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Author : Brenda J. Ellingboe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women's Lifestyles in Costa Rica written by Brenda J. Ellingboe and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilse Abshagen Leitinger
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971623
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Costa Rican Women's Movement written by Ilse Abshagen Leitinger and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader reflects the genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country. It collects the voices of forty-one diverse women who live in Costa Rica, some radical, others strongly conservative, and most ranging inbetween, as they write about their lives, their problems, their aspirations. Unlike the comparative studies of women’s issues that look at several different countries, the reader provides an insider’s view of one small, but quintessentially Latin American, society. These women write of their own experience in organizing and working for change within the Costa Rican community. Some represent groups fitting into traditional “women’s movement” that wants to improve certain aspects of women’s and families’ daily lives. Still others, the “feminists,” argue forcefully that true improvement requires a profound change of power relations in society, of women’s access to power and decision making. The articles are organized into thematic groups that range from the definitions of Feminism in Costa Rica to women in Costa Rican history, women’s legal equality, discrimination against women, and the status of Women’s Studies. The brief biographies that identify each author underscore the leadership of Costa Rican women in Latin American Feminism. The founders and editors of Mujer, one of the most influential Feminist journals in Latin America, are among the authors represented in the reader. The audience for this book will include specialists interested in Latin America, in women in Latin America, and in the international women’s movement.
Author : Erin Foley
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502626101
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Erin Foley and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica is a diverse Latin American country with flourishing wildlife and ecotourism opportunities. This book gives an in-depth study of the country, examining what makes the country unique. Sure to engage eager travelers, this book is a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn more about this incredible, beautiful part of the world.
Author : Megan Rivers-Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637341X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Gringo Gulch written by Megan Rivers-Moore and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gringo Gulch is a spot in San Jose, Costa Rica, home of female sex workers who have male clients from abroad (from North America in particular). Rivers-Moore s work leads the way in a burgeoning scholarly initiative to explore global sex tourism based on long-term qualitative research. Her work on the gulch is populated not only by sex workers and their clients, but also by state agents and NGO workers. All of them, she argues, use sex tourism as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore addresses central questions: why has Costa Rica (a middle-income country thought to be an exceptional success in Latin America) emerged as a major site of sex tourism? How do sex tourists and sex workers derive meaning from their experiences, in what way do they profit from their encounters with each other? And how has the neoliberal entrenchment of state services and provisions across Latin America affected the role of the nation-state in relation to sexuality? This book shifts the conventional analysis away from questions of whether third world women s participation in sexual exchanges with first world men in tourism economies are exploitative; it asks, instead, new questions about how something is gained by all parties involved (presenting opportunities for economic and social mobility in terms of class positioning for all). Audiences for the book will include anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, as well as scholars in Latin American and Caribbean studies. "
Author : Silvia Lara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inside Costa Rica written by Silvia Lara and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1788681495
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Lonely Planet Costa Rica written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Costa Rica is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Pick a river for some heart-pounding white-water rafting; lounge in a hammock or snorkel off uncrowded beaches on the Southern Caribbean Coast; and spot monkeys, crocs, toucans and iguanas. All with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Costa Rica and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Costa Rica: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - covering history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Covers San Jose, Central Valley & Highlands, Caribbean Coast, Northwestern Costa Rica, Arenal & Northern Lowlands, Peninsula de Nicoya, Central Pacific Coast, Southern Costa Rica & Peninsula de Osa The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Costa Rica is our most comprehensive guide to the country, and is designed to immerse you in the culture and help you discover the best sights and get off the beaten track. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Author : Richard Anker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136883207
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World written by Richard Anker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women’s roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and non-government policy and future research in the field. The ILO held an informal gathering of leading researchers in the fields of economics, anthropology, sociology and demography and this volume represents a unique and practically-orientated collection, offering valuable insights into contemporary perspectives on women’s studies and population dynamics.
Author : Rosa Lopez de D'Amico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565738
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Women and Sport in Latin America written by Rosa Lopez de D'Amico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary book draws on sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and history, to explore the diversity, challenges and achievements of Latin American women in sport. It offers an in-depth analysis of women’s sport in ten countries across Latin America, insights into the sport activities of indigenous peoples, and the contributions of Latin American women to sport living outside of the region. The book also provides a comprehensive overview of international developments in gender and sport research, policy development and theory, and addresses sport participation at many levels including in school-based physical education, community and high performance contexts.
Author : Eric Ricaurte
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595808212
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Costa Rican Dream written by Eric Ricaurte and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica's lush tropical rainforests, peaceful reputation, and mild Latin flavor have lured many tourists to venture outside their bubbles and pursue a pseudoadventurous vacation. For these travelers, a visit to Costa Rica most often includes a cloud forest-haze-induced daydream of giving it up all back home and relocating to the "Switzerland of Central America" as an expatriate, semiretired entrepreneur. Such is the case for three thirtysomething small-town Germans who dream of a life in Costa Rica after their first visit and decide to invest in a jungle lodge. When the plans for the new lodge begin to go sour, they decide to move to Costa Rica, recover their investment, and jump right into the dream they concocted amid a cold south German winter. The reality, however, is nothing as pleasant as they imagined. Low on money, they fight to open a lodge in a foreign jungle. The intense tropical conditions, along with a complicated legal system and labor force, will test their personal limits and friendship.
Author : Anne Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135525684
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Female Prostitution in Costa Rica written by Anne Hayes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic, social, and political development. In the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the tenets of liberal nationalism based on racial homogeneity and family values. Women of the highlands were encouraged to reproduce the nation's "more European" stock of workers and to ensure the legal transference of property through legal church marriages - both part of a design to stabilize the coffee exporting project. By contrast, prostitutes and other working women of Puntarenas, many immigrants from the "less European" populations of neighboring regions and most in concubinage, were freer to do what the law prescribed - register as prostitutes in legitimate trade. Such regional disparities reveal weaknesses in traditional explanations of Costa Rican exceptionalism, which have rested on the premise of cultural homogeneity and have reflected the realities of only one region of the country. The book advances an alternative explanation for the development of the nation's more democratic institutions, situating Costa Rican exceptionalism in the nation's free labor system, of which the labor prostitute in Puntarenas provides an example.
Author : Catherine Hakim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191583308
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century written by Catherine Hakim and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hakim presents a new, multi-disciplinary theory for explaining and predicting current and future patterns of women's choice between employment and family work. Preference theory is the first theory developed specifically to explain women's behaviour and choices. As such, it constitutes a major break from male-centred theorizing to date in sociology and economics. Preference theory is grounded on the substantial body of new research on women's work and fertility that has flourished within feminist scholarship. It identifies five major historical changes that collectively are producing a qualitatively new scenario for women in prosperous societies in the 21st century. Throughout the analysis, the USA and Britain illustrate what the new scenario means for women, how it alters their preferences and work-lifestyles choices. Hakim also reviews research evidence on contemporary developments across Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the far East to develop a new theory that is genuine international in perspective.
Author : Linda L. Lindsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317348087
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Gender Roles written by Linda L. Lindsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sociological perspective of gender that can be applied to our lives. Focusing on the most recent research and theory–both in the U.S. and globally–Gender Roles, 6e provides an in-depth, survey and analysis of modern gender roles and issues from a sociological perspective. The text integrates insights and research from other disciplines such as biology, psychology, anthropology, and history to help build more robust theories of gender roles.
Author : women of the Empowering Women Alliance
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039162452
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Empowering Women With Words written by women of the Empowering Women Alliance and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its series, Empowering Women With Words: Life-Changing Conversations will engage you with diverse stories, each brimming with insights, life lessons, and personal revelations. Fifteen women from different walks of life came together and inspired one another with their tales of courage, strength, resilience, perseverance, and faith. These women now share their powerful and relatable narratives, full of transformation and growth, for the benefit of women worldwide. Their vibrant, real-life stories appeal to modern women of all ages. Enjoy your discovery as each author takes you on an inspiring, surprising, encouraging, and ultimately empowering journey.
Author : Michele Kettles
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736057691
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Women's Health and Fitness Guide written by Michele Kettles and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the benefits of exercise for women, from osteoporosis prevention to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, this book reviews the physiological fitness differences between men and women. It also helps women to tailor an exercise programme to their stage in life: adolescence, pre-menopause, menopause, post-menopause and ageing.
Author : Jo Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781475049015
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Butterfly in the City written by Jo Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More women than ever before in known history are travelling and living alone and enjoying it. Choosing a foreign country and learning another language is a happy challenge for author Jo Stuart who chose Costa Rica as her new home. Her story is of the pitfalls and pratfalls of adjusting to a very different culture that seems deceptively like the one she left.She recounts the pleasures of fidgeting during the Sunday morning symphony at the National Theater to discovering a new restaurant with friends, cooking for one, learning she can do the things she has always wanted to do, or the ordeal of becoming a resident. All of her experiences are told with the sensibility of an anthropologist and appreciation for the ironies of life, especially one that is full of the unexpected.Stuart loves Costa Rica and the city of San Jose and sings their praises, advantages and rewards for a woman on her own.
Author : Laura E. Berk
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071895257
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Exploring Lifespan Development written by Laura E. Berk and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Lifespan Development, Fourth Edition, the essentials version of Development Through the Lifespan, Seventh Edition by best-selling author Laura E. Berk, includes the same topics, the same number of chapters, and the same outstanding features, with a focus on the most important information and a greater emphasis on practical, real-life applications.
Author : Atalia Shragai
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496232038
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Cold War Paradise written by Atalia Shragai and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Cold War, a diverse group of U.S. immigrants flocked to Costa Rica, distancing themselves from undesirable U.S. policies at home and abroad. Enchanted with Costa Rica’s natural beauty and lured by the prospect of cheap land, these expatriates—former government employees, businessmen and privileged bourgeois, dissident Quakers and self-seeking hippies, farmers and ecologists—sought a new life in a country that was often dubbed the Switzerland of Central America. Cold War Paradise is a social and cultural history of this little-studied immigration flow. Based on extensive oral histories of these immigrants and their diverse writings, ranging from women’s club cookbooks to personal letters, Atalia Shragai examines the motivations for immigration, patterns of movement, settlements, and processes of identity-making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica from post–World War II to the late 1970s. Exploring such diverse themes as gender, nature, and material culture, this study provides a fresh perspective on inter-American relations from the point of view of ordinary U.S. emigrants and settlers. Shragai traces the formation and evolution of a wide range of identifications among U.S. expats and the varied ways they reconstructed and represented their individual and collective histories within the broader scheme of the U.S. presence in Cold War Central America.
