This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, this publication disc…
In this book Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She uses a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches. Robinson's consideration of care in both ethical an…
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and pre…
In this book the authors provide readers with a new view of women in America, one that runs counter to what Americans have been besieged with for decades. They want to demonstrate that conservative women are, in fact, the most liberated women in America and the folks to whom you…
This book is a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions gleaned from the experiences of the authors, together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorshi…
Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and…
This reader examines the ways in which work influences our roles in both the public and private spheres. Goodman has selected a key set of essays that examine influential arguments on such themes as the origins of the gendered division of labor; historical trends and economic tr…