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Global dimensions of gender and carework
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- Zimmerman, Mary K. > (ed.)
- Litt, Jacquelyn S. > (ed.)
- Bose, Christine E. > (ed.)
Global dimensions of gender and carework
Why are women such prominent workers in the global marketplace? Why do so many perform jobs that involve carework? What political forces have made these women key participants in globalization? What are the consequences for the women themselves, for their families, and for societies and international relations in general? .This book offers an examination of globalization, examining the lives of the women at the center of these new global dynamics. Arguing that society is facing multiple crises of care, the authors develop a new framework for understanding the interplay of globalization, gender, and carework. In four original essays, they examine gender, race, and class inequality: migration, citizenship, and the politics of social control: the evolving meanings of motherhood: and new social definitions of carework and the personal transformation of careworkers. Excerpts from the classic works in the field as well as recent cutting-edge research studies support the examination of each of these growing global crises.- Creator
- Zimmerman, Mary K. > (ed.)
- Litt, Jacquelyn S. > (ed.)
- Bose, Christine E. > (ed.)
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Learning to stand and speak
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- Kelley, Mary
Learning to stand and speak
Kelley measures the transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. .By the 1850s, the large majority of women engaged in public life as educators, writers, editors, and reformers had been schooled at female academies and seminaries. Although most women did not enter these professions, many participated in networks of readers, literary societies, or voluntary associations that became the basis for benevolent societies, reform movements, and activism in the antebellum period. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship.- Creator
- Kelley, Mary
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The emerging female citizen
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- Smith, Theresa Ann
The emerging female citizen
In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, this book not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800s. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias--similar to French salons--and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers an interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies.- Creator
- Smith, Theresa Ann
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Contours of citizenship
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- Abraham, Margaret > [ed]
- Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling > [ed]
- Maratou-Alipranti, Laura > [ed]
- Tastsoglou, Evangelia > [ed]
Contours of citizenship
In a globalized world of collapsing economic borders and formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand. At the same time, with the rise of neo-liberalism, welfare state retrenchment, decline of state employment, re-privatization and the gap between rich and poor, the economic, social and political citizenship rights of certain categories of people are increasingly curtailed. This book examines the complexity of citizenship in historical and contemporary contexts. It draws on empirical research from a range of countries, contexts and approaches in addressing women and citizenship and covers a selection of issues to include immigration, ethnicity, class, nationality, political and economic participation, institutions and the private and public spheres.- Creator
- Abraham, Margaret > [ed]
- Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling > [ed]
- Maratou-Alipranti, Laura > [ed]
- Tastsoglou, Evangelia > [ed]
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Quebec women and legislative representation
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- Tremblay, Manon
Quebec women and legislative representation
Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's population, yet they continue to occupy a minority of seats in its National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To explain why this is the author examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an indepth portrait of women's underrepresentation and its main causes. Her account not only documents the democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.- Creator
- Tremblay, Manon
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Constitutions and gender
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- Irving, Helen > [ed.]
Constitutions and gender
Offering a perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from long-established to newly emerging democracies this book portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do. Its central insight is that democratic constitutions must serve the needs and aspirations of all the people, and constitutional legitimacy requires opportunities for participation in both the fashioning and functioning of a country's constitution.- Creator
- Irving, Helen > [ed.]
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Feminism and motherhood in Western Europe 1890-1970
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- Allen, Ann Taylor
Feminism and motherhood in Western Europe 1890-1970
Motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, for example, Allen argues that the problem must be examined in terms of its demographic and political development through history. Allen highlights the feminist movements in Western Europe--primarily Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands--and explores the implications of the maternal role for women's aspirations to the rights of citizenship. Among the topics Allen explores are the history of the maternal role, psychoanalysis and theories on the mother-child relationship, changes in family law from 1890-1914, the economic status of mothers, and reproductive responsibility.- Creator
- Allen, Ann Taylor
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Gendering disability
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- Smith, Bonnie G. > (ed.)
- Hutchison, Beth > (ed.)
Gendering disability
Contributors in this collection of essays explore the intersection of gender and disability in the arts, consumer culture, healing, the personal and private realms, and the appearance of disability in the public sphere. Contains: Critical race theory, feminism, and disability: reflections on social justice and personal identity / by Adrienne Asch: Why the intersexed shouldn't be fixed: insights from queer theory and disability studies / by Sumi Colligan: Interpreting women / by Brenda Jo Brueggemann: Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Inseparable: gender and disability in the amputee-devotee community / by Alison Kafer: Fighting polio like a man: intersections of masculinity, disability, and aging / by Daniel J. Wilson: 'Disability' and 'divorce': a blind Parisian cloth merchant contemplates his options in 1756 / by Catherine J. Kudlick: Bodies in trouble: identity, embodiment, and disability / by Kristin Lindgren: Disabled masculinity : expanding the masculine repertoire / Russell P. Shuttleworth: Helen Keller's love life / by Georgina Kleege: Feeling her way: Audre Lorde and the power of touch / by Sarah E. Chinn: Disability, gender, and national identity in the painting of Frida Kahlo / by Robin Adèle Greeley: 'But, mother I'm-crippled!': Tennessee Williams, queering disability, and dis/membered bodies in performance / by Ann M. Fox: Is there still a 'double handicap'?: economic, social, and political disparities experienced by women with disabilities / by Lisa Schur: Integrating consumer disabilities into models of information processing : color-vision deficiencies and their effects on women's marketplace choices / by Carol Kaufman-Scarborough / Women and emerging disabilities / by Melissa J. Mcneil and Thilo Kroll: The sexist inheritance of the disability movement / by Corbett Joan O'toole.- Creator
- Smith, Bonnie G. > (ed.)
- Hutchison, Beth > (ed.)
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Women going backwards
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- Berns, Sandra
Women going backwards
In this book, signifiers such as gender, worker and family are unpacked and suggestions are made as to how common usage of these signifiers reinforce existing practices and act as barriers to change. Some of these changes are legal, others are social and others are driven by political and policy agendas. By looking at five areas: equal opportunity law, family law, industrial relations law, social welfare law and taxation law, the author examines ways in which men and women see their roles and choices and how these are related to the state, as citizens. The author then examines the definition of citizenship and looks in detail at the concept of the citizen, who is unencumbered by interpersonal obligations, responsibilities and beliefs, using comparative material from Australia, North America and the United Kingdom.- Creator
- Berns, Sandra
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Militant women of a fragile nation
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- Abisaab, Malek
Militant women of a fragile nation
In this book the author takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author looks at the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco industry. Looking at culturally inscribed roles for Middle Eastern women, the book highlights traditions of public activism and militancy among rural women that are in turn adapted to the spaces of the factory. Women employed distinct strategies involving kinship, sectarian, gender, and class ties to enhance their work conditions and social benefits. The author argues that the condition of women can only be explained by exploring the shifting relationship between culture, societal arrangements, and economic settings.- Creator
- Abisaab, Malek
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