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Women Past and Present

Author : Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443856799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Women Past and Present written by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women in the Middle East

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084505X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Middle East written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women and Elective Office

Author : Sue Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292679
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Women and Elective Office written by Sue Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women in Business Families

Author : Jarna Heinonen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351796585
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Women in Business Families written by Jarna Heinonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Woman in the Past, Present and Future

Author : August Bebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Past, Present and Future written by August Bebel and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and Gender

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780618246250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender written by Katherine L. French and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [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.

Woman in the Past, Present and Future

Author : August Bebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Past, Present and Future written by August Bebel and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and Missions: Past and Present

Author : Shirley Ardener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323226
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women and Missions: Past and Present written by Shirley Ardener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Speaking of Feminism

Author : Rachel F. Seidman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653095
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Feminism written by Rachel F. Seidman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Women's Marches to the MeToo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century. But how does a new generation of activists understand the work of the movement today? How are their strategies and goals unfolding? What worries feminist leaders most, and what are their hopes for the future? In Speaking of Feminism, Rachel F. Seidman presents insights from twenty-five feminist activists from around the United States, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. Allowing their voices to take center stage through the use of in-depth oral history interviews, Seidman places their narratives in historical context and argues that they help explain how recent new forms of activism developed and flourished so quickly. These individuals' compelling life stories reveal their hard work to build flexible networks, bridge past and present, and forge global connections. This book offers essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary American women's movement in all its diversity. Interviewees include: Noorjahan Akbar Soledad Antelada Elisa Camahort Page Park Cannon Soraya Chemaly Dana Edell Kate Farrar Ivanna Gonzalez Tara Hall Trisha Harms Kwajelyn Jackson Holly Kearl Emily May Kenya McKnight Samhita Mukhopadhyay Ho Nguyen Katie Orenstein Patina Park Erin Parrish Andrea Pino Joanne Smith Rebecca Traister Alice Wilder Kabo Yang Rye Young

Women Writing Across Cultures

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351586262
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Women Writing Across Cultures written by Pelagia Goulimari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women in Tibet

Author : Janet Gyatso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231130981
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Women in Tibet written by Janet Gyatso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Woman's Work

Author : Ann Oakley
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Woman's Work written by Ann Oakley and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Past in the Present

Author : Amy Thompson McCandless
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Past in the Present written by Amy Thompson McCandless and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first history of women's higher education in the 20th-century South examines national and regional influences that have made this educational experience unique.

Holding up Half the Sky

Author : Shirley Mow
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558614659
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Holding up Half the Sky written by Shirley Mow and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies.

Woman in the Past, Present, and Future

Author : August Bebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722215227
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Past, Present, and Future written by August Bebel and published by . This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminism

Author : Josefa Ros Velasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536120585
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Feminism written by Josefa Ros Velasco and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)

American Women's History

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199328331
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book American Women's History written by Susan Ware and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.