Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Women's Studies

A group of distinguished authors review the economic, socio-psychological, and legal aspects of women in traditional and non-traditional jobs.

Identifies changing patterns of labor force participation by married women and analyzes the consequences to women of the work versus family decision.

Significant because it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's invisible' work.

"Gender and Society"

A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropologist"

Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. "Women's Review of Books"

A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropologist"

Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. "Women's Review of Books"

This long-awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics, from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological to issues such as stress from and adaptation to increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been...

"Sellers and Servants" is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women whose alternatives for subsistence are few and cruel: to be a servant or to peddle goods in the markets and streets of Lima. "Contemporary Sociology"

A tour de force . . . Bunster and Chaney set out to tap an inner world of feelings, values, and significance' among poor migrant women in Lima. . . . Using an innovative talking pictures' interview technique, the authors delve into the lives of these poorest of the poor' revealing simultaneously their suffering and their...

According to the findings of this study, college women do not typically use drugs simply for the sake of taking drugs. Drug use was viewed as a part of relationships, and for some of these women, a very important part. Within their relationships, these women socially constructed drugs in traditional (i.e., using discourses of morality, legality, and health/personal safety) ways. They also tended to arrange drugs hierarchically--they created what the author labels an individualized drug acceptability ranking that helped them determine their drug using limits.

This study suggests that the...

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, DEGREESIReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In DEGREESR. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for subsequent scholars to ponder and pursue. - DEGREESIHistory of Education Quarterly DEGREESRThe essays in this book contribute along several dimensions to the new scholarship on a profession and public service of vital importance for well over a century to American literacy, culture and invention. Their authors add to the individual...

The only comprehensive, one-stop source for statistics on women in the United States has now been updated and expanded. Included are approximately 340 new tables and charts, incisive data summaries, a glossary of terms, an extremely useful guide to information sources, as well as an extensive subject index. Highlights of the second edition include data from the 1990 Census, a new section on women's reproductive health, new statistics on women in sports and the armed forces, and broadened coverage of historical trends. Much more than a collection of numbers and cold facts, this handbook...

Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores.

Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea...

Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.

The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to...