Women Across Cultures examines contemporary women's issues and empowerment from a global perspective. Gender inequality is examined as a historical, sociocultural phenomenon within the context of interlocking systems of inequality such as racism, colonialism, and economic injust…
With Gender and Disability, Lina Abu-Habib examines the situation of women with various types of disability in the Middle East context, and describes the evolution of Oxfam's perspective on working with disabled women.
Las mujeres de mediana edad han sentido tradicionalmente que entraban en una época de pérdida y declive. Como consecuencia de acontecimientos sociales y culturales y de los movimientos de mujeres se ha producido un gran cambio. Lejos de estar marginadas, las mujeres de mediana e…
"Since the mid-1990s increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women; however, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under int…
This work presents a comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models - republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark.
by Thurman, Judith, Borde, Constance, Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila, Beauvoir, Simone de
"Saudi women have become one of the most rapidly changing elements of Arab Islamic society. Concern with socio-economic national development and the pressures to integrate women into the process of social development make the issue of women in Saudi Arabia one of particular inte…
Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.
