| Description |
1 online resource (718 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Reviewers; Introduction; I. Conceptual and Theoretical Issues; Roles and Statuses of Women; Feminist Epistemology and Research Methods; Conceptualizing Change and Equality in the ""Third World"" Contexts; World Economy, Patriarchy, and Accumulation; II. Political and Legal Contexts; Reclaiming Women's Human Rights; Violence Against Women; Women in Transition to Democracy; Refugee and Displaced Women; Women and War; Gender Justice; III. Sex-Role Ideologies |
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Machismo in Latin America and the CaribbeanIslam and Women's Roles; Modernity and the Mass Media; Gender, Nation, and Race in Film and Video; IV. Demographics and Health; Women and Health; Women and Mortality Trends; Reconceptualizing Risk: A Feminist Analysis of HIV/AIDS; Women's Nutrition Through the Life Cycle; Fertility Trends and Factors Affecting Fertility; Women and Contraception; Women's Control over Their Bodies; Women and Migration; V. Marriage and the Family; Women in the City; Allocation of Labor and Income in the Family; Female-Headed Households; Childrearing Practices |
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Lives of Middle-Aged WomenTheoretical and Practical Aspects in Gender and Aging; VI. Women and Production; Women in Agricultural Systems; Women's Experiences As Small-Scale Entrepreneurs; Women in the Informal Sector of the Economy; Women's Labor Incomes; Sex Segregation in the Labor Force; New Industrial Labor Processes and Their Gender Implications; Women and Home Work; The Impact of Structural Adjustment and Economic Reform on Women; Women's Employment and Multinational Corporation Networks; VII. Women and the Environment; Global Struggles for a Healthy Planet |
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Women's Role in Natural-Resources ManagementWomen and Environmental Activism; VIII. Enabling Conditions for Change; Girls' Educational Access and Attainment; The Explicit and the Hidden School Curriculum; Higher Education and Professional Preparation; Women and Literacy; Women's Participation in Science and Technology; Informal and Nonformal Education; IX. Movements for Change; Women in Anticolonial Movements; International and Bilateral Aid Agencies; Girls and International Development; The United Nations Decade for Women and Beyond |
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Women-Centered Nongovernmental and Grass-Roots OrganizationsTraining Women for Change and Empowerment; X. Geographical Entries; Women in Some Liberal Modernizing Islamic Countries; Jewish and Palestinian Women in Israeli Society; Women in West Africa; Women in East Africa; Women in Southern Africa, Excluding South Africa; Women in South Africa; Women in India; Women in South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal; Women in China; Women in South Korea; Women in Central America; Women in Contemporary Cuba; The Women's Movements in the Southern Cone and Brazil; Women in Oceania |
| Summary |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
XI. Annotated Bibliography |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
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Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Developing countries
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Social conditions
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stromquist, Nelly P
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| ISBN |
9781135498542 |
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1135498547 |
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1306576075 |
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9781306576079 |
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