Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

Melissa Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright expl... Lees meer

Fixing Families

Jennifer A Reich

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• In Fixing Families , Jennifer Reich takes us inside Child Protective Services for an in-depth look at the entire organization. Following families from... Lees meer

Feminism and the Women's Movement

Barbara Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• In Feminism and the Women's Movement , Barbara Ryan integrates a broad historical view with an analytical framework drawn from the theory of social mo... Lees meer

Rape Work

Patricia Yancey Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still fi... Lees meer

Community Activism and Feminist Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways th... Lees meer

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

Lynn Prince Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equa... Lees meer

Laboring On

Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between t... Lees meer

Grassroots Warriors

Nancy A Naples

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Who are the grassroots warriors on the front lines of the war on poverty? Through in-depth interviews, Nancy Naples presents the voices of over sixty ... Lees meer

The Social Economy of Single Motherhood

Margaret Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers ... Lees meer

Rock-A-By Baby

Verta Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk ... Lees meer

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

Lynn Prince Cooke

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equa... Lees meer

Regulating Sex

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identit... Lees meer

Rape Work

Patricia Yancey Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still fi... Lees meer

Laboring On

Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between t... Lees meer

Making Transnational Feminism

Millie Thayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently s... Lees meer

Black Women and White Women in the Professions

Natalie J Sokoloff

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• Women of all racial\ethnic backrounds and minority men have been hailed as the major beneficiaries of the expansion in political, economic, and employ... Lees meer

Gender Consciousness and Politics

Sue Tolleson Rinehart

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• This book examines the emergence of gender consciousness among women as a significant force in American politics. The author bases her argument on an ... Lees meer

Mothering

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• A collection of essays, framed with original introductions, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings helps students to think critically ab... Lees meer

Making Transnational Feminism

Millie Thayer

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently s... Lees meer

Gender Consciousness and Politics

Sue Tolleson Rinehart

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• This book examines the emergence of gender consciousness among women as a significant force in American politics. The author bases her argument on an ... Lees meer

School-smart and Mother-wise

Wendy Luttrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we ... Lees meer

Understanding Sexual Violence

Diana Scully

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender | nr. 3
• Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violen... Lees meer

Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Gender
• A collection of essays, framed with original introductions, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings helps students to think critically ab... Lees meer