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norms and hierarchies in international society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Towns, Ann E.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, vrouwenkiesrecht, vrouwenbewegingen, internationale organisaties, VN, quota, wetgeving, statistiek
- Description
- Momentous changes in the relation between women and the state have advanced women's status around the globe. Women were barred from public affairs a century ago, yet almost every state now recognizes equal voting rights and exhibits a national policy bureau for the advancement of women. Sex quotas for national legislatures are increasingly common.The author explains these changes by providing a novel account of how norms work in international society. She argues that norms don't just provide standards for states, they rank them, providing comparative judgments which place states in hierarchical social orders. This focus on the link between norms and ranking hierarchies helps to account better for how a new policy, such as equality for women in public life, is spread around the world.
the double bind
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- MacKinnon, Alison
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2010
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijk onderwijs, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwenbewegingen, Verenigde Staten, Australië, jaren vijftig, jaren zestig, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who challenged the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands and children. Could they do both? They might be seen as a privileged group and led the way for a multitude in the years ahead. They were quietly making the revolution that was to come. Sylvia Plath's letters tell of her delighted sense of life opening before her as a 'college girl'. Her poetry, however, tells of anguish, of reaching for distant goals. Drawing on interviews, reunion books, letters, biographical and autobiographical writing from both American and Australian women, this cultural history argues that the choices that faced educated women in that time led to the revolution of the late 1960s and 70s.
the untold story of Cornelia Sorabji, reformer, lawyer and champion of women's rights in India
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sorabji, Richard
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- V IND 9 SOR 2010 - B
- Description
- Cornelia Sorabji was a truly ambitious and remarkable woman. She was intellectually daring and physically courageous As India’s first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views , for example, in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine Mayo. Cornelia Sorabji resists easy classification, either as a feminist or as an imperialist. An Indian whose loyalty to the British Raj never wavered. A passionate advocate of women’s rights whose own career was nearly compromised through her inappropriate relationship with a married man. An independent and free-thinking intellectual who depended for work on patronage from an élite circle. Cornelia Sorabji's long and fulfilling life was anything but simple. How did she reconcile these apparent contradictions? How did she succeed in opening doors to aspects of Indian and British life which remain closed to so many, even today -- and where did she run into difficulties?
forging the women's liberation movement, 1953-1970
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Giardina, Carol
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 1H 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, bevrijdingsbeweging, tweede feministische golf, Verenigde Staten, historisch, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author argues against the prevalent belief that the women's movement grew out of frustrations over the male chauvinism experienced by women in the Black Freedom Movement and the New Left. Instead, she contends, it was the ideas, resources, and skills that women gained in these movements that were the new and necessary catalysts for forging the women’s movement in the 1960s. Special focus is on the movements in Florida. The study takes notice of the leadership of African American women in the movement.
Marokko, de snelle modernisering van een Arabisch land
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beekmans, Kees
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- NO 1N 2010
- Thesaurus
- Marokko, dagelijks leven, islam, moslima's, heilige teksten, familierecht, gelijke behandeling, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, media, democratie, sociale klasse, theater, onderwijs, vrouwenbewegingen
- Description
- De auteur laat zien hoe het veranderingsproces - modernisering, het verwestersen - in Marokko zich voltrekt door de lezer kennis te laten maken met onder anderen een groepje 'ramadanvreters' die de vrijheid opeisen níét te vasten, met moslima's die strijden voor gelijke rechten, ook in het dagelijks leven, met journalisten die weigeren concessies te doen aan hun ideaal van persvrijheid, en met homoseksuelen die in het openbaar hun 'coming out' beleven. Aan bod komen ook de modernisering van de familiewet: 'bijna-gelijke' rechten voor vrouwen, en 'Seks en de moderne vrouw.
the return of sexism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walter, Natasha
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1N 2010
- Thesaurus
- seksisme, vrouwbeelden, pornografie, seksualiteit, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwenbewegingen
- Description
- Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time women are encouraged to believe that the inequality all around us is born of biological differences rather than social factors.
1792 to the present
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stansell, Christine
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 2010
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, historisch, emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This description of the history of feminist movements primarily concerns the United States. It focuses on four themes: the relations between different feminist generations, the changing structures of male government in the family, the uses of the category woman, and feminism across the political spectrum from left to right. Contains also portraits of well-known and unknown feminists, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Toni Morrison.
women's rights and the American political traditions
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Davis, Sue
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, politieke filosofie, vrouwenkiesrecht, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely constrained women’s choices and excluded them from public life. .In this book the author argues that Cady Stanton’s work reflects the rich tapestry of American political culture in the second half of the nineteenth century and that she deserves recognition as a major figure in the history of political ideas. Davis reveals the way that Cady Stanton’s work drew from different political traditions ranging from liberalism, republicanism, inegalitarian ascriptivism, and radicalism. Cady Stanton’s arguments for women’s rights combined approaches that in contemporary feminist theory are perceived to involve conflicting strategies and visions. Her ideas had a major impact on the development of the varieties of feminism in the twentieth century.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ptacek, James > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, vrouwenbewegingen, daders, slachtoffers, macht, inheemse volkeren, jeugd, seksueel geweld, verkrachtingen, bundel
- Description
- This book examines justice practices for victims that are being used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These informal, dialogue-based practices, referred to as 'restorative justice,' seek to decrease the role of the state in responding to crime, and increase the involvement of communities in meeting the needs of victims and offenders. Restorative justice is most commonly used to address youth crimes and is generally not recommended or disallowed for cases of rape, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse. Nevertheless, restorative practices are beginning to be used to address violent crime. This book considers both the dangers and potential benefits of using restorative justice in response to these crimes.
15 years after the Beijing conference on women - 15 years after the peacetrain: balance and outlooks
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Heilberger, Irmgard > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lochbihler, Barbara > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 62 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, seksueel geweld, etniciteit, migratie, vredesbeweging, WILPF, ngo's, vrouwenbewegingen, mensenrechten, Roma- en Sintivrouwen, armoede, VN, wereldvrouwenconferenties, EU
- Description
- 15 years after Beijing World Conference on Women international politicians, activists and scientists take stock: What`s about the decisions made in this meeting, which in that moment had been the biggest reunion of women worldwide? Why does poverty keep staying a female issue? Why today is expended more money than ever for armament, meanwhile the resources for gender justice are short of cash? The authors from Russia, India, Australia, South Africa, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Turkey and Kosovo also are writing about the situation of ethnic minorities, migrants, the feminist movement, sexual violence in war times and last not least about the Peace Train, which brought in the year 1995 more than 2000 women to Beijng