"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…
This anthology includes some of the most important and influential essays in feminist education theory since the late 70s. Contributors are drawn from traditional liberal feminists, radical postmodern theorists, and those with psychological, philosophical and political agendas.
This anthology includes some of the most important and influential essays in feminist education theory since the late 70s. Contributors are drawn from traditional liberal feminists, radical postmodern theorists, and those with psychological, philosophical and political agendas.
Onderzoek naar het leven van Kruseman in Nederlands Indië, waar zij niet alleen een omstreden leven leidde, maar een voorbeeld was voor andere Indische vrouwen en invloed uitoefende op de vrouwenbeweging in dat land.
Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit…
Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology…
Aiming to offer fresh insights into the history of labour policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, the author of this work examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early 20th century.
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in headscarves and veals. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the vei…
In een snel veranderende wereld, zijn vrouwen in de Volksrepubliek China in harmonie met digitale innovaties en het gebruik van verschillende vormen van moderne massacommunicatiemiddelen zoals het Internet en mobiele telefoon. Vrouwen in China en de Chinese diaspora maken gebrui…
