE by AUGUST. BEBEL Pdf