Author: Alvin Yiu-cheong SoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Rural industrialization and women's liberation
Author: Alvin Yiu-cheong SoGender Politics at Home and Abroad
Author: Hyaeweol ChoiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Choi examines how global Christian networks facilitated the flow of ideas, people and material culture, shaping gendered modernity in Korea.
Women at Work
Author: Thomas DublinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231041676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.
Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Ivy PinchbeckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136936904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gendered Paradoxes
Author: Amy LindPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271076364
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and “unfinished” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist “issue networks” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.
Ottoman Women during World War I
Author: Elif Mahir MetinsoyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108191312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
During war time, the everyday experiences of ordinary people - and especially women - are frequently obscured by elite military and social analysis. In this pioneering study, Elif Mahir Metinsoy focuses on the lives of ordinary Muslim women living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It reveals not only their wartime problems, but also those of everyday life on the Ottoman home front. It questions the existing literature's excessive focus on the Ottoman middle-class, using new archive sources such as women's petitions to extend the scope of Ottoman-Turkish women's history. Free from academic jargon, and supported by original illustrations and maps, it will appeal to researchers of gender history, Middle Eastern and social history. By showing women's resistance to war mobilization, wartime work life and the everyday struggles which shaped state politics, Mahir Metinsoy allows readers to draw intriguing comparisons between the past and the current events of today's Middle East.
Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
Author: Kay Ann JohnsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226401944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
Modernizing Women
Author: Valentine M. MoghadamPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261717
Category : Muslim women
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221108443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
2nd version of a 1994 publication.
Women's Rights to House and Land
Author: Irene TinkerPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555878177
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The authors of this volume focus on such issues as property use and ownership, efforts to recognize women's economic rights through development programming, poverty and women-headed households, and household bargaining. The impact of various development policies is also surveyed.