Women category: 49097 books
Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
Reconsidering the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...
by Hugo Nopo
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower well-being indicators among women, afro-descendants, and indigenous peoples. This is a period in which the world and particularly Latin America has...
The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)
Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and...
by Susan E. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
From the 1940s to the 1970s, millions of women were exposed prenatally to the synthetic estrogen DES, a “wonder drug” intended to prevent miscarriages. However, DES actually had damaging consequences for the women born from DES mothers. The “DES daughters” as they are known, were found to...
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic.
Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into the Dominican Republic’s racist treatment of Haitian descendants within its borders. Jennifer L. Shoaff employs multisited feminist research...
Women of Empire
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: “You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.” Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded...
by Jandhyala B.G. Tilak
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Women's Education and Development analyses the contribution of women's education in India to various dimensions of development. The contribution of the scholars drawn from various disciplines, presents a rich and insightful analyses of women's educational issues from sociological, economic and political...
Women Have Always Worked
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and...
Transformative Policy for Poor Women
A New Feminist Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class, caste, ethnic identity and race? What are the conditions...
Work and Family
Latin American and Caribbean Women in Search of a New Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the context of more general progress in women’s status. Female enrollment rates have increased at all levels of education,...
Women's emancipation and civil society organisations
Challenging or maintaining the status quo?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet Civil Service Organisation (CSO) research tends to ignore considerations...
by Jane Price Knowles, Ellen Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Finally, here is an enlightening and empowering book that defines motherhood from a feminist perspective and then explores the implications of that definition. Feminist authors examine some of women’s full, rich, and varied thoughts and experiences about motherhood. In contrast to the too often...
Prepare To Push
What your pelvic floor and abdomen want you to know about pregnancy and birth.
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
This book is designed to inform and empower women with an honest look at how pregnancy and birth change the body and how women can best support their body through these changes. Written by Kim Vopni - The Fitness Doula, Prepare To Push™ highlights the need to prepare the body for birth and recover...
Slipping Through the Cracks
Status of Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The problems and special needs of black women are still given inadequate attention in social science analysis. Too often black women are subsumed under the category of ""blacks"" or ""women,"" with little consideration for their unique needs. This volume focuses...