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Women's rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The unfinished revolution: Voices from the global fight for women's rights outlines the recent history of the battle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the hopes raised by the Arab Spring are yet to be fulfilled. This anthology opens with a foreword by Christiane...
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A critical analysis of feminist writings on sexuality from a radical feminist and lesbian feminist standpoint. Critical of libertarianism, Denise Thompson provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms of domination and the ways in which feminist theory is marginalised. A must-read for any serious feminist thinker.
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I think it's safe to say our culture is a parody of gender identity. Men desire to be men, but most men haven't the slightest clue what real manhood looks like. Women desire to be women, but most women are stuck in the same rut. And this is because we're always going about it the wrong way. We can be sure of at least one thing: What we're doing isn't working. Not only is it not working, but it's making things worse. Our vision for what men and women...
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Ser mujer negra, lesbiana, gitana, transgénero o diversa funcional implica que el cuerpo sea sometido mediante políticas de intervención social. Estas técnicas nos agreden, pero también nos silencian. Nuestro dolor, físico o mental, se banaliza, se convierte en quejas sin fundamento, en aquello que llaman cuentitis. Por eso, ya no solo la rebelión, la performatividad o la disidencia ha de ser nuestra única forma de lucha al respecto de la...
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This accessible guide provides readers with an introduction to the key concepts and main developments in gender studies. Presenting definitions, explanations and policy implications through discussion of case studies, this book shows how gender intersects with different dimensions of diversity and demonstrates the connections between sex and gender. Using a range of pedagogical features and highlighting the importance of gender in the contemporary...
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Written for the general reader, this 1922 collection by the pioneering sex researcher clearly and cleanly introduces ideas from his major works, and applies them to daily life. Includes "Children and Parents," "The Meaning of Purity," "The Objects of Marriage," "Husbands and Wives," "The Love-Rights of Women," "The Play-Function of Sex," and "The Individual and the Race."
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El libro Las mujeres-espera de la migracin indgena en Nayarit rescata nuevas situaciones e intersecciones de los movimientos de personas en la bsqueda por abrir horizontes entre sujetos olvidados en las sociedades actuales: mujeres indgenas de comunidades de la montaa, mujeres que paciente o impacientemente esperan a quienes se fueron: padres, esposos, hermanos o hijos. Mujeres que sostienen en vilo la esperanza mientras sus hombres intentan empujar...
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Despite economic growth, decreasing fertility rates, and rising education levels, women in Asia are on average 70% less likely than men to be in the labor force, with the country-to-country percentage varying anywhere from 3% to 80%. Results of a new simulation model suggest that closing the gender gap could generate a 30% increase in the per capita income of a hypothetical average Asian economy in one generation. This report discusses the reasons...
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Women's economic empowerment is essential for more inclusive growth in Cambodia. This study takes stock of major gender issues in the Cambodian economy seen through the lens of women's participation, benefit, and agency---the three prerequisites for a fairer distribution of growth benefits. It examines labor market trends and obstacles to women's economic empowerment---particularly in agriculture, business development, and wage employment. Labor migration...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by Instaread Preview: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by relationship expert Dr. John Gray is a self-help guide to understanding the opposite sex so that romantic relationships can be more fulfilling, healthy, and loving. The key to lasting, successful partnerships is understanding and appreciating gender differences by recognizing that men and women operate...
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Historian and philosopher John Fiske tried to reconcile orthodox religious beliefs with Darwin's science, both on the lecture platform and in his collections of essays. Excursions of an Evolutionist is one such collection, eloquently written and containing such chapters as, "Europe Before the Arrival of Man," "The Origins of Protestantism," and "Evolution and Religion," as well as a brief memoir of Charles Darwin.
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In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced women's inequality. In this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic barriers that separate women and men in the office, at home,...
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Summary of All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister | Includes Analysis Preview: All the Single Ladies is an examination of the role of marriage in the lives of women in the United States today and a historical accounting of how the institution arrived at its current juncture. Following an academic investigation into the state of marriages for American women in the past, Traister describes the ways women are reclaiming the institution on their own...
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The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather than as active participants in the workforce, women across eastern and central Europe organized on a local level to resist these changes. Making Their...
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This 1919 anthology of scholarly writings on sex, edited by a physician who struggled against the suppression of such knowledge, covers the topics of education, abstinence, marriage, abortion, divorce, prostitution, disease, rape, sexology, masturbation, obscenity, platonic love, eugenics, sexual ethics, frigidity, the psychology of sex, and other then-forbidden subjects.
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Y, a medida que pasan más años, más compromiso existe por estudiar de cerca la evolución de la participación política de las mujeres y su efecto en la sociedad. ¿El objetivo? Estar e influir. No solo estar. También influir. Y ser mejores, sobre todo mejores. Profundizar en el liderazgo, el discurso y la iconografía de las mujeres en política calma un deseo de saber responder a necesidades evidentes, abarca una cuestión social y ayuda a...
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This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century. Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming...
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What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet....
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Addressing the relationship between the sexes in 1922-"we have made rather a mess of it!"-a pioneering feminist objects to the silence over sex in her time. She discusses the inequality of the sexes, friendship, divorce, marriage, the unmarried, chivalry, and other topics-in a tone that is at once spiritual and truly physical.
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Con vistas a una didáctica con perspectiva de género, esta obra, escrita por docentes investigadores especializados, pretende promover la reflexión sobre lo femenino y lo masculino en el ámbito educativo. Los desafíos dentro de las aulas, a pesar de todo lo que se ha avanzado en materia de género, aún existen y no son pocos. Los estereotipos y los prejuicios de la sociedad actual siguen reproduciendo modelos que encubren y naturalizan numerosas...
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