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a comparative analysis of presidents, prime ministers, and chief executives
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Martin, Janet M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Borrelli, MaryAnne > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- politici, regeringsleiders, LHBT, vrouwenbewegingen, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book examinates national executives, focusing on matters of identity, representation, and power. The contributors to this volume address the impact of female executives through political mobilization and participation, policy- and decision-making, and institutional change. Topics include party nomination processes, the intersectionality of race and gender.
transforming reproductive cultures
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pooley, Siân > (ed.)
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- Qureshi, Kaveri
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 2
- Thesaurus
- ouderschap, grootouders, zorgarbeid, historisch, leeftijdsgroepen, homoseksualiteit, etnische minderheidsgroepen, China, Japan, Pakistaans, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zuid-Azië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make |(and break) relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children. Contents: Chapter 1. Between Future Families and Families of Origin: Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations / Robert Pralat: Chapter 2. The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980 / Shane Doyle: Chapter 3. Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China / Michala Hvidt Breengaard: Chapter 4. Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan / Ekaterina Hertog: Chapter 5. Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 1850–1914 / Siân Pooley: Chapter 6. First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis: Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period / Kaveri Qureshi: Chapter 7. Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in North-western Amazonia / Elizabeth Rahman: Chapter 8. Generational Change and Continuity amongst British Mothers: the Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c. 1940–1990 / Angela Davis: Chapter 9. ‘I Feel my Dad every Moment!’: Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices / Punita Chowbey and Sarah Salway: Chapter 10. Becoming Papa: Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles / Adom Philogene Heron
connecting the local and the global
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Midgley, Clare > (ed.)
- Creator
- Twells, Alison > (ed.)
- Creator
- Carlier, Julie > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 1 A 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwennetwerken, imperialisme, nationalisme, religie, vrouwenkiesrecht, vredesbeweging, fascisme, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The book explores how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities. The book is divided into three parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women’s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local.
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- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- DUI 53 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- ondernemers, vrouwennetwerken, gelijke beloning, quota, Duitsland, bundel, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Aus Anlass des 85-jährigen Bestehens des Business and Professional Women (BPW) Germany e.V. schlagen über dreißig Prominente einen Bogen von den Anfängen des BPW bis heute. Dieses Buch ist eine Chronik und ein Wegweiser zu einer gendergerechten Gesellschaft!
social movements
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Trigg, Mary K. > (ed.)
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- Bernstein, Alison R. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, leidinggevende beroepen, mensenrechten, dichters, advocaten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- How did women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges? This volume explores these questions by introducing twelve women, who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements that span the 1940s to the present. The women profiled here are, amongst others: Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem, Dazon Dixon Diallo, CEO Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood), New York City labor organizer Bhairavi Desai, women’s rights leader Charlotte Bunch, feminist poet Audre Lorde, civil rights activists Daisy Bates and Aileen Clarke Hernandez, Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, Nicaraguan revolutionary Mirna Cunningham, and South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sharoni, Simona > [ed]
- Creator
- Welland, Julia > [ed]
- Creator
- Steiner, Linda > [ed]
- Creator
- Pedersen, Jennifer > [ed]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, militaire beroepen, mannelijkheid, seksueel geweld, migratie, meisjes, zorgarbeid, terrorisme, vrouwenvredesbewegingen, VN, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book offers an overview of the relationship between gender and war, exploring the conduct of war, its impact, aftermath, and opposition to it. Offering theoretical insights and empirical research from the First World War to contemporary conflicts around the world, the book underscores the centrality of gender to critical examinations of war.
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