Gender studies: women and girls Books
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Equal under the Sky Georgia OKeeffe and
Book SynopsisProvides the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources, Linda Grasso shows how and why feminism and O'Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular culture and scholarship.Trade ReviewIn this engaging and provocative study, Linda M. Grasso positions Georgia O'Keeffe's identity and art making, her lived experiences and social/political allegiances, within the larger historical context of contested feminist politics in twentieth-century America. Combining a deeply researched discussion of the complexities of feminist movements in the US with biographical information drawn from an impressive array of primary sources, Grasso opens new possibilities for understanding and evaluating O'Keeffe's continuing but conflicted relationship with varied aspects of American feminist experience."" - Helen Langa, author of Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York""Offers a fresh look at Georgia O'Keeffe and the multiple ways that feminism shaped her art, artistic identity, and career. Drawing from rich primary sources, including fan letters to O'Keeffe and media coverage of the artist, Linda M. Grasso demythologizes O'Keeffe's self-representation as a gender-transcendent great American modernist and gives us a picture of O'Keeffe's art as political and intricately connected to the feminist movements that shaped modernism and twentieth-century American culture."" - Donna Cassidy, author of Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
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Jewish Publication Society The Rebbes Daughter Memoir of a Hasidic
Book SynopsisMalkah Shapiro grew up in Poland, the daughter of a noted Hasidic master. This title tells her story. It offers a glimpse of the world of the Hasidic Jew in pre-World War I Eastern Europe.
£26.59
Jewish Publication Society The Meneket Rivkah A Manual of Wisdom and Piety
Book SynopsisThe first-known Yiddish book to be written by a woman, Meneket Rivkah (Rivkah's Nurse) reveals a great deal about 16th-century Jewish women's lives and religious practices. It includes Rivkah bat Meir's sermons, her interpretations of the Bible, and other religious instructions on various topics to guide women in their familial relationships.
£40.50
Seagull Books London Ltd End of Equality
Book SynopsisAmong liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality - in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopped - and in some cases even reversed. This title deals with gender equality.
£19.00
Seagull Books London Ltd It All Tastes of Farewell Diaries 19641970
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Following last year’s I Have No Regrets (translated by Berlin’s Lucy Jones), these books bring to life a highly talented and unconventional author, a woman determined to live life to its fullest despite the constrictions of her time. Now is a fine moment to (re)discover Brigitte Reimann. . . . [She] is a brilliant observer of social milieus, a ruthless self-analyst and often strikingly humorous." * Exberliner *Table of ContentsN
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Seagull Books London Ltd Blind Spot
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Myriam Tadessé’s memoir combines formal innovation with a candid look back on her life and the harrowing experiences she’s had with discrimination in her chosen field—and in French society as a whole. Blind Spot feels like a distillation of its author’s life, and a powerful testament to her day-to-day reality." * Words Without Borders *"With damning acuity, Blind Spot exposes the cracks in the rose-tinted promise of French égalité, and reveals the darker underside of a country that, for all its Belle reputation, remains in thrall to the racial fixations of its colonial past." * European Literature Network *Table of Contents1. Representation – Métis in the Eyes of the Other2. At Home Where?3. The Blind Spot4. The Starting Point5. Echo Chamber6. The Way to the Self
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Seagull Books London Ltd Jewish Portraits Indian Frames Womens Narratives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Silliman’s social and cultural history is a great way to celebrate both a community and a city with a rich and cosmopolitan heritage... Minority histories are critical to the story of India, and that is one reason why the book is important." * The Hindu *Table of Contentsviii Acknowledgements 1 Preface Narratives of Diaspora 11 Introduction Indian and Colonial Frames 25 Farha Crossing Borders, Maintaining Boundaries 57 Mary Coming Home to the Mount of Olives 99 Flower Meeting India at the Midnight Hour 139 Jael Indian Portrait, Jewish Frame 165 Conclusion Dwelling in Travelling 189 References 195 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Research Handbook on Successful
Book SynopsisThis informative Handbook examines successful women small business owners in both developed and emergent countries around the globe and, in particular, focuses on women entrepreneur success stories.Trade ReviewThis title is a welcome addition to the study of women entrepreneurs and small-business owners, a field that has received little scholarly attention. Given the growth of women-owned businesses around the world, it is a timely publication for scholars and students of international business and entrepreneurship. Policymakers interested in women's small-business ownership, as well as potential or actual women business owners, should also read this book.' --Melissa Guy, Feminist Collections'This collection on successful women entrepreneurs is timely. Entrepreneurship and small business creation and management are vital to tackle the current worldwide economic recession. Various stakeholders - policy-makers, academics, budding entrepreneurs - will find this book of interest. A number of country-level initiatives that serve to support women s entrepreneurship are offered that can work almost anywhere. The focus on successful women entrepreneurs is valuable in showing that women can do it and how they achieved their successes. Readers will find the women's voices reported here to be inspirational.' --Ronald J. Burke, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson 2. Australia Glenice Wood 3. Brazil Andrea E. Smith- Hunter 4. Canada Karen D. Hughes 5. China Jonathan M. Scott, Javed Hussain, Richard T. Harrison and Cindy Millman 6. Denmark Suna Løwe Nielsen, Kim Klyver and Majbritt Rostgaard Evald 7. Fiji Gurmeet Singh, Raghuvar Dutt Pathak and Rafia Naz 8. India Tanuja Agarwala 9. Lebanon Dima Jamali and Yusuf Sidani 10. New Zealand Marianne Tremaine and Kate Lewis 11. Pakistan Jawad Syed 12. Portugal Christina Reis 13. Russia Anna Shuvalova 14. South Africa Babita Mathur-Helm 15. Turkey Mine Karataş-Özkan, Gözde İnal and Mustafa F. Özbilgin 16. United Arab Emirates Nnamdi O. Madichie 17. United Kingdom Susan Marlow and Maura McAdam 18. United States of America Mary C. Mattis and Leslie Levin Index
£38.95
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women as Public Moralists in Britain From the
Book SynopsisAn examination of how women's writings shaped public opinion and morality from the Victorians to the mid-twentieth century.In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna Jameson, Hannah Lawrance, Margaret Oliphant, Marian Evans ("George Eliot"), Eliza Lynn Linton, Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf, providing a detailed and compelling account of how their writing on history, literature and visual art changed contemporaries' understanding of the lessons to be drawn from each field at the same time as they contested and redefined contemporary understandings of masculinity and femininity. It recovers these moralists' understanding of themselves as part of a tradition of women of letters stretching from eighteenth-century bluestockings to their own time, and the growing consensus across the political range of periodicals that women's intellectual potential was equal to men's, and not determined by their sex. Benjamin Dabby is an independent historian.Trade ReviewThis is a subtle and penetrating book that rests on deep erudition and careful thought..As a model for an intellectual history of women's thought it has many virtues. * JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN CULTURE *[A]n absorbing exposition of the contributions of women to extant and emerging print media and public discourse in Britain in the long nineteenth century. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A subtle and penetrating book that rests on deep erudition and careful thought. * JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN CULTURE *Useful reading, not only for those with a particular interest in the specific women he writes about, or public moralists more generally, but also for anyone researching the history of women's rights. * BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIAN STUDIES *[A]n important, interesting, deeply intelligent contribution to the field. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Dabby's text firmly places women in the center of public debates about morality in Britain . . . [He] does an excellent job of creating the corpus of female moralists in Britain at the turn of the century. * INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN HISTORY *An engaging and well-written book...Benjamin Dabby's scholarship both alters and enriches our understanding of the writers he examines. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *An altogether splendid piece of work. * VICTORIAN WEB *Table of ContentsIntroduction Anna Jameson and the use of picturesque history Hannah Lawrance and the claims of women's history Margaret Oliphant and the lessons of eighteenth-century history Anna Jameson, cultural authority and public moralism Beautiful and useful arts in Hannah Lawrance's cultural criticism Marian Evans's cultural criticism in the context of women's public moralism Eliza Lynn Linton and feminism at the turn of the century Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and women's rights at the turn of the century Virginia Woolf's common reader and her social criticism The contexts of conclusions Bibliography
£85.50
John Libbey & Co Good Girls and Wicked Witches
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The
Book SynopsisThese translations from the French bring two of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin's novels back to life: The Memoirs of the Count of Comminge (1735), presented as a much-needed new translation, and The Misfortunes of Love (1747), appearing here for the first time in English. Published more than half a century after Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, they belonged less to Tencin's time than to the tradition of the feminine historical novel inspired by Lafayette. Beautifully written in the spare but powerful prose characteristic of French classicism and widely read both in Tencin's lifetime and beyond, the novels were forgotten in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the work of Abbé Prévost and Pierre de Marivaux, they were important contributions to the early sentimental novel. They also anticipated, surprisingly, the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe which appeared later in the century.Trade Review"Over the last several decades we have discovered, in the novels of Jane Austen, a new continent of feminine fiction that is reshaping our understanding of her time. These early nineteenth-century novels would probably not exist were it not for the creations of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin and others like her from the reign of Louis XV. De Tencin personally experienced the constraints society imposed on all women who dared to affirm their desire or their will. Barred from the political sphere, she at least gained a new type of freedom in her love life, in the direction of her salon, and in her fictional inventions. Jonathan Walsh’s project deserves applause for making available in English these narratives intimately linked to the clarity of classical French, but which can be expressed in other languages." -- Michel Delon, Paris IV, SorbonneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiiiForeword by Michel Delon 1Introduction 7Note on the Translation 27Memoirs of the Count of Comminge 29The Misfortunes of Love 63Bibliography 141
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Anna Trapnels Report and Plea or A Narrative of
Book SynopsisIn 1654, Anna Trapnel a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary fromLondon fell into a trance during which she prophesied passionately and at length againstOliver Cromwell and hisgovernment. The prophecies attracted widespread public attention,and resulted in an invitation to travel to Cornwall. Her Report and Plea, republished herefor the first time, is a lively and engagingfirsthand account of the visit, which concluded inher arrest, a court hearing, and imprisonment. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part impassioneddefense of her beliefs and actions, the Reportand Plea offers vivid and fascinatinginsight into the life and times of an early modern woman claiming her place at the center ofthe tumultuous political events of mid-seventeenth-century England.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun
Book SynopsisWhen María Vela y Cueto (15611617) declared that God had personally ordered herto take only the Eucharist as food and to restore primitive dress and public penance in heraristocratic convent, theentire religious community, according to her confessor, rose upin wrath. Yet, when Vela died, her peers joined with the populace to declare her a saint.In her autobiography and personal letters, Velaspeaks candidly of the obstacles, perils,and rewards of re-negotiating piety in a convent where devotion to God was no longerexpressed through rigorous asceticism. Vela's experience, told in herown words, revealsher shrewd understanding of the persuasive power of a woman's body.Trade ReviewMaría Vela y Cueto was a controversial figure in Counter-Reformation Spain. Some of her contemporaries regarded the visions, voices, and strange maladies she received as signs of divine favor; others suspected her of fraud or even heresy. After her death, her account of her life and spiritual experiences was lost to posterity until the twentieth century. This volume allows English-readers to encounter the sometimes infuriating, always fascinating, María Vela in her own words. Susan Laningham’s insightful introduction and notes, based on years of persistent scholarship, helpfully locate Vela in historical and historiographical context. Jane Tar’s careful and sensitive translation renders the Spanish nun’s writing accessible to a modern audience. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of religion, gender, and the body in post-Tridentine Catholic culture. Jodi Bilinkoff Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"María Vela y Cueto was a controversial figure in Counter-Reformation Spain. Some of her contemporaries regarded the visions, voices, and strange maladies she received as signs of divine favor; others suspected her of fraud or even heresy. After her death, her account of her life and spiritual experiences was lost to posterity until the twentieth century. This volume allows English-readers to encounter the sometimes infuriating, always fascinating, María Vela in her own words. Susan Laningham’s insightful introduction and notes, based on years of persistent scholarship, helpfully locate Vela in historical and historiographical context. Jane Tar’s careful and sensitive translation renders the Spanish nun’s writing accessible to a modern audience. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of religion, gender, and the body in post-Tridentine Catholic culture." -- Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at GreensboroTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Note on Translation 49Vida of María Vela y Cueto 53Letters of María Vela y Cueto 140Appendix I: Chronology of the Life of María Vela y Cueto 167Bibliography 171Index 183
£28.00
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Race and Romance Coloring the Past
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Debating the ObviousChapter 2: So Like Her FatherChapter 3: Settling an Isle, or an Englishman’s ColorChapter 4: Seeing What You WantChapter 5: Looking and SeeingChapter 6: “Fictions of the Pose”: Act I, Scene 2EpilogueWorks Cited
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The University of Tennessee Press Votes for Women The Woman Suffrage Movement in
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Cornell University Press Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A mosaic of American labor history . . . moving . . . powerful."—New York Times Book Review"A fascinating collection of oral histories. . . . Byerly has done a beautiful job of editing these interviews for sense and clarity without sacrificing an impression of natural speech."—Booklist"This book provides both scholars and general readers with an educational, intimate, and powerful record of the experiences of these working-class women."—Publishers Weekly
£22.49
Cornell University Press Delphine
Book SynopsisGermaine de Stau00ebl''s first major novel, Delphine, published in 1802, is a profound commentary on the status of women during a critical period of French political history. Delphine''s eighteenth-century conventional form as an epistolary novel masks its unconventional questioning of accepted values and norms. From the start, the Napoleonic government understood that Delphine was more than just a tale of tragic love. Though Stau00ebl disclaimed any intention of writing a political novel, the subversive aspects of a book dedicated to The France of Silence were not lost on Bonaparte, who prompty exiled the author from Paris. Perhaps most unacceptable to Napoleon was Stau00ebl''s assertion of the rights of the individual, particularly those of women. The novel is especially important for its presentation of the plight of women at the end of the eighteenth century. This translation of Delphine is based on the authoritative critical French edition prepared by Trade Review"A new and admirable translation."—New York Review of Books "This remarkable translation is highly recommended." -Choice "This excellent translation... reads elegantly." -Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Translator's Note Preface by Germaine de Sta\u00ebl Delphine Explanatory Notes Selected Bibliography
£81.00
Cornell University Press Vessels of Meaning
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Cornell University Press Literary Liaisons
Book SynopsisThis work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction.Trade Review"Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and women's literature."—Holly Laird, University of TulsaTable of ContentsTable of Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction—"Books Not of the Imagination" 1. The Many Faces of June—Ana\u00efs Nin's Appropriation of Feminine Writing 2. Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca West's Sunflower 3. Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz—Household Plagiarism and Other Crimes of the Heart 4. Accomodation in Radclyffe Hall's The Forge 5. The Writer Self in H.D.'s Auto/biographical Fiction Afterword—Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration Notes Works Cited Index
£31.50
Cornell University Press Delphine
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A new and admirable translation."—New York Review of Books "This remarkable translation is highly recommended." -Choice "This excellent translation... reads elegantly." -Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Translator's Note Preface by Germaine de Sta\u00ebl Delphine Explanatory Notes Selected Bibliography
£24.69
Cornell University Press Five Sisters
Book SynopsisViolent movements opposing existing political orders erupted throughout nineteenth-century Europe, but nowhere was this revolutionary impulse made more dramatically visible than in Russia. This title presents English translations of the memoirs of five Russia's female revolutionaries.
£17.99
MP-TAM Texas A&M University Mistress of Manifest Destiny A Biography of Jane
Book SynopsisA biography of a highly unconventional woman. Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was often at the centre of a controversy, whether it was as Aaron Burr's mistress, behind enemy lines in the Mexican War, filibustering for Cuba or Nicaragua, or urging free blacks to emigrate to the Dominican Republic.
£23.96
Temple University Press,U.S. Women Politics And Empowerment
Book SynopsisFocuses on working-class women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds employed in a variety of jobs. This work documents the story of women learning about the sources of their powerlessness and mobilizing to increase their power.Trade Review"Women and the Politics of Empowerment is filled with pictures of women whose lives the masculinist ideology of our disciplines has said are not worthy of our interest. Bookman, Morgen, and their colleagues awaken all kinds of ideas about where to go from here." --Women & Politics "Drawing together an excellent compilation of case studies of community and workplace organizing, Bookman and Morgen redefine the political arena and process. They focus on the statuses of working-class and low-income women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, thereby giving attention to women who have been largely ignored as actors in the political arena... These rich and varied case materials are useful for the scholar-researcher, the activist, and for the teacher in women's studies, social work, public policy, education, and public health." --Contemporary Sociology "Don't let the title...scare you... The book is devoted to bridging the gap between theory and practice, between feminism and working-class women. And it succeeds, through fourteen widely disparate, yet complementary essays about working-class women, Black, Latina and white, struggling on the job and in their communities for social change." --New Directions for WomenTable of ContentsRethinking Women and Politics: An Introductory Essay Sandra Morgen and Ann Bookman Part I: Expanding and Redefining the Political Terrain 1. "Making Your Job Good Yourself": Domestic Service and the Construction of Personal Dignity Bonnie Thornton Dill 2. Building in Many Places: Multiple Commitments and Ideologies in Black Women's Community Work Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 3. Gender and Grassroots Leadership Karen Brodkin Sacks Part II: Gender and the Shaping of Women's Political Consciousness 4. "It's the Whole Power of the City Against Us!": The Development of Political Consciousness in a Women's Health Care Coalition Sandra Morgen 5. Women Workers and Collective Action: A Case Study from the Insurance Industry Cynthia B. Costello 6. The Edison School Struggle: The Reshaping of Working-Class Education and Women's Consciousness Wendy Luttrell Part III: Reverberations among the Spheres: Family, Workplace, and Community Networks 7. Unionization in an Electronics Factory: The Interplay of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class Ann Bookman 8. Urban Politics in the Higher Education of Black Women: A Case Study Andree Nicola-McLaughlin and Zala Chandler 9. The Politics of Race and Gender: Organizing Chicana Cannery Workers in Northern California Patricia Zavella Part IV: Conditions, Catalysts, and Constraints: Political Economy and Grassroots Activism 10. Women Unions, and "Participative Management": Organizing in the Sunbelt Louise Lamphere and Guillermo J. Grenier 11. Working-Class Women, Social Protest, and Changing Ideologies Ida Susser 12. Vending on the Streets: City Policy, Gentrification, and Public Patriarchy Roberta M. Spalter-Roth Part V: Grassroots Organizing and Political Theory: Toward A Synthesis 13. Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Some Implications for a Democratic Polity Martha A. Ackelsberg 14. "Carry It On": Continuing the Discussion and the Struggle Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen The Contributors
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin 10 Women of Mystery
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDorothy Sayers / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- Josephine Tey / Nancy Ellen Talbur -- Ngaio Marsh / Earl F. Bargainnier -- P.D. James / Nancy C. Joyner -- Ruth Rendell / Jane S. Bakerman -- Anna Katharine Green / Barrie Hayne -- Mary Roberts Rinehart / Jan Cohn -- Margaret Millar / John M. Reilly -- Emma Lath / Jeanne F. Bedell -- Amanda Cross / Steven F. Carter.
£11.35
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Women Times Three Writers Detectives Readers
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Nancy Drew Company
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Nineteenth Century Women at the Movies Adapting Womens Fiction to Film
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£45.00
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin This Giving Birth Pregnancy and Childbirth in
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that underlines the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in American Women's writing. Covering three centuries of prose and poetry, it traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they transformed themselves.
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East European Monographs Women the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar
Book SynopsisExamines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild following World War II by offering support to families and encouraging women to enter the work force. This book also scrutinizes a society that proclaimed sexual equality, but was unable to achieve these goals because of the failure of the state to provide the structures necessary for equality.Trade ReviewA concise overview... useful to students in Russian history and comparative women's studies. -- Beatrice Farnsworth The Russian Review Bucher's book will be of great interest to scholars of family and gender history. -- Deborah A. Field Slavic Review
£999.99
Carnegie-Mellon University Press Witches Vanish
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Implicating the System Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women
Book SynopsisIndigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their over incarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected. This book explores how judges navigate these issues in sentencing by examining related discourses in selected judgments from a review of 175 decisions.Trade ReviewElspeth Kaiser-Derrick's work is an important read in light of the needs of truth and reconciliation. Her exploration of judicial discourses in the sentencing of Indigenous women reveal the multiple systemic failures of Canada's justice system. What judge's say and write is important because it reflects and refracts the inequalities and injustices that are embedded in our collective social order. Their words are demonstrative of the dire need for dramatic changes in Canada's justice system. The book is a must read for all persons concerned with justice,criminal law and human rights.Table of Contents Introduction: Listening to What the Criminal Justcice System Hears Ch 1. Pathways through Feminist Theories: Listening to What the Criminal Justice System Hears Ch 2. Judicial Engagement with the Victimization-Criminalization Continuum Ch 3. From the Victimization Overlap to Judicial Discourses about “Healing” through Imprisonment Conclusion: Listening to Victimization Histories
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MP-CSP Canadian Scholars Women and Genocide Gendered Experiences of Violence Survival and Resistance
Book SynopsisIlluminating the unique experiences of women both during and after genocide, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee's edited collection is a vital addition to genocide scholarship. The contributors revisit genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Armenia in 1915 to Gujarat in 2002, examining the roles of women as victims, witnesses, survivors, and rescuers.Trade ReviewCovering an unusually broad range of genocides around the world, this volume assembles highly original, empirically rich, and methodologically thoughtful research on the suffering and the agency of women during and after events of mass violence in France, Romania, Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Kosovo, India, and Bangladesh in the 20th century. This book is a must-read for students of women’s history and genocides, and it may serve as a model for further explorations into the gendered experience of violence, terror, and war. - Thomas Kühne, Strassler Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University""This powerful compendium makes the never-told and forgotten stories of women who survived or perished in twentieth century and twenty-first century genocides unforgettable. It makes a strong contribution to understanding how genocides are gendered and why women’s voices and lives matter in the study of and resistance to genocides."" - Anne Sisson Runyan, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of CincinnatiTable of Contents Introduction, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee Chapter 1: Women of the Armenian Genocide: From Eyewitness Accounts to Literary Echoes, Sona Haroutyunian Chapter 2: Romani Women and the Holocaust: Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Romanian-Controlled Transnistria, Michelle Kelso Chapter 3: The Gender Dimension of the Holocaust in France, Carol Mann Chapter 4: Silencing the Women: Violence through Rape in the 1971 War of Liberation, Farah Ishtiyaque Chapter 5: What Is Remembered? Gendered Silence, Sexual Violence, and the Khmer Rouge Atrocity, Theresa de Langis Chapter 6: Genocide in Central America: Testimonies of Survivors in Guatemala, Martha C. Galvan-Mandujano Chapter 7: Survival and Rescue: Women during the Rwandan Genocide, Sara E. Brown Chapter 8: Breaking the Protracted Silence about Genocidal Rape in Kosova, Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi Chapter 9: ""We Want Justice!"" Women and the Gujarat Genocide, Dolores Chew Conclusion, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee About the Contributors
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MP-CSP Canadian Scholars Feminist Food Studies Intersectional
Book SynopsisThis expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with a feminist intersectional perspective, addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits, and perspectives.
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MP-CSP Canadian Scholars Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny Womens
Book SynopsisExplores what it means to exist in a body that is constantly on display and subjected to public scrutiny. Victoria Kannen examines the interplay of many ways our bodies express identity, such as gender, race, sexuality, disability, body modification, and age, and how public scrutiny of those expressions can impact our public and private selves.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Inspiring Awe, Feeling Odd Chapter 2: Well-Meaning Strangers: Identities, Stares, and Hair Body Story: Nana Body Story: Rae Response: Nana and Rae Chapter 3: Our Bodies as Private and Public (Sexualized) Spaces Body Story: Kali Body Story: Alice Response: Kali and Alice Chapter 4: Underestimated and Overdetermined: Shame, Tokenism, Exoticism, and Fierce Resistance Body Story: Viola Body Story: Gioia Response: Viola and Gioia Chapter 5: Excessive Bodies: Modified and Un/Natural Freaks Body Story: Quinn Body Story: Victoria Response: Quinn and Victoria Chapter 6: Bodies and Their Stories Appendix Glossary References
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Pan Chao Foremost Woman Scholar of China
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Ohio University Press Taking Root Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin
Book SynopsisIn Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe.Trade ReviewA very significant addition to the fields of Judaic Studies and Women's Studies...this book makes a unique contribution to literary scholars interested in the Jewish presence in Latin America and in the literature of displacement in general. * College of the Holy Cross *
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Ohio University Press Negotiating Power and Privilege Career Igbo
Book SynopsisEven with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment.PhilominaTrade Review“The intellectual success of this study is not that it yields generalizations about the role of education, neatly packaged and ready for uncritical international application to African women or Third World women at large. Rather, this study generates widely applicable questions and identifies issues that are likely to shape the direction of research on women's education and employment for years to come.”
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Ohio University Press Women in the Shadows Gender Puppets and the
Book SynopsisWayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader.Trade Review“Goodlander presents an intimate, detailed account of her studies to become a dalang, contextualizing her experiences with those of the few Balinese women dalangs. She contends that this incursion must ultimately be perceived within the gendered power systems of Balinese culture. Summing up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“[Women in the Shadows] is an exceptional and very personal work filled with rich insights on ritual process, wayang narratives, puppet characters, and Balinese culture in general. Goodlander has produced a short, though substantial, work that is unique in approach, interpretation, and content, enhanced by her own immersion experience.” * Journal of Global South Studies *“The question of what impact women performing the wayang kulit has on gender dynamics in Balinese society is satisfyingly answered by the thoughtfully considered and richly informed analysis that permeates this book…[addressing] performance innovations that seemingly disrupt centuries of tradition yet equally gratify the desire for novelty— and, in doing so, much is revealed about the nature of transformation, balance, gender, and culture in Bali.” * Theatre Survey *“This groundbreaking study explores the unusual position of a handful of women dalang (puppeteers) in Bali, including Goodlander herself…Professor Goodlander’s knowledge, experience, and caring for her subject matter comes through on every page.” * Puppetry International *“Jennifer Goodlander’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Balinese wayang kulit. It provides readers with valuable insights into the remarkable experience of one foreign woman who trained and was consecrated to perform the wayang kulit and expecially of the controversy which continues to surround the practice of Balinese women as dalang.” * Archipel *“Jennifer Goodlander offers a detail-rich, evocative, and insightful account of her practical studies of Balinese wayang kulit, situating her own training in relation to the small group of Balinese women who have performed as puppeteers over the last four decades.”
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Ohio University Press Women in the Shadows Gender Puppets and the
Book SynopsisWayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader.Trade Review“Goodlander presents an intimate, detailed account of her studies to become a dalang, contextualizing her experiences with those of the few Balinese women dalangs. She contends that this incursion must ultimately be perceived within the gendered power systems of Balinese culture. Summing up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“[Women in the Shadows] is an exceptional and very personal work filled with rich insights on ritual process, wayang narratives, puppet characters, and Balinese culture in general. Goodlander has produced a short, though substantial, work that is unique in approach, interpretation, and content, enhanced by her own immersion experience.” * Journal of Global South Studies *“The question of what impact women performing the wayang kulit has on gender dynamics in Balinese society is satisfyingly answered by the thoughtfully considered and richly informed analysis that permeates this book…[addressing] performance innovations that seemingly disrupt centuries of tradition yet equally gratify the desire for novelty— and, in doing so, much is revealed about the nature of transformation, balance, gender, and culture in Bali.” * Theatre Survey *“This groundbreaking study explores the unusual position of a handful of women dalang (puppeteers) in Bali, including Goodlander herself…Professor Goodlander’s knowledge, experience, and caring for her subject matter comes through on every page.” * Puppetry International *“Jennifer Goodlander’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Balinese wayang kulit. It provides readers with valuable insights into the remarkable experience of one foreign woman who trained and was consecrated to perform the wayang kulit and expecially of the controversy which continues to surround the practice of Balinese women as dalang.” * Archipel *“Jennifer Goodlander offers a detail-rich, evocative, and insightful account of her practical studies of Balinese wayang kulit, situating her own training in relation to the small group of Balinese women who have performed as puppeteers over the last four decades.”
£23.39
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Kagero Diary
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Classical Press of Wales Aphrodites Tortoise The Veiled Woman of Ancient
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£67.50
Pushcart Press Ghosting A Widows Voyage Out
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MerwinAsia Women in Japanese Cinema Alternative Perspectives
Book SynopsisBy studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time periods in an exegesis of their story versus orthodox history. Fifteen films are studied to bring this theme into focus. The five chapters represent categories the public used to code Japanese women in the pre-feminist age.
£27.96
DePaul University Art Museum Out of Easy Reach
Book SynopsisCountering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition Out of Easy Reach presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Latina diasporas. The exhibition proposes myriad ways that artists are employing abstraction as a tool to explore histories both personal and universal, with focuses on mapping, migration, archives, landscape, vernacular culture, language, and the body. This catalogwhich accompanies an exhibition opening in April 2018 at the DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Stony Island Arts Bankincludes full-color plates of the works on view; commissioned essays by exhibition curator Allison Glenn, and Cameron Shaw, executive director and founding editor of Pelican Bomb; and short-form contributions about each artist featured in the exhibition written by invited scholars, curators, writers, and artists.
£19.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This extraordinary collection of research and practices needs to be used as a manual for action. Years ago, Kofi Annan stated: “The future of the world depends on women.” The current world of aggression and oppression is one consequence of denying women access to leadership. There is no more time to consider women’s role as life-affirming leaders – we must enact and embody the clarity and wisdom contained in this new edition.’ -- Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley, author of ten books from Leadership and the New Science to Who Do We Choose To Be?, US‘Susan Madsen has done it again. With her editing of this second edition of the Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership she has provided both theoreticians and practitioners with updates as well as additional information and insights on a wide range of related subjects. Each of the many chapters is carefully researched and well written, with some addressing subjects previously largely ignored, such as how race and gender identity pertain to the matter at hand. Of course, the question of why, after decades of efforts to rectify the imbalance, are still so few women at the top, and in many countries and cultures none or nearly so, continues to linger. This volume though goes a long way toward providing some nimble and nuanced answers. It’s a resource worthy of its excellent predecessor.’ -- Barbara Kellerman, Fellow, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxii Sally Helgesen Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership xxiv Susan R. Madsen PART I SETTING THE STAGE 1 The current status of women leaders worldwide 2 Elizabeth Goryunova and Susan R. Madsen 2 A brief landscape of research on women and leadership 23 Sherylle J. Tan and Lisa DeFrank-Cole 3 Reflections on glass: second-wave feminist theorizing in a third-wave feminist age? 33 Savita Kumra PART II ADVANCING WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP THEORY 4 Creativity in theorizing for women and leadership: a multi-paradigm perspective 48 Julia Storberg-Walker 5 Social psychological approaches to women and leadership theory 65 Crystal L. Hoyt and Stefanie Simon 6 Sociological approaches to women and leadership theory: toward an intersectional approach 84 Rana Abulbasal, Alicia Ingersoll, and Christy Glass 7 Communication approaches to gender and leadership theory 99 Carolyn M. Cunningham and Chrys Egan 8 Using organizational and management science theories to understand women and leadership 111 Chantal van Esch, Pooja Khatija, Diana Bilimoria, and Karlygash Assylkhan 9 No woman left behind: critical feminist leadership development to build gender consciousness and transform organizations 130 Laura L. Bierema, Eunbi Sim, and Weixin He PART III INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATORS TO LEAD 10 Women’s leadership aspirations 152 Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Lynne E. Devnew, Ann M. Berghout Austin, Mary Shapiro, and Beth Donchai 11 Women’s leadership ambition in early careers 171 Ruth Sealy, Charlotte Forsblad, and Nina Worts 12 Women’s leadership identity: exploring person and context in theory 187 Wendy Fox-Kirk and Chrys Egan 13 The role of purpose and calling in women’s leadership experiences 202 Karen A. Longman and Debbie Lamm Bray 14 Women, leadership, and power 220 Katharina Pick 15 Using neuroscience methods to explore gender differences in leadership 241 Amy L. Bartels and Suzanne J. Peterson 16 The connection between success, choice, and leadership for women 259 Sarah Leberman and Jane Hurst PART IV GENDER-BASED LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS 17 A new framework for gender-based leadership barriers 276 Amy Diehl and Leanne M. Dzubinski 18 Organizational processes and systems that affect women in leadership 292 Aï Ito and Michelle Bligh 19 Individual stresses and strains in the ascent to leadership: gender, work, and family 312 Amy E. Smith and Deneen M. Hatmaker 20 Gender stereotypes and unconscious bias 327 Deborah L. Rhode 21 Theorizing women leaders’ negative relations with other women 340 Sharon Mavin and Gina Grandy 22 The effect of media on women and leadership 357 Carole Elliott and Valerie Stead PART V DEVELOPING WOMEN LEADERS 23 Advancing women through developmental relationships 374 Wendy M. Murphy, Kerry Roberts Gibson, and Kathy E. Kram 24 Gender differences in developmental experiences 392 Cathleen Clerkin, Diane M. Bergeron, and Meena S. Wilson 25 Women-only leadership programs: a deeper look 410 Mary Ellen Kassotakis 26 Supporting women’s career development 426 Deborah A. O’Neil, Margaret M. Hopkins, and Margaret E. Brooks 27 How men can be better allies for developing women leaders 439 April Townsend, Susan R. Madsen, and Robbyn T. Scribner 28 Future strategies for developing women as leaders 455 Faith Wambura Ngunjiri and Rita A. Gardiner Afterword 468 Susan R. Madsen Index 471
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management exemplifies the multiplicity of gender and management research and provides effective guidance for putting methods into practice.Trade Review‘This Handbook fills a much needed gap in methods and methodologies for those engaged in gender and intersectionality research in management studies. The contents cover traditional and novel approaches for those interested in giving voice to equity deserving groups who are overlooked, invisible and marginalized in management studies. It is a must have resource for all gender scholars.’ -- Gina Grandy, University of Regina, Canada‘Professors Stead, Elliott and Mavin have brought together numerous leaders in the field of gender in management to create an excellent understanding of the interdisciplinary and complex nature in conducting gender and management research. This welcomed and innovative Handbook delivers a range of methods that capture and provide critical insights to help our comprehension of gendered behaviours and practices. An extremely valuable addition to the field of gender and management.’ -- Adelina Broadbridge, University of Stirling, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management 1 Valerie Stead, Carole Elliott and Sharon Mavin PART I AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS 1 A scholarly journey to autoethnography: a way to understand, survive and resist 10 Juanita Johnson-Bailey 2 Autoethnography in qualitative studies of gender and management 25 Saoirse O’Shea 3 Autoethnography in qualitative studies of gender and organization: a focus on women successors in family businesses 38 Allan Discua Cruz, Eleanor Hamilton and Sarah L. Jack PART II PRACTICAL APPROACHES 4 Focus group use in gender research aimed at program innovation 57 Maylon Hanold 5 Using oral history and archival research to advance gender studies in management and organisational studies 71 Hannah Dean and Lorna Stevenson 6 Translating gender policies into practice: mapping ruling relations through institutional ethnography 86 Rita A. Gardiner, Jennifer Chisholm and Hayley Finn 7 Participant observation in gender and management research 101 Farooq Mughal, Valerie Stead and Caroline Gatrell 8 Gendered encounters in a postfeminist context: researcher identity work in interviews with men and women leaders in the City of London 115 Patricia Lewis 9 Being ‘native’: insider research in qualitative studies of gender and management 130 Jouharah M. Abalkhail 10 Data with a (feminist) purpose: quantitative methods in the context of gender, diversity and management 145 Anne Laure Humbert and Elisabeth Anna Guenther 11 Topic modelling: a method for analysing corporate gender diversity statements 161 Aaron Page and Ruth Sealy PART III CRITICAL APPROACHES 12 Exposing interpellation with dystopian fiction: a critical discourse analysis technique to disrupt hegemonic masculinity 182 Mark Gatto and Jamie L. Callahan 13 Media semiotics: analysing the myth of the corporate superwoman 202 Anita Biressi 14 Intersectional reflexivity: using intersectional reflexivity as a means to strengthen critical autoethnography 214 Mayra Ruiz Castro PART IV METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS 15 Visual research as a method of inquiry for gender and organizations 232 Alexia Panayiotou 16 Understanding the underrepresentation of women in union leadership roles: the contribution of a ‘career’ methodology 249 Cécile Guillaume and Sophie Pochic 17 Phenomenology and autoethnography as potential methodologies for exploring masculinity in organizations, communities and society 265 Joshua C. Collins and Jeremy W. Bohonos 18 Concept as method: ethnography in a posthumanist world 281 Lara Pecis 19 Using the Listening Guide to analyse stories of female entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: a diffractive methodology 295 Natasha S. Mauthner and Sophie Alkhaled Index 312
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook of Womenâs Entrepreneurship and
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This rich and inspiring book provides a collection of chapters that offer a very timely and critical reminder of the value created through women’s entrepreneurship. Under the guidance of Yousafzai, Henry, Boddington, Sheikh and Fayolle, the reader is encouraged to really reflect on what influences and constrains the growth of women’s entrepreneurship. At the same time, we are introduced to real insight into how women’s entrepreneurship plays out and is practiced in a variety of different and very interesting contexts. I am confident that this Research Handbook will be valued by many communities across the world and will provide the foundation for furthering real knowledge and understanding. I applaud the authors and editors for their exceptional and inspiring work.’ -- Sarah Jack, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden'The holistic perspective on value creation through women’s entrepreneurship that this comprehensive book spotlights, has been long overdue. Perceptive multi-level organization of the collection brings fine-grained insights on how women’s entrepreneurial activity can create value at four different levels – the individual, business, household and societal levels. A must-read for challenging underperformance notions of women entrepreneurs and enlightened evidence-based policymaking.' -- Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New Zealand‘The Research Handbook of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Value Creation is a long overdue and much welcome addition to our growing body of work on women’s entrepreneurship. The chapters included in this book provide a global perspective on the ways in which women-owned firms contribute value above and beyond commonly cited financial measures. Together, authors representing a diverse array of geographic regions show us how women entrepreneurs create not only economic value but also social value for their countries, communities, families, and for other women through their leadership and example.’ -- Susan Coleman, University of Hartford, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Value Creation 1 Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, Monique Boddington, Shandana Sheikh and Alain Fayolle PART I VALUE CREATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL 1 Women in Ethiopia: creating value through entrepreneurship 24 Atsede Tesfaye Hailemariam, Konjit Hailu Gudeta, Brigitte Kroon and Marloes van Engen 2 Evaluating the contribution of entrepreneurship training, perceived emancipation and value creation for rural female entrepreneurs in Uganda 37 Sylvia K. Gavigan, Thomas M. Cooney and Klavs Ciprikis 3 Creating value in the margins: rethinking value creation, empowerment and women’s entrepreneurship in South Africa’s street food sector 52 Jiska de Groot, Nthabiseng Mohlakoana, Abigail Knox, Debbie Sparks and Hans Bressers 4 Emancipation and value share: the individual-level value creation by women entrepreneurs in India 68 Renuka Vyas PART II VALUE CREATION AT THE BUSINESS LEVEL 5 Collaborative value creation in a highly adverse context: experiences of Hazara women entrepreneurs in Balochistan 83 Khizran Zehra, Leona Achtenhagen, Sadia Arshad, and Nadia Arshad 6 Cultivating business value beyond economic measures: narratives from Sweden 103 Annie Roos 7 Value creation in conflict zones: evidence from Afghan and Palestinian women entrepreneurs 118 Doaa Althalathini 8 Creating blended value: Sri Lankan women micro-entrepreneurs and their ventures 132 Nadeera Ranabahu and Mary Barrett 9 The latent entrepreneurs: inequality and enterprising women in the lucky country 147 Zara Lasater, Vinita Godinho, Robyn Eversole and Naomi Birdthistle 10 Women entrepreneurs creating value in informal public transport enterprises in Kenya 164 Anne Kamau and Winnie V. Mitullah PART III VALUE CREATION AT THE HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY LEVEL 11 Becoming an entrepreneur? Early identity formation among migrant women nascent entrepreneurs 178 Sanaa Talha and Gry Agnete Alsos 12 Migrant women entrepreneurs and value creation: narratives of household and community contribution in the British ethnic economy 194 Milka Kwiatek and Maria Villares-Varela 13 Iranian women entrepreneurs: creating household value through entrepreneurship 211 Vahid Makizadeh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Siavash Aein Jamshid and Marzieh Nasiri PART IV VALUE CREATION AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL 14 Saudi Arabian women entrepreneurs: agents of change and value creators 235 Hayfaa Tlaiss 15 Exploring societal value creation through women’s informal entrepreneurial activities in Nepal – a narrative approach 246 Mirela Xheneti and Shova Thapa Karki 16 Women entrepreneurs as agents of change in the Americas: redefining the bottom line 261 Ruta Aidis 17 Women entrepreneurs creating value in a democratic South Africa – emerging beyond the informal sector 278 Ethné Swartz, Caren Scheepers and Frances Amatucci 18 Indian transgender women creating social value through social entrepreneurship 296 Roshni Narendran 19 Generation Y females in Ireland: an insight into this new entrepreneurial potential for value creation 309 Angela Hamouda, Kate Johnston and Rebecca Nevins 20 Radically overperforming women entrepreneurs in Mexico City: Alimentos Para Todos as a high impact social innovation case 327 Hans Lundberg 21 Post conflict development and value creation through women’s entrepreneurship: evidence from Swat, Pakistan 345 Musarrat Jabeen and Shandana Sheikh Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Quitting Academia
£85.00
