Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisSusan Dobscha and the authors in this Handbook provide a primer and resource for scholars and practitioners keen to develop or enhance their understanding of how gender permeates marketing decisions, consumer experiences, public policy initiatives, and market practices.This Handbook's main objective is to provide a roadmap through the complicated terrain of gender as it pertains to marketing and consumer behavior. The author also highlights that the study of gender is not restricted to certain theories, methods, or approaches. The unifying conclusion is that the study of gender is an important topic that has not received the attention it deserves within the marketing discipline; and attention to gender is crucial now more than ever.This book will give marketing scholars the guidance they need to incorporate the topic of gender into their research by highlighting the current conversations that are taking place in the field of marketing, and more importantly by illuminating the gap in which more scholarship is necessary to increase our understanding of gender complexities. Contributors include: J. Brace-Govan, J. Coffin, C. Coleman, S. Dobscha, J. Drenten, S. Dunnett, C.A. Eichert, S. Ferguson, L. Gurrieri, R.L. Harrison, W. Hein, G.H. Knudsen, J. Littlefield, P. Maclaran, A.-I. Nolke, S. O'Donohoe, J. Ostberg, N.J. Pendarvis, A.S. Rome, M. Sanghvi, K.C. Sredl, L. Steinfield, L. Stevens, L. Walther, M. Zawisza, L.T. ZayerTrade Review'The Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing is a timely volume that effectively updates and extends conversations on feminism, gender, gendered marketspaces, and the practices of consumers therein. Appropriately, this volume challenges some taken for granted understandings that may be hampering our understanding of gender(s), and some taboos that can prevent us from discussing critical issues that matter to people of varied genders. I encourage scholars in this arena to take the time to read this volume cover to cover.' --Eileen M. Fischer, York University, Canada'Being a woman who has now lived through several versions of feminism, gender studies and marketing, I am very happy to see that scholars continue to re-think and expand their notions of how gender affects marketing - and life generally. This has been a long, difficult and at times also fun and gratifying road to be on. The eclectic mix of topics and perspectives in the present volume help us get a better grasp of the ''now'' of gender.' --Elizabeth C. Hirschman, The University of Virginia's College at Wise, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Susan Dobscha 1. A Psychological Perspective on Gendered Advertising: Content, Effectiveness, and Effects Magdalena Zawisza 2. Video Gaming As A Gendered Pursuit Jenna Drenten, Robert L. Harrison and Nicholas J. Pendarvis 3. Gender East and West: Transnational Gender Theory and Global Marketing Research Katherine C. Sredl 4. Gender and Sexed Bodies: Embodiment, Corporeality, Physical Mastery and the Gaze Jan Brace-Govan and Shelagh Ferguson 5. The hashtaggable body: Negotiating gender performance in social media Lauren Gurrieri and Jenna Drenten 6. Patriarchal Myths Debunked: Applying a Dialectic of Extremes to Women’s Erotic Consumption Luciana Walther 7. Critical consumers – discourses of women, sexuality, and objectification Gry Hongsmark Knudsen 8. The TCR Perspective of Gender: Moving from Critical Theory to an Activism-Praxis Orientation Laurel Steinfield, Jon Littlefield, Wendy Hein, Catherine Coleman and Linda Tuncay Zayer 9. No More Mister Mom: Masculinity And Consumption Jacob Ostberg 10. Thinking Through Feminist Theorising: Poststructuralist Feminism, Ecofeminism, and Intersectionality Pauline Maclaran and Lorna Stevens 11. Rethinking Feminist Waves Alexandra S. Rome, Stephanie O’Donohoe and Susan Dunnett 12. Toward (and Beyond) LGBTQ+ Studies in Marketing and Consumer Research Jack Coffin, Christian A. Eichert and Ana-Isabel Nolke 13. Gender and Intersectionality in Political Marketing Minita Sanghvi Index

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Book SynopsisWomen's entrepreneurship is vital for economic and social development, yet female entrepreneurs worldwide are consistently found to have weaker sales and employment growth, fewer jobs, and lower profitability. This book was written to address this reality and focuses on the high-growth potential of women entrepreneurs. The scholars in this book conducted qualitative as well as quantitative research in contexts around the world, including Eswatini (Swaziland), Australia, China, Slovenia, Peru, and one global study of 43 countries. Chapters are organized according to three key themes: the practice of building networks, programs and the support environment, and policies and regulations. Topics addressed within these themes include the interconnected and mutually reinforcing features of a fruitful entrepreneurial culture, including financial and human capital advancement and readiness, new opportunities for expansion and an assortment of institutional and infrastructural provisions for innovation and business growth. High-growth Women's Entrepreneurship will appeal to public and private sector managers, policy makers and politicians who want to promote a culture and ecosystem that supports women's growth-oriented business potential. Educators and program designers who want to help women grow their businesses, and scholars who want to explore further research will find the information invaluable. Contributors include: N. Birdthistle, C.J. Boudreaux, Z. Brixiová, C.G. Brush, A. Bullough, D. Cetindamar, M. Córdova, L.F. Edelman, R. Eversole, B. Freser, V. Godinho, D. Hechavarría, F. Huamán, E. James, T. Kangoye, T. Lammers, Y. Li, S. Muhammad, B. Nikolaev, A. Pearce, K. Sirec, E. Sullivan, P. Tominc, M. Walo, J. WuTrade Review'Despite the surge of interest in women's entrepreneurship around the globe, very little attention and support is currently directed towards high-potential women's entrepreneurship. These talented entrepreneurs face many of the constraints that women micropreneurs and small business owners struggle with, but they are running business that demand even greater access to the resources required for scale, in business circles and industries where women are severely underrepresented. This edited volume provides important research evidence to guide researchers, policymakers, program leaders and investors on how best to spend dollars in support of women starting and growing high potential ventures. A must-read! --Amanda B. Elam, Babson College, US'This latest book from the Diana Project network frames a long delayed, much needed, and deliberatively provocative discussion about the relationship between growth-oriented women entrepreneurs and public policy and regulatory frameworks, building networks, and the entrepreneurship support environment. The primary question is whether they help or hurt. The editors and contributors represent all the continents (except Antarctica!) to bring a truly global and thoughtful consideration to what we know, and what we still need to learn.' --Patricia Greene, Professor Emeritus, Babson College, US'High-growth Women's Entrepreneurship represents a valuable addition to the emerging body of research on women's entrepreneurship public policy. This book provides a global perspective on programs, policies and practices by incorporating chapters representing the experience of growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in both developed and developing economies. Each chapter provides valuable ''lessons learned'' that can be shared across geographic boundaries. These, in turn, form the basis for policy recommendations designed to foster innovation and growth among women entrepreneurs. This book is a true gem, and merits multiple reads to fully capture the insights offered by its editors and contributors.' --Susan Coleman, University of Hartford, USTable of ContentsContents 1 Introduction: programs, policies and practices: fostering high-growth women’s entrepreneurship 1 Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarría, Candida G. Brush and Linda F. Edelman 2 Networks, start-up capital and women’s entrepreneurial performance in Africa: evidence from Eswatini 13 Zuzana Brixiová and Thierry Kangoye 3 Absence of opportunities can enhance women’s high-growth entrepreneurship: empirical evidence from Peru 32 Miguel Córdova and Fátima Huamán 4 Towards a typology of supports for enterprising women: a comparison of rural and urban Australian regions 52 Robyn Eversole, Naomi Birdthistle, Megerssa Walo and Vinita Godinho 5 STEM education and women entrepreneurs in technology enterprises: explorations from Australia 78 Dilek Cetindamar, Elayn James, Thorsten Lammers, Alicia Pearce and Elizabeth Sullivan 6 Exploring gender differences in entrepreneurship: how the regulatory environment mitigates differences in early-stage growth aspirations 109 Christopher J. Boudreaux and Boris Nikolaev 7 Gender gap in perceived financing opportunities for high-growth enterprises 133 Blaž Frešer, Karin Širec and Polona Tominc vi High-growth women’s entrepreneurship 8 Women’s awareness of financial policy and their debt financing activities: evidence from China 160 Juan Wu, Yaokuang Li and Shakeel Muhammad 9 Where do we go from here? Summary of findings 183 Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarría, Candida G. Brush and Linda F. Edelman Index 195

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking Research Handbook, leading international researchers analyse how negotiators' gender shapes their behaviour and outcomes at the bargaining table, in both work and non-work contexts. World-class experts from the field of negotiation present cutting-edge research on gender and negotiation, highlighting controversies and generating new questions for consideration. The Research Handbook offers helpful insights to negotiators and forges a path for future research. The first section highlights how gender shapes negotiation within close relationships and identifies informal social rules for how women and men are expected to negotiate, exploring the socialization patterns and historical contexts that produced these norms and the implications for women at the bargaining table. Chapters discuss how underlying negotiation processes such as trust, emotion, communication and non-verbal behaviour are shaped by gender, as well as considering a number of pragmatic solutions to the obstacles women face as self-advocates. Offering insights for both practitioners and researchers, this Research Handbook will be invaluable to teachers and, also, female professionals who want to understand how to get better outcomes from negotiation. It will also be required reading for HR professionals who wish to understand how and why organizational policies regarding negotiation can level the playing field. Contributors include: E.T. Amanatullah, J.B. Bear, L. Berg, J.E. Bochantin, H.R. Bowles, T.H. Burns, A. Dickson, A.L. Elias, K.R. Gallagher, B.A. Gazdag, M.P. Haselhuhn, H. Jazaieri, J.A. Kennedy, S. Kesebir, D. Kolb, L.J. Kray, C.T. Kulik, S.Y. Lee, M. Liu, B.A. Livingston, S. Mor, M. Olekalns, J. Overbeck, M. Pillutla, T.L. Pittinsky, J. Qiu, L. Ramic-Mesihovic, I.Y. Ren, S.W. Ryu, A. Sabanovic, Z. Semnani-Azad, W. Shan, R. Sinha, A.F. Stuhlmacher, N.R. Toosi, C. Trombini, J. Wareham, L. ZervosTrade Review'This book makes a fabulous contribution to our understanding of the role of gender in negotiations, highlighting the contextual and situational forces that influence the negotiation process. A wonderful exploration of the burgeoning research in this field and a call to action for future inquiry.' --Linda C. Babcock, Carnegie Mellon University, US'This Research Handbook gathers research by top scholars across disciplines to provide a depth of insight that is unparalleled, shedding much needed light on the complex role of gender in personal and professional negotiations. By concurrently focusing on the social context, interpersonal dynamics, and individual characteristics of negotiators, the Research Handbook provides an agenda for future research and suggestions for what people and institutions can do to level the playing field. It will be the go-to resource for years to come.' --Laurie R. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University, US'Negotiation is an act of balancing between cooperating to create value and competing to claim it. In many negotiation contexts, being a female negotiator adds a second dimension to balance. If a female negotiator internalizes gender stereotypes, she may be less able to engage in the agentic competitive behaviors necessary to protect her interests and claim value. If she rejects gender stereotypes, she may face backlash. This Handbook reviews the research that identifies when and how female negotiators can adjust these balances in their favor.' --Jeanne Brett, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Linda Putnam Introduction 1. Spheres of Influence: Unpacking Gender Differences in Negotiation Mara Olekalns and Jessica A. Kennedy Friends, Families, Work: Negotiating in Long-Term Relationships 2. Keeping Our Friends Close: Friendship Maintenance Through the Roles of Gender and Negotiation Kaitlyn R. Gallagher, Tatem H. Burns, and Alice F. Stuhlmacher 3. Gender and Spousal Negotiation Beth Livingston and Seung Whan Ryu 4. Gender, Work-Family Negotiations, and Caregiving Ambition Julia Bear and Tod Pittinsky 5. “Superhero” Rhetoric versus Empathic Communication: How Male and Female First Responders Negotiate Work-Life Jaime Bochantin and Ashleigh Dickson Bounded Negotiations: Gendered Norms as Constraints 6. Deception in Negotiations: The Unique Role of Gender Hooria Jazaieri and Laura J. Kray 7. Same-Sex Peer Norms: Implications for Gender Differences in Negotiation Selin Kesebir, Sun Young Lee, Judy Qiu, and Madan Pillutla 8. Role Salience and Context: The Example pf Negotiation Dyad Gender Composition Alice F. Stuhlmacher and Lauren S. Zervos 9. Gender and Bargaining Power in Historical Context Allison L. Elias Behind-the-Scenes: Gender Differences in Underlying Processes 10. Gender and Trust Michael P. Haselhun 11. Anger and Anxiety in Masculine-Stereotypic and Male-Dominated (MSMD) Negotiating Contexts: Affect and the Study of Gender in Negotiation Chiara Trombini, Logan A. Berg, and Hannah Riley Bowles 12. The Unspoken Language of Power: Interpersonal Dynamics of Nonverbal Behaviour in Mixed-Gender Negotiations Justin D. Wareham and Jennifer R. Overbeck 13. Gender, Communication, and Negotiation Meina Liu and Isabelle Yi Ren 14. How Culture and Race Shape Gender Dynamics in Negotiation Negin R. Toosi, Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Wen Shan, Shira Mor, and Emily T. Amanatullah Stronger Self-Advocates: Persisting Despite Disruptions and Setbacks 15. Negotiating Political Agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina Deborah M. Kolb, Leyla Ramic-Mesihovic, and Anida Sabanovic 16. Women-Focused Negotiation Training: A Gendered Solution to a Gendered Problem Carol T. Kulik, Ruchi Sinha, and Mara Olekalns 17. What Does ‘Bouncing Back’ Mean? Defining the Role of Resilience in Gender and Negotiations Brooke A. Gazdag Conclusion 18. Shifting Directions in Gender and Negotiation: From Understanding Women toward Understanding their Counterparts Jessica A. Kennedy and Mara Olekalns Index

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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. Through a range of international perspectives, contributors present an essential resource of diverse research methods, including illustrative examples from corporate, public and entrepreneurial sectors. Chapters offer clear guidance, considering opportunities and challenges of differing approaches to research and exploring their ethical implications in practice. Outlining autoethnographical, practical, critical and methodological approaches to research, the Handbook illustrates a broad base from which to build a research project in gender and management. This cutting-edge Handbook is crucial reading for scholars of gender and management, highlighting useful methods and practices for accessing key scholarly insights. It will also benefit graduate students in need of a guided entry into the field of gender and management.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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Book SynopsisThis is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political activism and dynamic social networks, these women reimagined modern life and fought for the chance to realize their visions. Taking the reader on a journey through the city's salons and bohemian hangouts, Radicals and Rogues celebrates the tastemakers, collectors, curators, artists and poets at the forefront of the early avant-garde scene. Focusing on the women trailblazers at the centre of artistic innovation, Lottie Whalen offers a lively new history of remarkable women in early twentieth-century New York City.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Hands, Hearts and Needles Chapter 2: Learning to Sew Chapter 3: A Material World Chapter 4: In the Gently Closed Box Chapter 5: Fruits of Our Work Chapter 6: The Business of the Needle Chapter 7: The Alternative Stitch [EdAQ: VC and I think this title works best, OK to leave?] Chapter 8: Into the Fray References Select Bibliography Associations and Websites Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThis book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy. It deals with land issues within the interface of theory and practice. Part 3 covers Applications and experiences: techniques, strategies, tools, methods, and case studies. Part 4 focuses on Land governance, gender, and tenure innovations. Case studies discussed include China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Korea, etc. Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries. This book: · Includes theoretical or empirical studies on land governance and gender from a diverse group of countries. · Provides the basis for a new land administration theory to be set against conventional land administration approaches. · Offers, in an accessible manner, a range of new tools for design and evaluation of land management interventions. The book will be valuable for students and researchers in land governance, urban and rural planning, international development,natural resource management, agriculture, community development, and gender studies. It is also useful for land practitioners, including those working within international organizations.Table of Contents1: Introducing Land Governance and Gender in the Context of Land Tenure 1: Concepts, Debates and Perspectives on the Governance and Gender Aspects of Land 2: Gender, Structural Inequality and Just Governance 3: Land Tenure and the Nuanced Gender Debates in Sub-Saharan Africa: Realities and Illusions 4: Land Governance and Gender in Support of the Global Agenda 2030 5: Governing African Land in an Era of Instability 2: Tenure–Gender Dimensions in Land Management, Land Administration and Land Policy 6: Advancing Women’s Position by Recognizing and Strengthening Customary Land Rights: Lessons from Community- Based Land Interventions in Mozambique 7: Women’s Insights on Bargaining for Land in Customary Tenure Systems: Land Access as an Individual and Collective Issue 8: Gender-Sensitivity in Land Management: Trajectory of Housing, Agriculture and Land Ownership in South Korea 9: Analysing Non-Legal Barriers to Land Ownership by Women 3: Applications and Experiences: Techniques, Strategies, Tools, Methods and Case Studies 10: The Evolvement of Land Consolidation in Rural China from the Perspective of Governing Tension between Construction Land Expansion and Farmland Protection 11: Discourse on Women and Land Tenure in Ghana: Does a Matrilineal Land Tenure System Make a Difference for Women? 12: The Gender Dimensions of Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia 1995–2020 13: The Paradox of Islamic Land Governance and Gender Equality 4: Land Governance, Gender and Tenure Innovations 14: Transforming Legal Status of Customary Land Rights: What this Means for Women and Men in Rural Africa 15: Women and Land Inheritance under Legal Pluralism in Lesotho 16: Tenure-Responsive Zoning Regulations for Better Gender Equality in Land Management in Kigali City, Rwanda 17: New Hope and Future for Rural Areas under COVID-19 Circumstances? Rural Development, Pandemic Liveability and Reverse Migration 18: Using Urban Literacy to Strengthen Land Governance and Women’s Empowerment in Peri-Urban Communities of San Andrés Cholula, Mexico 19: Land Governance and Gender for a Tenure-Responsive Future

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Book SynopsisWomen, Leisure and Tourism provides a comprehensive discussion of women, leisure, and tourism through the lens of leisure production and consumption, both by women and for women. Specifically, this text includes a multi-cultural perspective to highlight the unique attributes leisure brings to women, the role of women in leisure entrepreneurship, and the creation of supportive, inclusive environments to enhance female well-being through the examination of these activities in often overlooked populations. The diversity of women's leisure and tourism practices is best perceived through the links between various leisure practices (e.g., sport, outdoor recreation, travel and tourism, learning, crafts, events, family leisure), as well as an understanding of leisure production across cultures and life stages. These chapters bring to the forefront many of the challenges inherent in providing leisure and tourism that support the diverse needs of women, as well as a look at female innovation that is also often overlooked in leisure research. The book includes examples of both applied and conceptual chapters from global perspectives in academic studies. This book: - Is written by multi-disciplinary authors. - Includes case studies, research methodologies and pedagogical approaches to highlight the complexity of gender studies and provide a diverse toolkit to support further research on women and gender. - Presents applied and conceptual chapters from global perspectives in academic studies. This book is valuable for academics and graduate students of tourism, leisure and gender studies.Table of Contents1: Introduction: women as producers and consumers of leisure 2: An examination of female exceptionalism in early leisure placemaking activities 3: Masculinity and moral licensing in the locker room: a critical analysis of culture, gender, and leisure 4: Sport for women in later life 5: History and identity: female vendors at a Renaissance Festival 6: By her own hand: Creativity, crafts and commerce 7: Creating a culture of consent for event tourism 8: Older women and leisure 9: Non-formal learning participation as leisure for Syrian refugee women in Turkey 10: Running away or running toward? Pilgrimage as a source of women’s leisure 11: Gamer women – 'tourists' or 'citizens' 12: A netnographic study on Chinese women’s guimi travel experiences 13: Queens on the go: an Africana woman scholar and traveller experience 14: Women and leisure in the Italian context 15: Understanding the intersectionality of urban Indian women’s leisure experience 16: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Moving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book traces new narratives to bring original insights into the migration of thousands of Irish women in the twentieth century. Despite having a strong tendency to leave Ireland like men, women’s migration to Britain has been less well studied. Yet Irish women could be found in all walks of life in Britain, from the more familiar fields of nursing and domestic service to teaching, factory work and more. This fascinating study also considers the public commentary made about Irish women from the pulpit, press and politicians, who thought the women to be flighty, in need of guidance and prone to moral failures away from home. The repeated coverage of the ‘emigrant girl’ in government memos and journals gave the impression Irish women were leaving for reasons other than employment. Moving Histories argues that the continued focus on Irish unmarried mothers in Britain was based on genuine concerns and a real problem, but such women were not representative. They were, rather, an indictment of the conservative socio-cultural environment of an Ireland that suppressed open discourse of sexuality and forced women to ‘hide their shame’ in institutions at home and abroad.Trade ReviewReviews'A wealth of new material about an under-researched period of Irish women’s history.' Professor Bronwen Walter, Anglia Ruskin University‘The book shows Irish female emigrants to Britain as more empowered than previously depicted; it is well argued with hard facts and statistical evidence. It is important that this book is read outside academia and the feminisation of Irish history cannot alone be the work of feminist historians.’ Sinead McCoole, The Irish Times‘The only dedicated – and most exhaustive – account of Irish women emigrating to the UK.’ Colin Gannon, The Irish World'An important contribution to the history of Irish women emigrants.’ Bernadette Hyland, Morning Star‘[Redmond’s] democratic approach to a variety of sources and her willingness to read with and against the grain reflects her commitment to the centring of women and their experiences. Their centrality is what makes the book so persuasive.’ Senia Pašeta, Irish Historical Studies'Moving Histories is an important contribution to the history of Irish women emigrants in the UK.'lipstick socialist"In a well-researched and stimulating study, Redmond places Irish female migration at the center of the story of Irish emigration to Britain in the first half of the twentieth century and seeks “to demystify the female experience of migration to Britain”. She succeeds admirably in this goal."Michael Silvestri, Journal of British Studies

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the representation of women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of the cinematic representation of female figures in relation to gender issues by interweaving Western feminist and postfeminist critiques with traditional Chinese sociocultural discourse. An in-depth narrative identifies three major representations of women: the female victim, the female perpetrator of violence, and the female professional. Salience to contemporary society shows up in many ways, passive and active, all of which reinforce a sense of male dominance and patriarchal power. Analysis bridges the gap in the field of female representation in Chinese culture/Chinese film studies by systematically examining Chinese crime films as a genre in its own right. The depiction of female victimisation at the hands of men in the selected crime films consolidates the notion of women's vulnerability and inferiority as perceived in Chinese gender discourse. On the other hand, the representation of active female perpetrators of violence, and as professional working women, presents what may be seen as a postfeminist masquerade a cultural strategy that shows an ostensible impression of female empowerment albeit that it reinforces traditional gender hierarchies in the Chinese gender context. While graphic female victimisation is commonly presented, female perpetrators of violence and females in professional roles in crime films are shown to remain under the control of male authority, leading to the conclusion that Chinese crime films are produced in a context of heavy patriarchal power and misogyny.

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Book SynopsisThis study sets out to explain and understand the worldview of students at Female madrasas (FeM) in Pakistan. Beginning as an indigenous informal institute for female education at home, FeM has evolved to country-wide formal theological seminaries that award women graduate degrees in Islamic studies. Since the 1970s, state intervention and social engagement have influenced not only the structure of FeMs but their locations. Attendance is from all socio-economic strata of society. A recent development, especially in urban centers, is the teaching of the state curriculum to enable young students to access mainstream education. Public opinion is divided about the role of FeMs in society. Some believe that FeMs confine women into the domestic realm; others view FeMs as a move forward into modernity, as they educate the least educated sectors of society. The author uses the lens of language and gender to explore why such divergent views exist about FeMs. Specifically, language and vocabulary has served as a powerful factor for restricting women to their traditional roles. Madrasas have a profound effect on Pakistani society at large, as they respond to the immediate socio-political and economic needs of the community. In the last two decades many books were produced about male madrasas in Pakistan. However, one focusing on women's madrasas exclusively was needed, because currently the number of female students enrolled in madrasas is higher than the male students. This unique book is rooted in the authors experience of studying at an FeM. She entered a madrasa with a yearning to be closer to God, to know the book revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, and to learn what he said and did. A constant throughout her studies was the recognition that acquiring knowledge is one of the highest acts of righteousness according to the Prophet Muhammad.

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs’ efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses’ size and formal status.Challenging the underperformance hypothesis associated with women entrepreneurs, chapters present evidence that women do not underperform in their businesses, but that they add value even in constrained environments. This intends to shift the focus of research from questions like ‘what do entrepreneurs do?’ to ‘how do they do it?’, focusing on the unique ways in which each woman entrepreneur creates value, and ‘for whom do they do it?’, looking at the multiple value outcomes women entrepreneurs create and the beneficiaries of that value.With a global perspective on women’s entrepreneurship and their value creation, this Research Handbook will be vital reading for researchers of entrepreneurship, as well as government agencies and policymakers interested in promoting entrepreneurial activity.Trade 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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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking Handbook on Gender and Public Administration brings together leading experts in a rapidly growing field of study to explore the emerging contexts of gender and public administration. Capturing the many facets of this dynamic trend, the book explores gender equity and further examines masculinity, intersectionality and beyond binary conceptions of gender. Chapters written by expert contributors provide an in-depth analysis of the history, theory and context of gender equity alongside the intersection of gender and traditional public administration topics such as budgeting, personnel, organizations, ethics, performance and representative democracy. Furthermore, it investigates gender dynamics in international, governmental, non-profit, policy and academic contexts, highlights the progress made, and identifies the ongoing challenges. This timely Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars in public administration who wish to explore gender and the broader questions of social equity, as well as scholars new to the field of public administration and gender. Following a growing movement to incorporate gender into public administration curriculum, this book will also prove a useful guide for faculty providing these courses.Trade Review‘Shields and Elias have assembled an amazing line up of scholars who demonstrate why gender is central to addressing the big questions of public administration. Covering a diversity of contexts and concepts, this edited volume will be the leading text on the study of gender and public administration for the next generation of scholars. At a time when major public policy challenges continue to have differential impacts along gender lines, this text could not be any more timely. I look forward to the dialogue it will inspire.’ -- Jessica Sowa, University of Delaware, US‘This Handbook is cause for celebration: a distinguished line up of contributors tackling gender in public administration from a rich and timely array of perspectives. Perceptive, stimulating and useful for administrators, scholars and teachers. A welcome resource that will become a classic!’ -- Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University, US‘This Handbook reinforces, continues, and bolsters a critically important conversation in public administration and management – the role of gender representation. Authors in this book critically unpack the notion of gender and its effects on public service and public servants. The work is an excellent addition to our canon and will make an immediate positive difference for current and future scholars and practitioners.’ -- Staci Zavattaro, University of Central Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xvi Roddrick Colvin Acknowledgments xix List of abbreviations xx 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Administration 1 Patricia M. Shields and Nicole M. Elias PART I THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL ROOTS 2 Revisiting Camilla Stivers’s Gender Images in Public Administration 21 Jennifer Alexander and María Verónica Elías 3 The origins of the settlement model of public administration: stories of women pioneers 35 Patricia M. Shields 4 The long road of administrative memory: Jane Addams, Frances Perkins and care-centered administration 53 DeLysa Burnier 5 Emotional labor, gender and public administration 68 Nazife Emel Ganapati, Christa L. Remington and Meredith A. Newman 6 Managing masculinity in public organizations 85 Nuri Heckler 7 Beyond binary treatment of gender in public administration and policy 103 Nicole M. Elias 8 Intersectionality of gender and race in governmental affairs 115 Schnequa Nicole Diggs PART II PILLARS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 9 Gender-responsive budgeting: a global perspective 133 Marilyn Marks Rubin and John R. Bartle 10 Trends in international scholarship on gender and public personnel administration (2008–19) 149 Nandhini Rangarajan and Mark Lottman 11 Gender in administrative ethics: Jane Addams’s feminist pragmatist conception of democracy as social ethics 165 Jennifer Kiefer Fenton 12 Women’s representation in public sector organizations: persistent challenges and potential for change 182 Sebawit G. Bishu 13 Gender and nonprofit administration: past, present and future 195 Michelle D. Evans and Hillary J. Knepper 14 Gender and representative bureaucracy 212 Jennifer Hooker and Mary E. Guy 15 Performance, social equity and gender 230 Samantha June Larson 16 Gender and public service motivation: recognizing gender as a social structure 243 Nicole M. Humphrey PART III CONTEXTS OF GENDER AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 17 Making the case for addressing second-generation gender bias in public administration 258 Helisse Levine, Maria J. D’Agostino and Meghna Sabharwal 18 #MeToo and human resources legislation: history, legal patterns and prospects 268 Sean McCandless 19 “Backwards in high heels”: revisiting gender in Utah state government and administration after 30 years 288 Sharon Mastracci and Nadia Mahallati 20 Women in Texas local government: the road to city manager 302 Ashley Wayman, Samantha Alexander and Patricia M. Shields 21 When gender-neutral rental housing policy becomes gender-inequitable 317 Megan E. Hatch 22 “It is very much a man’s world”: gender representation in agricultural policy and administration 332 Aritree Samanta, Shilpa Viswanath and Mary Anh Quyen Tran 23 Women and military service 349 Lindy Heinecken 24 Gender and public administration scholarship 364 Zoe A. Klobus, Michelle D. Evans and Hillary J. Knepper 25 The leaky pipeline: gender and public administration professional education 383 Beth M. Rauhaus and Isla A. Schuchs Carr 26 Gender and the construction of a positive peace within the 2016 Colombian peace deal 399 Melissa Gómez Hernández 27 Governing for equality: the Ethiopian case 413 Sebawit G. Bishu Index

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Book SynopsisWomen's entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women's entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.As women-entrepreneurs circumvent challenges and obstacles, they also ameliorate the cultural context for future women entrepreneurs. In this book, studies covering 40 countries document how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, and how women's entrepreneurship, in turn, shapes the cultural milieu. The work is organized into three main themes: (1) the socio-cultural context for women's entrepreneurship; (2) women’s entrepreneurship as emancipation from traditional family roles; and (3) government policies and programs and self-determination in women's entrepreneurship. This illuminating and inspiring book offers valuable insights for students of women's entrepreneurship, practicing entrepreneurs, and public policy makers interested in promoting women’s entrepreneurship in different cultural contexts around the world.Trade Review'For the first time, the idea of dynamic interaction between women's entrepreneurship and socio-cultural context is considered from the perspectives of family roles and self-determination across a variety of countries. Not only does this volume highlight how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, but also it explores how women’s entrepreneurship influences cultural context. A well edited and interesting collection of chapters!' -- Candida G. Brush, Babson College, US'My colleagues Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana Manolova and Leon Schjoedt, leading scholars on women entrepreneurship topics, edit this volume that provides rich content about the relevance of the socio-cultural dynamics that shape any kind of entrepreneurial endeavor led by women. With a collection of conceptual and empirical perspectives from cases around the world, this book enhances and brings to life the research agenda for women in entrepreneurship.' -- José Ernesto Amorós, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico'This volume takes an incisive step forward in building a generalizable theory on women's entrepreneurship and culture. It extends growing scholarship on women's entrepreneurship in developed economies, with understanding of the impact of socio-cultural norms on women entrepreneurs in emerging and developing countries and regions including Bangladesh, China, India, Ethiopia, South Africa and the MENA region, as well as provides 20-country comparative analysis. A must-read for anyone including policymakers interested in female entrepreneurship and others with wider interest in entrepreneurship, self-determination and economic development.' -- Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to women’s entrepreneurship and culture: socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and constraint negotiation 1 Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova and Leon Schjoedt PART I THE EFFECTS OF A SOCIETY’S CULTURE ON THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2 Gender, culture and entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 20 Bettina Lynda Bastian, Stephen Hill and Beverly Dawn Metcalfe 3 The unfolding process of women’s entrepreneurship in a patriarchal society: an exploration of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs’ experiences 47 Wee Chan Au, Sabrina Nourin and Pervaiz K. Ahmed 4 The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism on women’s entrepreneurship 68 Pedro Torres and Mário Augusto PART II WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION FROM TRADITIONAL FAMILY ROLES 5 You are well-educated, so why do you want to start a venture? Cultural norms of women’s entrepreneurship in Ethiopia 88 Magdalena Markowska and Tigist Tesfaye Abebe 6 From empowerment to emancipation: women’s entrepreneurship cooking up a stir in South Africa 109 Bridget N. Irene, William K. Murithi, Regina Frank and Bernadette Mandawa-Bray 7 Role of socio-cultural factors in shaping entrepreneurial decision and behavior: an Indian perspective 140 Jasmine Banu, Rupashree Baral, Upasna A. Agarwal and Mansi Rastogi PART III CULTURE AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP 8 Mobilising “she power”: Chinese women entrepreneurs negotiating cultural and neoliberal contexts 174 Dongling Zhang and Nancy C. Jurik 9 Women in copreneurial businesses in the socio-cultural context of Iran 196 Zahra Arasti, Laleh Sadeghi and Maryam Saeedian Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women’s writing. It focuses on menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause whilst also incorporating experiences such as miscarriage and abortion. This study frames its analysis of contemporary women’s writing by looking back to the pioneering work of the second-wave feminists. Second-wave feminist texts were the first to break the silence on key aspects of female experience which had thus far been largely overlooked or considered taboo. Second-wave feminist works have been criticised for applying their ‘universal’ theories to all women, regardless of their ethnicity, socio-economic status, or sexuality. This book argues that contemporary women’s writing has continued the challenge against normative perceptions of the body that was originally launched by the second-wave feminists, whilst also taking a more nuanced, contextual and intersectional approach to corporeal experience. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach of this book is informed not only by critics of the second-wave feminist movement but also by sociological studies which consider how women’s bodily experiences are shaped by socio-cultural context.Trade Review"This is an outstanding book. It builds upon existing scholarship on the representation of women’s bodies and life stages to generate new understandings of an important topic. The theoretical framework is articulated astutely and brought to bear upon literary texts in sensitive and innovative ways. Its cross-cultural comparison adds a richness to its argument. This will be essential reading for researchers in French and Francophone literatures, women’s writing and gender studies." Natalie Edwards, The University of AdelaideTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Problematising a ‘universal’ female bodily experience: The second-wave feminists and their critics2. Violence, Trauma and Medicalisation: The female fertility cycle in women’s writing from France3. Islam, Politics, and Education: Framing the female fertility cycle through an Algerian perspective4. Multiculturalism and the legacy of colonialism: The female fertility cycle in Mauritian women’s writingConclusion

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Book SynopsisMaeve O’Riordan opens the doors of the country house (or the big house as it is often referred to) in Ireland to reveal the lives of women among the Irish ascendancy. Drawing on personal records from twelve different families, the reader is provided with unprecedented insights into the female experience among the privileged landed class at a time of social upheaval in Ireland. Space is given to these women’s voices as they navigated the limited roles available to women at the time. Unmarried women are not excluded and their efforts at forging careers and identities outside the home are also uncovered. Though their names are now forgotten, women like Mabel O’Brien – who was depicted as wife, mother and society woman in her husband Dermod’s painting The Jewel (pictured on the front) – contributed to the public success of their families through their dutiful, private roles. Their marriages forged important social links and their commitment to home duties ensured that the family residence was a centre of prestige. Women of the Country House in Ireland will appeal to anyone interested in the history of women or the ascendancy. It invites you to step into the country houses of Ireland and, for the first time, to get to know the women who lived within their grand drawing rooms before the onset of the First World War and the Irish War of Independence.Trade ReviewReviews ‘O’Riordan’s insightful analysis is a real pleasure to read and no mean feat in a challenging archival context. Women of the Country House in Ireland more than achieves its goal of bringing women’s contributions into the foreground of our histories of elite life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland and opens the door for future explorations of gender and power in this stratum of Irish society.’ Leonie Hannah, Irish Historical Studies'Meticulously researched... written in a clear, approachable way and analyzing previously unexamined archival materials, the study will benefit both specialists and general readers interested in the lives of Victorian women and the Irish ascendancy.'Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga, Victorian Studies‘Women of the Country House in Ireland should be of interest not only to historians but also to those in other disciplines who study social inequality, and not just gender inequality. The complexity, contradictions and constraints of the multiple statuses that these women held is masterfully revealed in this book.’ Samuel Clark, History 'Women of the Country House in Ireland does much more than fill a significant gap in the existing historiography of the landed class in Ireland... It will be a welcome addition to the history of women in Ireland, of rural landed classes, of the elite classes Ireland and Britain.' Keelin Burke, Journal of Family HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. House and estate2. Courtship: for love and money3. Matrimony and married life4. Producing heirs5. Family and friendship6. Expressing taste and talent7. Independence and life outside the home8. Paternalism: philanthropy and activismConclusion

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Book SynopsisMuslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France is the first comprehensive study of cinematic representations of first-generation Muslim women from the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) in France. Women of this generation migrated to France during the decades preceding and following the end of French colonial rule, and they are generally – though not always accurately – regarded as belonging to a generation of migrants silenced under the weight of poverty, illiteracy, Islamic tradition, and majority ethnic Islamophobia. Situated at the intersection of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and film studies, this book brings together a diverse corpus of over 60 documentaries, short films, téléfilms (made-for-television films), and feature films released in France between 1979 and 2014, and it devotes one chapter to each kind of film. In examining the ways in which the voices, experiences, and points of view of Maghrebi migrant women in France are represented and communicated through a selection of key films, this study offers new perspectives on Maghrebi migrant women in France. It shows that women of this generation, as they are represented in these films, are far more diverse and often more empowered than has generally been thought. The films examined in this book contribute to larger contemporary debates and discussions relating to immigration, integration, and identity in France.Trade Review'Kealhoffer-Kemp’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in the integration of Muslims in contemporary France—a topic that has again become controversial.' Mary Jean Green, French Review'The strength of this book lies not only in the originality of its topic, but also in the unique way it examines a large corpus of films to show the diversity within the representations of first-generation Muslim Maghrebi women.' Mireille Rebeiz, Irish Journal of French Studies'Muslim Women in French Cinema is well-written, well-documented and provides new insight into the subject.' Professor Patricia Geesey, University of North Florida'This study offers a rich compendium of resources and analyses for scholars working on French film and cultural studies across an array of disciplines.' Greta Bliss, L'Esprit Créateur'You will want to read and purchase this important book not only for its contribution to current discussions about French identity and the composition of the Hexagone, but also for its comprehensive overview of the various cinematic representations of this generation of women.' Michael F. O’Riley, H-France‘Through careful examination of a broad corpus of over sixty films produced between 1978 and 2014, Kealhofer-Kemp traces the figure of the Maghrebi woman migrant across multiple genres, whether as documentary subject or as recurrent fictional character. […] This study offers a rich compendium of resources and analyses for scholars working on French film and cultural studies across an array of disciplines.' Greta Bliss, L’Esprit CréateurReviews 'An excellent read for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at the intersections of film studies, gender studies, and religion, as well as (im)migration studies. The book also provides a detailed list of films under analysis (pp.195-198) that could be used to guide further research on the topic or to choose films to add to the syllabus.' Shreya Parikh, Journal of Religion & FilmTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Maghrebi Migrant Women in France and French Cinema1 The Voices of Maghrebi Women in Documentary Films: Framing Construction and Transparency2 First-Generation Women in Short Films: Crossing Barriers and Communicating Experiences through Objects3 The Voices of Maghrebi Migrant Women in French Téléfilms: Portraying Agency4 Transmitting the Voices of Maghrebi Women through Feature Films: From Verbal to Non-Verbal Forms of CommunicationConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from around the world, this book provides extensive coverage of the academic literature and research on women’s entrepreneurship policy.Featuring contributions from members of the Global Women's Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network, the book explores and critiques contemporary policy instruments while also pointing toward potential policy solutions. Chapters aim to deepen understanding of women’s entrepreneurship policy and raise awareness among policy makers, programme managers and academics of the dangers associated with gender-blind entrepreneurship policies. The book concludes that ‘one size fits all’ policies that ignore the gender dimension do not support women entrepreneurs effectively.Research-based and international in approach, Women's Entrepreneurship Policy will be a useful guide for academics and advanced students in the areas of entrepreneurship, gender and management, diversity and management, and international business. It will also be beneficial for policy makers and those involved in designing and delivering women’s entrepreneurship programmes.Trade Review‘Well thought-out, illustrative and opportune! This outstanding collection of chapters positively influences the future of the women’s entrepreneurship research agenda and outlines new pathways for entrepreneurship policy formation, enrichment and delivery. A must-read for policy makers and scholars around the globe.’ -- Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez, Trevinyo-Rodríguez & Associates, México‘This compelling book is packed with insightful gems for inclusive entrepreneurial policy. The wide geographical coverage of the chapter collection and their varied theoretical lenses – institutional, narrative and feminist – ensures the value of these insights. Essential reading for enlightened evidence-based policy making for the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, that recognizes women’s entrepreneurship within the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.’ -- Anne de Bruin, University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: About Global WEP xviii 1 Introduction to Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy: taking stock and moving forward 1 Colette Henry, Susan Coleman and Kate V. Lewis 2 Exploring the gender gap in women’s entrepreneurship: a narrative policy analysis 14 Patricia G. Greene and Candida Brush 3 Strategies to redress entrepreneurship gender gaps in Canada revisited 40 Barbara J. Orser 4 Entrepreneurship as a losing proposition for women: gendered outcomes of neo-liberal entrepreneurship policy in a Nordic welfare state 77 Helene Ahl, Malin Tillmar, Karin Berglund and Katarina Pettersson 5 Mapping ethnic minority women entrepreneurs’ support initiatives: experiences from the UK 105 Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla 6 Institutional work in Czech and US business assistance programmes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion 125 Nancy C. Jurik, Alena Křížková, Marie Pospíšilová and Gray Cavender 7 Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in Poland and institutional support 164 Ewa Lisowska and Dariusz Leszczyński 8 Beyond COVID-19: women entrepreneurs and e-commerce policy in the Asia-Pacific 194 Patrice Braun, Naomi Birdthistle and Antoinette Flynn 9 Analysis of Ghana’s and South Africa’s women entrepreneurship policies 216 Mavis S. B. Mensah and Evelyn Derera Index 243

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Book SynopsisThe expert contributors to this insightful book explore the latest research on women’s emancipation through entrepreneurship, specifically in relation to families and family businesses. The chapters analyse the role the family plays and how women interact with their families in developing their entrepreneurial projects or taking over the lead of the family business. They examine key themes such as the role of religion, women’s agency, business succession, and identity. To illustrate these areas, the book draws on case studies from a wide variety of contexts, including Syrian women refugee entrepreneurs, Tunisian women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial parents working from home. The book also draws attention to previously underexplored topics in women’s entrepreneurship, such as spousal support. Looking to future research, it calls for a better understanding of what emancipation means for women in different contexts. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship with a particular interest in family business. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for practitioners in this field as well as networks of women entrepreneurs.Trade Review‘This beautifully edited manuscript includes a compilation of the most current scholarship on the complex interweaving among family and business for women entrepreneurs. The authors contribute new scholarship that reexamines the yin and yang of women’s autonomy and control within the business and peacekeeping within the family while teasing out the impact of the family on women’s businesses and women’s influence in family business dealings.’ -- Amanda Bullough, University of Delaware, US‘This latest entry in the series grounded in the Diana Project works extremely well in three main ways: providing a more structured and deeper integrative approach to the intersection of women’s entrepreneurship and family business, including a more diverse set of international contexts, and featuring a broader array of research methodologies.’ -- Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, US‘This dynamic volume merges research in family business with women’s entrepreneurship. It combines work on family firms in developed economies such as Italy and the United States with studies from developing and emerging regions such as Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon. In doing so, it paints a holistic picture of the challenges in women’s and family firms. Clearly, this book is an important read for anyone interested in women in family business.’ -- Linda F. Edelman, Bentley University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts 1 Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Candida G. Brush, Andrea Calabrò and Adnane Maâlaoui PART I WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS IN A PATERNALIST CONTEXT 1 The influence on succession of women’s involvement in the boards of directors of family firms, through the lens of neuroscience 13 Soumaya El Hayek Sfeir 2 Gender equality in family business succession: do religion and sociocultural factors matter? Evidence from Tunisia 39 Hedi Yezza and Didier Chabaud PART II WOMEN’S AUTONOMY AND DISTANCE FROM THE FAMILY 3 Women’s access to debt finance for small businesses in Bangladesh: the role of family members (excluding husbands) 53 Jasmine Jaim 4 The role of spousal support in the emancipation of refugee women entrepreneurs in practice: the case of Syrian women entrepreneurship in Lebanon 77 Rola El Ali and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire 5 The role of the family environment in innovative female entrepreneurship in Latin America: cases from Colombia, Peru, and Argentina 114 Luz Marina Ferro, Nancy Matos and Florence Pinot De Villechenon PART III LEADING A BUSINESS WITHIN A FAMILY OR MAKING UP WITH THE FAMILY WHILE LEADING A BUSINESS: SAME FIGHT? 6 Strategies for overcoming barriers in women’s careers: agency as autonomy and authority-building courage 155 Mona Haug and Gry Osnes 7 Female entrepreneurship in the wine sector: the role of family and identity in Italian small and medium wineries’ strategies 188 Cinzia Colapinto, Vladi Finotto and Christine Mauracher PART IV WOMEN’S PRACTICES TO REALIZE THEMSELVES WHILE ENTREPRENEURING 8 Women’s entrepreneurship practices of context and sustainability 207 Kim Poldner 9 Reconsidering the practices of home-based entrepreneurs: how mum and dad entrepreneurs manage work time 233 Stacy Brecht and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women.Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary world. The book also engages with how policies can support diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices, and identifies directions for future research.Exploring the diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars, educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic. Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity informative and illuminating.Trade Review‘Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice provides an up-to-date state of the art of what we currently know on diversity, and moreover, on gender diversity. By providing results on on-going research, it brings a fresh and valuable overview on how diversity and inclusion occur across contexts, especially across cultures and countries. Besides, the uniqueness and novelty in this book is the consideration of new working practices and new technological breakthroughs such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), and raises the debate on how these changes can foster or reduce inclusion. For sure, this book, based on scientific results, can inspire not only scholars but also practitioners, educators, as well as policy makers, basically anyone who wants to promote an inclusive economy.’ -- Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France‘This edited collection provides research insights into the challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship and innovation. These insights are particularly valuable to our WEgate community, an initiative partly funded by the European Commission, that is focused on supporting women across Europe to develop and grow their businesses. The original research presented in this book chapters can help policy makers, investors and other stakeholders within the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation, to develop and adopt evidence-based interventions to support women engaged in entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Gabriela K. Bogoeska, Foundation for Management and Industrial Research and WEgate Coordinator (https://wegate.eu)‘This book is a timely and valuable addition to contemporary narratives on diversity and inclusion. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, the editors have assembled a robust collection of scholarly contributions that help deconstruct the concept of diversity, revealing it in all its forms. The international contributions highlight the challenges of diversity in a range of contexts - geographical and sectoral - covering issues relating to funding, technology transfer and acquisition, healthcare and science across continents, and drawing attention to innovation in underrepresented forms. Policies, initiatives and ecosystems needed to support diversity within innovation are also discussed. Accordingly, this book will be a valuable tool for policy makers, educators and those involved in supporting the development of innovation within their regions and beyond. The book will enhance understanding - in both theory and practice - of the concept of innovation, and thus, will also appeal to scholars, whether established or new to the field.’ -- Colette Henry, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland and Griffith University, Australia‘This book peels back multiple layers to expose the complexities of gender and diversity in the context of innovation, public policies, gendering innovation, and measures to support equity in and through innovation. Readers are offered a comprehensive digest of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that highlight intersectional influences in both developing and developed economies. The book also captures the practicalities of inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics with the theoretical tensions inherent in identity, femininity and recognition politics, including non-identitarian or post-equity gender theory.From a case-based social innovations in healthcare to cross-cultural comparisons of Artificial Intelligence policies, the authors collectively offer multiple recommendations to help address marginalization within innovation spaces, new technology-based firms, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths). Unified by a focus on gender and subordination, the curated collection of articles is a must-read for entrepreneurship scholars, scientists and policymakers who seek to extend the influence of research and policy to enhance empowerment, equality, equity, and non-discrimination.’ -- Barbara Orser, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Understanding how diversity matters for innovation and entrepreneurship has never been more topical in the context of the digital transformation of our societies. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, and Helen Lawton Smith challenge us into thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship more inclusively. They illuminate how innovation policies and initiatives have largely remained gender blind, and what can be gained from gender diversity in creativity and innovation processes. People reading this book will truly benefit for the wealth of inspirational examples of how to promote gender inclusive innovation, allowing them to put theory into policy and practice.’ -- Anne Laure Humbert, Oxford Brookes University, UK‘This edited volume assembles leading researchers across career stages and geographies to explore current topics in innovation, through a gendered lens. Taken together, the authors investigate a multitude of theoretical lenses, and offer insights for practice and policy.’ -- Siri Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University, US‘An excellent book which I enjoyed reading, with much food for thought and much to learn from. The editors put together a great group of international scholars who contribute novel insights to the complex theme of gender, diversity, and innovation in entrepreneurship research. Contributors discuss the interplay of gender, diversity and innovation in different contexts, examine new technologies and their gendered impact, and highlight implications for policies and practice. Definitely a must-read for all those interested in up-to-date perspectives on gender, diversity and innovation.’ -- Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and University of Siegen, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Dr Emily Nott xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction: promoting inclusive innovation 1 Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla PART I DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 2 Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding 15 James Bort and Azzurra Meoli 3 A gendered multi-level model of STEM entrepreneurship 29 Cecelia Dotzler and M. Gloria González-Morales 4 Increasing women’s representation as founders of university spinout companies: a case for action 46 Heather Griffiths, Simonetta Manfredi, Alexis Still and Charikleia Tzanakou 5 Women entrepreneurs in new technology-based businesses in Sweden: experiences as inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs 63 Besrat Tesfaye and Christina Wainikka 6 Is gender an inhibitor to innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 80 Victoria Tonks and Helen Lawton Smith 7 From gendered social innovation to gendering social innovation and co-production in healthcare settings 96 Silvia Cervia 8 Underrepresented innovators: an assessment of innovation activities in women-led businesses in the UK 110 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Elvis Nyanzu PART II INNOVATION POLICIES, INITIATIVES AND ECOSYSTEMS 9 Beyond Siri and Alexa: gender and AI policy 125 Vidhula Venugopal and Vishal Rituraj 10 Targeting in targeted funds: how inclusion policies and programs can exclude intended beneficiaries 148 Katindi Sivi 11 Making gendered science: a feminist perspective on the epistemology of innovation based on science and technology studies 167 Ilenia Picardi 12 The impact of institutional voids on female innovation in emerging countries 185 Allan Villegas-Mateos and Rosa Morales 13 Informal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptions of female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework 202 Priscilla Otuo, Cynthia Forson, Afua Owusu-Kwarteng and Anthony N-Yelkabong 14 Women’s entrepreneurship in the inclusive innovation ecosystem in Canada 223 Wendy Cukier, Guang Ying Mo and Jodi-Ann Francis PART III CONCLUSION 15 Afterword 240 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton Smith Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging existing research and concepts, this Research Handbook presents cutting-edge insights into diversity and corporate governance. Going beyond the surface of diversity, global expert contributors present diverse chapters offering a wide range of perspectives on the use of theories and methodologies. Integrating multi-disciplinary insights and decades of research and evidence into a historical overview and multilevel framework of diversity and corporate governance, this Research Handbook provides a deep dive into gender, caste and ethnicity. Split into five thematic parts, it provides a full focus on meaning, impact and reflection to provide a much broader look at the topic and illustrates novel theoretical dimensions such as dynamic capabilities and digital expertise. This Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars researching topics including corporate governance, boards of directors and diversity. The breadth of perspectives offered will also be illuminating and informative for global policy makers and business leaders.Trade Review‘In this stimulating volume, Sabina Tasheva and Morten Huse have curated innovative, inclusive, intersectional, and multilevel perspectives on diversity in the corporate boardroom. The volume’s contributing authors are experts in their research areas and their chapters address real-world and contemporary issues and challenges. Taken together, this book is a call to action to deepen and extend our understanding and practice of board diversity.’ -- Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, US‘This definitive work edited by two international authorities on diversity in corporate governance sets out with clarity the complexities of diversity, and the importance of intersectionality in explaining continuing structural inequality in representation on company boards. Providing multi-dimensional explanations, the analysis goes beyond social capital and examines the dynamic capabilities of boards, and how diversity may contribute to these. The role of leadership and team dynamics are clearly articulated with reference to performance on contemporary boards of directors and the expert research provides a deeper and wider understanding of the nature of diversity on boards, with fresh and incisive perspectives.’ -- Thomas Clarke, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia‘This is a timely and interesting book for several reasons. First, board diversity is a growing and important phenomenon, but despite a growing bulk of research, there is still a lot to learn about its drivers and consequences. Second, the editors and the authors are passionate governance scholars who have published several studies on board diversity. For these reasons, I consider this book a useful resource for all scholars that want to better investigate and understand such a complex and relevant topic.’ -- Alessandro Zattoni, LUISS Guido Carli University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Diversity and Corporate Governance 1 Sabina Tasheva and Morten Huse PART I BOARD DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 2 Diversity on corporate boards as a multi-dimensional and multi-level phenomenon: from duality to unity of theoretical and practical perspectives 8 Sabina Tasheva PART II DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: BEYOND HUMAN CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS 3 Gender quotas on boards 20 years on: a useful tool for increased wider diversity? Achievements, “broken promises” and blindspots in the Norwegian board diversity debate 17 Cathrine Seierstad, Carl Åberg and Hilde Fjellvær 4 LGBT+ in the boardroom: a rainbow agenda for change 28 Mustafa Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil 5 Board diversity: the impact of dynamic capabilities, absorptive capacity and ambidexterity 45 Carl Åberg, Hilde Fjellvær and Cathrine Seierstad 6 Board of director international experience and CSR engagement in Asian emerging economies 62 Abdullah Al Mamun, Michael Seamer, Jeremy Galbreath and Mariano L.M. Heyden 7 Directors’ digital expertise and board diversity: empirical evidence from Dutch boards 81 Jana Oehmichen, Michelle Weck and Hans van Ees 8 Do nomination committees encourage corporate board diversity? 95 Hildur Magnúsdóttir, Throstur Olaf Sigurdjonsson, Audur Arna Arnardottir and Patricia Gabaldón PART III ADVANCES IN INTERSECTIONALITY 9 Diversity on corporate boards and shareholder activism: an intersectionality approach 112 Sarosh Asad and Dimitrios Georgakakis 10 Competing inequalities, inclusion and intersectionality: the role of gender, culture and marginal groups for leadership positions 123 Vartika Chandra Saman 11 Diversity and leadership in the South Pacific: intersectionality at play on Fijian boards of directors 134 Caitlin Harm Nam, Ana Naulu, Baljeet Singh and Sabina Tasheva PART IV HOW DO WE UTILIZE THE BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY? RESEARCH ON BOARD DIVERSITY, PROCESSES AND DECISION-MAKING 12 Group faultlines in boards of directors: current trends and future directions 145 Alana Vandebeek 13 Faultlines: understanding how board composition may influence team dynamics and subgroup formation in corporate boards 160 Esha Mendiratta 14 Diversity, board dynamics and board tasks: an introduction to the theory of proportions 177 Sara De Masi and Agnieszka Slomka-Golebiowska PART V CONSEQUENCES FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 15 Different contexts matter on different levels: plea for a deeper understanding of (responding to) (board) diversity 189 Andrea D. Bührmann and Katrin Hansen 16 Diversity and corporate governance: how can groundbreaking research be developed? 204 Morten Huse Index

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Book SynopsisThis incisive Handbook offers a timely and critical analysis of the gendered nature of public sector employment. Bringing together key theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research from around the world, Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg examine the ways in which female public sector workers experience intersectional discrimination in the workplace. Covering key sites of employment for women across the globe, the Handbook considers a comprehensive range of gendered public sector occupations. Chapters investigate how women's employment in public services is influenced by complex political and economic tensions, exploring core issues such as the relationship between gender, ethnicity, occupational segregation and work-life balance, flexible working, and workplace bullying; gendered pay and pension inequality; the sources of feminist activism in public sector employment; and the impact of the pandemic on feminised public sector occupations. Ultimately, the Handbook highlights that while change is possible, it will require a radical rethinking of how public services are valued and funded in society. Providing cutting-edge analysis and empirical data on gender and public sector employment, this Handbook will be an essential resource for academics and researchers interested in the role of the State as Employer. Its thought-provoking yet accessible insights into gendered employment will further benefit students of social policy, gender politics, employment relations, and the sociology of work.Trade Review‘Conley and Sandberg have brought together an impressive group of authors to uncover the reality of work in the public sector from multiple national contexts. This international collection provides insight into the dominant driving forces shaping public sector employment and the differential impact on a diversity of workers in different national settings.’ -- Geraldine Healy, Queen Mary University of London, UK‘This Handbook speaks to some of the most pressing issues impacting the pursuit of gender equity in public service. The authors provide compelling contributions that illustrate the enduring undervaluation and underutilization of women’s talents. The qualitative and quantitative analyses offer snapshots of persistent gender inequity from around the globe. Together, they present a powerful call for change.’ -- Heather Getha-Taylor, University of Kansas, US‘While advancements have been made, more work needs to be done to fully include women in governance. This Handbook brings together an impressive roster of international and interdisciplinary scholars to examine gender in public sector employment, including continuing issues and new challenges for our changing world. This is an amazing, up-to-date resource for scholars of gender and public administration.’ -- Jessica Sowa, University of Delaware, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment 1 Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg PART I GENDER AND THE NEO-LIBERAL STATE AS EMPLOYER 2 The state as employer (and regulator) of care services in Germany 10 Karin Gottschall and Ruth Abramowski 3 Real utopias at work. Conflicts and dreams among nurses in the public sector 22 Paula Mulinari and Rebecca Selberg 4 Tensions between welfare services and competitiveness: public sector wages in competitive corporatism and the social democratic gender regime 36 Miikaeli Kylä-Laaso 5 The role of the state in promoting gender equality in public transport employment: evidence from the Global South 50 Tessa Wright 6 Gender, class and the meritocratic ideal. The case of the life sciences in Italian academia 64 Camilla Gaiaschi 7 Gendered employment in public universities: the influence of neo-liberal reforms and union policies in the case of Iceland 78 fiorger›ur Einarsdóttir and Finnborg S. Steinflórsdóttir PART II GENDER AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 8 Overcoming ‘administrative man’? Redoing gender in Australian public services 94 Sue Williamson and Linda Colley 9 Empowering or depleting women’s work? Public sector reform and small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare 108 Helene Brodin and Elin Peterson 10 The dynamics influencing women to become teachers in the public sector of Pakistan 122 Mahwish Khan 11 Lean management and hybrid masculinization – a case study from the Finnish healthcare 136 Timo Aho and Laura Mankki 12 Gender differences among city managers in the United States 150 Beth M. Rauhaus, Kathryn E. Webb Farley and Robert D. Eskridge 13 The brass cliff? Women police chiefs and police reform 163 Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Amie M. Schuck and John C. Navarro PART III WOMEN’S PAY, REWARD AND PENSIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 14 Evidencing women’s progress in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service 176 Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Amanda Young-Hauser, Patricia Loga, Selu Paea and Shirley Barnett 15 The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand 193 Katherine Ravenswood 16 Regulating women’s pay in Finland and the UK – the role of the public sector 205 Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg 17 Limits of accountability: gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities 219 Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Anna Fogelberg Eriksson 18 Examining gender-based inequalities in US public sector administrative positions over time 234 Valerie H Hunt, Larra Rucker, Melissa A Taylor and Brinck Kerr PART IV WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION AND VOICE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 19 Trade union campaigns for early childcare and school secretarial work in Ireland 250 Pauline Cullen 20 Representation and voice in two feminised health professions 264 Cécile Guillaume and Gill Kirton 21 Rethinking exit and voice in the crisis of care – collective repertoires among welfare workers in Sweden 278 Anna Ryan Bengtsson 22 The state monetary deficit is carried on women’s backs barriers to union action in the neo-liberalised employment of teachers and social workers in Israel 292 Orly Benjamin PART V GENDER, PANDEMIC AND PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT 23 An exploration into Black and Asian healthcare workers in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service being disproportionally affected by Covid-19 307 Beverley Brathwaite 24 Underfunding of nursing education and the precarious employment conditions of nurses: an exploration of contributing factors, COVID-19 pandemic implications, and structural solutions 320 Virginia Gunn, Michael Villeneuve, Patricia O’Campo and Carles Muntaner 25 Examining the experiences of Canadian women police during Covid-19: a liminal space for cultural change 335 Debra Langan, Carrie Sanders and Danielle Thompson 26 Public institutions and home-based teleworking in times of pandemic: a case study at the University of Valencia 348 Isabel Pla-Julián Index

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Book SynopsisDo witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised? If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female? There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse. With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Seduced by Satan; Cynthia Jones Chapter 2. Murders most Foul; Kristin Bone Chapter 3. Male gaze and Female Monstrosity; Almudena Nido Chapter 4. The Monstrous Girl; Miranda Corcoran Chapter 5. Punk mood, Junk Food; Gina Gwenffrewi Chapter 6. Digital Coercive Control Morag; Claire Kennedy Chapter 7. Women, Torture and the Abuse of Power; Theresa Porter and Helen Gavin Chapter 8. Good blokes and Bad Mothers; Laura Button

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Book SynopsisThe Adventure Tourist: Being, Knowing, Becoming brings together two broad areas of academic inquiry – adventure tourism and hospitality studies. In situating the adventure tourist within social, cultural, political, and geographic contexts, The Adventure Tourist considers the adventure experience and offers new ways in which this can be more deeply analysed and interpreted. Focused on the personal tourist experience and what it means to seek adventure through tourism in an uncertain and troubled world, Farkić and Gebbels question the dynamic interactions in modern commodified adventure tourism practice. By questioning hospitality services through philosophical and sociological concepts, focus is maintained on the agency of the individual, bringing into discussion the senses, emotions, and desires of those who consume outdoor spaces globally. The Adventure Tourist responds to the requirements of the outdoor adventure industry today and considers how engagement with theory can inform, challenge and support real-world scenarios in this sector.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Being, knowing, becoming Chapter 2. Enframing adventure tourism in 21st century Chapter 3. Guided adventures Chapter 4. Hospitality in adventure tourism Chapter 5. Constructing comfort in the outdoors Chapter 6. Future adventures and new horizons

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Book SynopsisEmancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and freedom in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central concern within the book is how African and African descendant women navigated enslaved motherhood and negotiated the divide between enslavement and freedom for themselves and their children. The book is, therefore, organised around the subject position of the enslaved mother and the reproduction of her children in enslavement, while the condition of enslaved motherhood is examined through overlapping historical praxis evidenced in nineteenth-century Bahia: contested freedom, racialised mothering, and competing maternal interests - biological, ritual, surrogate. The point at which these interests converged historically was, it is argued, a conflict over black female reproductive rights.Table of ContentsFigures INTRODUCTION PART I Emancipatory narratives and enslaved motherhood Introduction 1. “An act so meritorious and humanitarian” 2. “Despite all the benefits given to her by my family” Conclusion PART II Enslaved children, free/d children Introduction 3. “They can bring, with less risk of detection, a greater number” 4. “To forever enjoy his freedom” Conclusion PART III Enslaved mother, enslaver father Introduction 5. “She was mistress of the house” 6. “I must declare this house is hers” Conclusion PART IV African mothers, Brazilian daughters Introduction 7. “Because they are always intertwined” 8. “Having raised her as my daughter” Conclusion EPILOGUE Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book traces women’s entrepreneurial journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the linkages between entrepreneurship, gender and development context. With extensive case studies of women’s experiences across the enterprise life-cycle, it gives new insight into how to support and empower Sub-Saharan African female entrepreneurs.Exploring start-up, small and medium-sized enterprises, this book tracks the wide range of choices facing prospective and established female entrepreneurs, business owners and managers. Chapters cover new developments in business, including alternative entrepreneurial finance, collaborative networks, digital entrepreneurship and transitional entrepreneurship in women-owned businesses. Using original research spanning the tourism, hospitality, agriculture, education and financial services sectors, Michael Zisuh Ngoasong considers the role of family and ethnic structures in shaping women’s business journeys. Through diverse case studies of women’s successes and failures in business, Ngoasong provides new insight on the entrepreneurial opportunities, challenges, and risks facing Sub-Saharan African women.This book will be a rich resource for researchers and educators interested in entrepreneurship, gender and management, and development studies. It will also be a vital guide for practitioners seeking to identify and execute context-specific entrepreneurial opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review‘Michael Zisuh Ngoasong has made an impressive contribution to the literature on entrepreneurship and women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa with his book, Women's Entrepreneurial Journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges women entrepreneurs face in the region while highlighting the opportunities and potential for growth. The book covers a diverse range of topics, including financing, family influences, networks, and digital technology, providing policymakers, academics, and practitioners with valuable insights and practical advice for supporting and empowering women entrepreneurs. It provides a compelling argument for the transformative potential of women's entrepreneurship, making a powerful case for investing in the growth and success of women-owned businesses. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa, paving the way for sustainable and inclusive economic growth.’ -- Ogechi Adeola, Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria‘Drawing on both rigorous research and personal experiences, Ngoasong's Women’s Entrepreneurial Journeys offers an insightful portrayal of the challenges and triumphs of Sub Saharan Africa's women entrepreneurs. Bursting with examples and insights on entrepreneurial success, this book provides a fresh new look at Africa’s innovators; essential reading for anyone working on empowering Africa's women.’ -- Louise Twining-Ward, World Bank GroupTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing women’s entrepreneurial journeys in sub-Saharan Africa 2 Contextualising women’s entrepreneurship in SSA 3 Financing women’s entrepreneurial journeys: the perspective of financing institutions 4 Financing women’s entrepreneurial journeys: the role of women’s entrepreneurial agency 5 Family influences on women’s entrepreneurial journeys 6 Women’s entrepreneurial responses in organisational and inter-organisational contexts 7 The paradox of gendered positions in women’s digital entrepreneurial journeys 8 Women’s transitional entrepreneurship 9 Networks in women’s entrepreneurial journeys 10 The future of women’s entrepreneurial journeys in sub-Saharan Africa References Index

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Book SynopsisEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Drawing on interviews with workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and researchers, Austin provides a compelling narrative of the development of feminist-inspired cross-class alliances. She follows the movement from its beginnings in the student protests of the 1980s and 1990s, through its lobbying, street protests, and networking in the 2000s, ending with the digital activism stimulated by COVID-19. Shifting focus from migrant domestic workers to the five million in Indonesian homes, Austin interweaves theoretical insights with evocative portrayals of individual lives. Informed by the author's experience of living in Indonesia in the 1980s, Domestic Workers in Indonesia offers a novel analysis of the changing imaginaries of domestic work. Chronicling activism in spaces ranging from the neighbourhood meeting house and domestic worker schoolroom to the smart hotels of transnational activism, Austin locates the movement's resilience in a feminist politics of presence that has enabled the emergence of a nascent Indonesian domestic worker class. This first full-length study of domestic worker organizing in Indonesia will appeal to scholars, activists, and policy makers concerned about the global gender injustices of informal employment and with the futures for feminist, labour and social movement activism in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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Book SynopsisWomen and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnational migrants in Italian society. The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers’ approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetic of hospitality that filmmakers propose as a critical framework to condemn Italian border policies and politics. Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality traces an arc that moves from the embrace of a humanitarian rhetoric of infinite hospitality toward migrants, apparent in films produced in the early 2000s, to a more fluid understanding of Italian identities from a transnational perspective.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface: Representing Migration in the Time of the CoronavirusChapter OneIntroduction: Screening Migrant HospitalityChapter TwoThe Limits of Hospitality: Marco Tullio Giordana’s Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti and Ivano De Matteo’s La bella genteChapter ThreeMaternal Hospitality and Liquid Maternity on ScreenChapter FourWomen and the City: Female Forms of Hospitality in Marina Spada’s Come l’ombra and Giulia Ciniselli and Anna Bernasconi’s Via Padova: Istruzioni per l’usoChapter FiveGuest Stars: Performing Hospitality in the Italian Film IndustryChapter SixConclusion: No Longer Guests: G2 Filmmakers and Their StoriesBibliographyFilmography

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking Research Handbook adeptly navigates how gender and diversity are addressed in sport management. Offering insight into practices and processes that work to exclude certain groups and practices, and favour others, it highlights how gendered ways of organizing sport are experienced and may be sustained, disrupted, and challenged.Leading international scholars employ theoretical frameworks to comprehensively set out how individuals or groups engaged in leading and managing sport are situated in the social world and engage in managerial practices. Providing a wealth of conceptual analyses, the authors of the various chapters explore diverse feminist theories, perspectives, and methodologies to expertly examine gender-based marginalization in sport management at local and international levels. Expert contributors reveal how women negotiate and navigate gender and intersecting identity categories in sport organizations.Presenting a wide variety of feminist perspectives on sport management, sport organizations, and coaching, this Research Handbook will prove a valuable resource to researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of sport management and sport sociology. It will also be essential reading for policy makers working in sport organizations.Trade Review‘In the Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management, Markula and Knoppers provide an insightful and encompassing overview of the topic that is impressive in scope and quality. With stellar contributions from leading scholars around the world, this text will undoubtedly impact research, teaching, and practice.’ -- George B. Cunningham, University of Florida, US‘When two pioneers of gender and diversity studies in sport join forces to curate a kaleidoscope of feminist perspectives on gender-based and intersectional marginalization in sport organizations, expectations are high. This Research Handbook firmly delivers on these expectations, offering comprehensive and thought-provoking insights into how gendered ways of organizing and managing sport are experienced and may be disrupted and transformed. The Research Handbook stands out through its theoretical diversity in understanding gender in sport organizations, leadership, and coaching. In doing so, it paves the way for enhancing the breadth and depth of impact of critical research in sport management.’ -- Ramón Spaaij, Victoria University, Australia‘A very welcome, important, and valuable contribution to the theorizing of gender and diversity in sport management! The original work by international scholars on how gender intersects with other relations of power offers new, expanding, and exciting insights to the field. Thus, this Research Handbook represents a must and an invaluable reference source for students, faculty, and policy makers in sport.’ -- Jorid Hovden, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi Introduction: why a Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management 1 Annelies Knoppers and Pirkko Markula PART I ACCESSING POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP IN GLOBAL SPORT 1 A decade of tracking women’s participation in the governance of international sport federations 21 Johanna A. Adriaanse 2 Gender representation and policy implementation in the governance of international Paralympic organizations 37 Lucy V. Piggott and Jordan J. K. Matthews 3 Gender, leadership, and (dis)ability 52 Erin Pearson and Laura Misener 4 Gender and diversity in mediated sport marketing: using “old” and “new” media 65 Dunja Antunovic and Annika Olson 5 Doing gender in the neoliberal, global context of sport management 79 NaRi Shin and Doo Jae Park PART II NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING INTERSECTIONALITY 6 Managing gendered sport organizations 94 Laura Burton and Ajhanai C. I. Keaton 7 The “motherhood penalty” and sport leadership 110 Sarah Zipp and Sasha Sutherland 8 The gendered organization of men’s professional sport 124 Lauren C. Hindman and Nefertiti A. Walker 9 Institutional heteronormativity in Dutch sport clubs 137 Inge Claringbould and Pepijn Geldof 10 Heteronormativity and gender-based violence in Sport for Development 151 Julia Ferreira Gomes and Jessica Nachman, Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst, and Mitchell McSweeney PART III NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING COACHING 11 Occupational hazards: harassment and women’s work as sport coaches 167 Sarah Barnes 12 The socially reproductive labor of women sport coaches 181 Alixandra Krahn and Parissa Safai 13 Refuting gender essentialism about women in sport coaching 192 Nicole M. LaVoi and Anna Goorevich 14 Gender, women, and community sport coaching 206 Ruth Jeanes, Aishwarya Ravi and Laura Alfrey 15 Elite coaching, gender, and diversity 220 Bettina Callary and Brian Gearity PART IV CHANGING PRACTICES IN MANAGING SPORT 16 Influencers for change: women leading in the outdoor sector 234 Emily Ankers and Beccy Watson 17 Gender inclusive sport: what’s in it for (all) women? 248 Ryan Storr and Sheree Bekker 18 Balancing inclusion, fairness, and binaries in transgender eligibility sport policies 262 Anna Posbergh 19 Gender and voluntary work for diverse and traditionally marginalized identities in community sport organizations 277 Dawn E. Trussell and Shannon Kerwin 20 Re-imagining mothers exercising leadership in sport management 291 Talia Ritondo, Sarah Leberman and Dawn E. Trussell 21 Sexualization and gendered empowerment in a Sport for Development organization in Brazil 304 Eva Soares Moura PART V THEORIZING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN SPORT MANAGEMENT 22 Process-figurational sociology and gender relations in sport management 318 Louise Mansfield and Philippa Velija 23 Bourdieu on the field: gender, power and the organization of sport 331 Allison Jeffrey and Holly Thorpe 24 Critical feminisms in sport management: theory and practice 345 Sally Shaw 25 Critical discourse analysis, gender, and sport management 358 Larena Hoeber 26 Poststructuralist feminist approaches in sport management research 370 Zoë Avner 27 Phenomenological perspectives for sport management research 385 Gunn Helene Engelsrud 28 Feminist new materialist insights for sport management 398 Simone Fullagar and Adele Pavlidis Conclusion: directions for future research 413 Pirkko Markula and Annelies Knoppers Index 430

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Book SynopsisReconceptualising human experience through a holistic feminist approach, this book takes us behind the scenes to connect with women navigating the problems and contradictions of everyday working life.

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Book SynopsisExploring the multifaceted relationship between gender and the construction industry, this work addresses the scarcity of women in construction and demonstrates how we can overcome these challenges.

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Book SynopsisEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Among the many communities of memory associated with the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), the group perhaps most evocative of the complexity of this conflict and its aftermath are the harkis: Algerian men who served as auxiliary soldiers in the French army. Demobilized following Algerian independence, many of those who succeeded in reaching France found themselves and their families housed in ‘transit’ camps for several years. Presenting readings that consider works by prominent authors as well as self-published narratives in their specific generational, gendered and (post)colonial contexts, this book argues that writing by daughters and granddaughters of harkis challenges the notion that this community is locked in a static or competitive logic of memory. Instead, second- and third-generation memory work by female descendants of harkis demands forms of imaginative projection and reconstruction which call into question often universalizing or individualist configurations of identity, trauma and testimony. Reconstructive Memory Work demonstrates how these texts probe the complexities of belonging, inheritance and reparation, allowing their authors and narrators to gain knowledge of painful pasts, while also bringing transgenerational silences and sedimented affect into the open. Focusing in particular on these works’ complex interweaving of memory and imagination, this study explores how diverse and dynamic forms of memory work test the boundaries of individual and collective experience, of past and present, and of unspeakability and the necessity of bearing witness, creating unprecedented dialogues across and between subjectivities, memories and temporalities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Imaginative Reconstructions: (Re)writing Family (Hi)storiesChapter Two: Reconstructive Quests: Performing In-Between IdentitiesChapter Three: Intergenerational Trauma and Spectral LegaciesChapter Four: Dialogic Testimony and Active WitnessesConclusion: (Re)constructive listeningConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the world of women who married, or dealt with British soldiers below the rank of officer during the nineteenth century, including fiancées, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, as well as the prostitutes they consorted with. It examines women's experiences over the time cycle of a soldier's service. It considers women's finances, how they struggled to make ends meet and how they appealed to the government for support, including in widowhood and after a soldier's service had been completed. It discusses how soldiers' women were viewed in the press, in literature and in society more widely, highlighting in particular issues concerning morality and independence, and outlines how the Crimean War and its aftermath brought about extensive army reforms and also a sharp revision of the reputation of soldiers' wives. The book includes an exploration of soldiers' relations with prostitutes and how prostitutes were regulated, and a consideration of the impact on soldiers' wives of physical arrangements such as barracks, and overall provides much insight into the nature of plebeian life in the nineteenth century. The women portrayed often emerge as exceptionally resolute, independent and canny.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Courtship, Marriage, and Affection 2. The Culture of the Wives: Life in the British Isles 3. Life Abroad 4. The Crimean War: Helping the Women Left Behind 5. Living through Crisis 6. Prostitution Conclusion Appendix: Ellen of Ayr Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts. Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts, this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is transpiring in the transnational sport, gender and development field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community context and local iterations. Taking up emerging and contemporary feminist issues in sport related international development, this book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments in sport, gender and development.Trade ReviewThis is a much anticipation and welcomed text, and widely exciting because of the nuanced coalescing of three subject matters: development, gender and sport, which are deeply important to me. I know I would simply pick the book up and look to read it, based on the bringing together of Hayhurst, Thorpe and Chawansky in one space. All brilliant feminist scholars in their own right. This book will undoubtedly hold significant appeal to many of us working in the sport for development, gender, space and will become a must have resource. Those new to thinking about sport for development through a gender lens would do well to make this text their start point! I look forward to having my own well handled, marked up copy and for years to come I have no doubt I will be regularly lifting it off my book shelf and saying to research students. This is a seminal text, make sure you are familiar with it, and the broader work of those who have contributed. -- Rochelle Stewart-Withers is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New ZealandSport for development must urgently move beyond its missionary phase, especially after the exacerbating inequalities of COVID. For those who deploy sports to empower girls and young women and educate boys and men, this book is essential. The authors and their collaborators offer both caution and encouragement through frank theoretical insights and instructive case studies from the Global South. I found it learned, honest and extremely informative. -- Bruce Kidd, Professor Emeritus, University of TorontoTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing Sport, Gender and Development: A Critical Intersection Chapter 2. Doing Feminist Research in Sport, Gender and Development: Navigating Relationships, Ethics and Sweaty Concepts Chapter 3. Economic Empowerment in Sport, Gender and Development; with Payoshni Mitra Chapter 4. Action Sports for Gender Development Chapter 5. Geographies of Gender and Embodiment in Sport for Development Work Chapter 6. Entangled Human and Nonhuman Relations in Sport, Gender and Development; with Lidieth del Socorro Cruz Centeno Chapter 7. The Ethics of Visibilities: Sport for Development Media Portrayals of Girls and Women Chapter 8. Feminist Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL); with Nida Ahmad Epilogue; Martha Saavedra

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Book SynopsisThe Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought is the first volume to explore how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed. The contributors explore their insights and how they illuminate contemporary economic debates regarding women's status.The classical school specified a number of fundamental research themes which have since dominated how economists approach this topic. A sophisticated response was developed to the question: why is it that in all human societies women have suffered a lower status than that enjoyed by men? Those who theorized on the question are covered here and include: Poulain de la Barre, John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Nicolas and Sophie de Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Priscilla Wakefield, Jean-Baptiste Say, Nassau Senior, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Harriet Martineau, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler.Economists interested in the history of their discipline as well as women's studies scholars from history, philosophy and politics will find this an enlightening volume. Non-technical in nature, it will also appeal to anyone interested in how economists have explained the economic and social status of women.Trade Review'Seven authors contributed to this well-edited volume that explores the publications, lectures, public comments, and correspondence of several well- and lesser-known classical thinkers regarding women's role in society, politics, and the economy. . . . anyone interested in gender scholarship and/or economic thought will find the collection interesting and long overdue. . . . very informative and insightful. I would say it is a book every economist and serious student with an interest in the history of thought and/or gender analysis should read, and of course it will also be beneficial for historians of feminist thought. As a teaching tool, it will make a useful companion to a traditional history of economic thought text.' -- Jennifer Ball, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology'Focusing on the relatively unstudied status of women in classical political economy, this important collection of essays will inform, delight, and even surprise the reader. The essays provide a testimony both to the intellectual richness of the period, as well as the extraordinary social and political events of the time. The most striking unifying theme of the work is how social and political contexts served to generate the economic ideas of and about women.' -- Sandra J. Peart, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology'The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought contains 15 essays, all of good quality and most by well-known scholars. . . it is the only work of its kind and will be indispensable for scholarly use.' -- Athol Fitzgibbons, Economic Analysis and Policy'Each of the contributors, Annie L. Cot, Evelyn Forget, Peter Groenewegen, Thomas Heenan, and David Levy, in addition to the two editors, provide analyses that enlighten us about the nature of classicists' interest in the sources of gender inequalities, and the possibilities for readdressing them.' -- Ingrid H. Rima, EH.Net'A worthwhile volume for those interested in the history of the economic status of women, and as a basic reference for all academic libraries. Highly recommended.' -- E.P. Hoffman, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Gender Relations and Classical Economics – The Evolution of a Tradition 2. Poulain de la Barre and the Rationalist Analysis of the Status of Women 3. John Locke, Equality of Rights and Diversity of Attributes 4. Biology and Environment: Montesquieu’s Relativist Analysis of Gender Behaviour 5. Adam Smith, Stage Theory and the Status of Women 6. Women’s Progress and ‘the End of History’ 7. Condorcet and Equality of the Sexes: One of Many Fronts for a Great Fighter for Liberty of the Eighteenth Century 8. Cultivating Sympathy: Sophie Condorcet’s Letters on Sympathy 9. ‘Let There be no Distinction Between the Sexes’: Jeremy Bentham on the Status of Women 10. An Eighteenth-Century English Feminist Response to Political Economy: Priscilla Wakefield’s Reflections (1798) 11. The Market for Virtue: Jean-Baptiste Say on Women in the Economy and Society 12. Women in Nassau Senior’s Economic Thought 13. William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler: A Marriage of Minds on Jeremy Bentham’s Doorstep 14. Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously 15. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and French Social Theory Index

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Book SynopsisThis book documents the progress that managerial and professional women have made in advancing their careers, and the challenges and opportunities that remain. In the context of increasing numbers of women entering the workplace and indeed pursuing professional and managerial careers, it examines why so few women occupy the top positions in corporations. The editors maintain that whilst the benefits of employing women in executive roles is now being recognised, and efforts are being made to ensure career advancement, female employees do still face a struggle against male bias and the proverbial 'glass ceiling'. In order to build upon the progress that has been made, the book advocates more successful role models for women, an increased commitment from corporations to look at the opportunities for leadership that women present, and extended research into the strengths and failings of organisations in this regard. A broad range of issues are explored, including ongoing challenges of work-family integration, perceptions of gender, leadership and career development, the ethics of office romances, and women at mid-life. Best practices for supporting women's career advancement are then illustrated using the efforts of award wining companies as case studies. The cutting-edge contributions to this book provide an outstanding review of the literature. As such, it will be invaluable to both academics and practitioners with an interest in business, management and human resources.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Advancing Women’s Careers: Small Wins but Unfinished Business Part I: A Status Report: Past, Present and Future 2. High-Achieving Women: Progress and Challenges 3. Women’s Advancement in Management: What is Known and Future Areas to Address 4. Reforming the ‘Glass Ceiling’ Debate Part II: Work, Career and Life Experience 5. Perceptions of Gender, Leadership and Career Development 6. Mentoring and Identity Development: The Role of Self-Determination 7. Women at Midlife: Changes, Challenges, and Contributions Part III: Ongoing Challenges 8. On the Ethics of Office Romance: Developing a Moral Compass for the Workplace 9. Work–life Challenges Professional Women Face in Pursuing Careers 10. Work–life Balance Practices in Health Care Organizations: A 2003 Status Report Part IV: Best Practices for Advancing Women 11. Best Practices for Supporting Women Engineer’s Career Development in US Corporations 12. Best Practices for Women of Color in Corporate America 13. Marketing Diversity in the Corporate Workplace Part V: Company Initiatives for Advancing Women 14. Shell Oil Company US: The 2004 Catalyst Award Winner for Diversity Initiatives 15. Different Yet Equal Index

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Book SynopsisA much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world. In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and identity and the rise of the people of 'no religion'. The second was the transformation in women's lives that spawned a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. Both phenomena were sudden though not uniform in their impact. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered byan historic confluence of factors in the 1960s. Canada, Ireland, UK and USA represent different stages of secularisation for the book's study. The religious collapse in mainland Britain and most of Canada was sharp and spectacular but contrasted with the more resilient religious cultures of the United States, the Canadian Maritimes, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Using statistical evidence from government censuses, the book demonstrates how secularisation was deeply linked to demographic change. Starting with the distinctive features of the 1960s, the book quantifies secularisation's scale, timing and character in each nation. Then, the intense links of women's sexual revolution to religious decline are explored. From there, women's changing patterns of marriage, coupling and birthing are correlated with diminishing religiosity. The final exploration is into the secularising consequences of economic change, higher education and women's expanding work roles. This book transforms the way in which secularisation is imagined. Religion matters more than mere belief, practice and the churches; it shapes how populations construct their sexual practices, families and life-course. In nations where religion has been dissolving since 1960 into apathy and atheism, the process has been part of a demographic revolution built on new moral codes. Connecting religious history with the history of population, this volume unveils how the historian and sociologist need to engage with the demographic enormity of the decline of Christendom. CALLUM G. BROWN is Professor of Religiousand Cultural History at the University of Dundee.Trade ReviewMakes an important contribution to our understanding of religion and identity in this period. * HISTORY *An indispensible contribution to the field. The book will go a long way toward helping to bring gender as a crucial category of analysis from the periphery to the center of the secularization debate. * CHURCH HISTORY *Laden with social scientific data, this work will appeal to students at all levels interested in contemporary Western religious culture, sociology of religion, and gender studies. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Sixties Religious change Sex and religion Family and religion The economy and women's religion The decision makers Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMargery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic tradition; female mystics and the body; women's roles and lifecycle; religious drama and reenactment; autobiography and gender. Contributors: JOHN H. ARNOLD, P.H. CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, ALLYSON FOSTER, JACQUELINE JENKINS, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, KATE PARKER, KIM M. PHILLIPS, SARAH SALIH, CLAIRE SPONSLER, DIANE WATT,BARRY WINDEATT.Table of ContentsPreface - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis Introduction: Reading and Re-Reading The Book of Margery Kempe - Barry A Windeatt Margery Kempe and the Ages of Woman - Kim M Phillips Men and Margery: Negotiating Medieval Patriarchy - Lynn and the Making of a Mystic - Kate Parker Margery's Trials: Heresy, Lollardy and Dissent - John H Arnold A Short Treatyse of Contemplacyon: The Book of Margery Kempe in its Early Print Contexts - Allyson Foster Reading and The Book of Margery Kempe - Jacqueline Jenkins Margery Kempe, Drama and Piety - Claire Sponsler Political Prophecy in The Book of Margery Kempe - Diane Watt Margery's Bodies: Piety, Work and Penance - Sarah Salih 'Yf lak of charyte be not ower hynderawnce': Margery Kempe, Lynn, and the practice of the spiritual and bodily works of mercy - P H Cullum Margery Kempe and Saint-Making in Later Medieval England - Katherine J Lewis Final Thoughts - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis Bibliography

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Book SynopsisText, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skáldkonur. The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the material which can be attributed to women skalds. This book, intended for a broad audience, presents a bilingual edition (Old Norse and English) of this material, from the ninth to the thirteenth century and beyond, with commentary and notes. The poems here reflect the dramatic and often violent nature of the sagas: their subject matter features Viking Age shipboard adventures and shipwrecks; prophecies; curses; declarations of love and of revenge; duels, feuds and battles; encounters with ghosts; marital and family discord; and religious insults, among many other topics. Their authors fall into four main categories: pre-Christian Norwegian and Icelandic skáldkonur of the Viking Age; Icelandic skáldkonur of the Sturlung Age (thirteenth century); additional early skáldkonur from the Islendingasögur and related material, not as historically verifiable as the first group; and mythical figures cited as reciting verse in the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur). Sandra Ballif Straubhaar is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade Review[O]ffers a lively and accessible introduction to the work of female poets in medieval Scandinavian texts. [...] seeks to give voice to the impressive range of women's poetry found within the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [...] the volume is admirable in its focus on female poets who have traditionally claimed less scholarly attention than their male counterparts. * SAGA-BOOK *Drawing on the most up-to-date Norse texts available [...] Straubhaar's collection will be useful for Norse scholars thinking about poetic aspects of gender, literary scholars of European literature interested in gender conceptualisations, and should even appeal to the casual reader. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Verse Translations and Commentary Real People, Real Poetry Quasi-Historical People and Poetry Visionary Women: Women's Dream-Verse Legendary Heroines Magic-Workers, Prophetesses and Alien Maidens Trollwomen Part 2: Prose Translations Glossary of Names: Persons and Weapons Time Line Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAnne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics. First English translation. Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of her time. As the fifteenth century drew to a close, Anne composed a series of enseignements, "lessons", forher daughter Suzanne of Bourbon. These instructions represent a distillation of a lifetime's experience, and are presented through the portrait of an ideal princess to help her negotiate the difficult passage of a woman in the world of politics. The lessons are here translated into English for the first time and accompanied by full introduction, commentary and notes. Professor Sharon L. Jansen teaches in the Department of English, Pacific Lutheran University.Trade ReviewOffers explication for non-specialist readers but at the same time provides serious scholarship. [...] A thoughtful and informative book which offers a sympathetic reassessment of Anne. * RICARDIAN *The translation is well-annotated where historical and literary explanations are needed. * YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES (hardback editions) *

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Book SynopsisTranslation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time. Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes. Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.Trade ReviewThis new rendering into modern English, with its excellent essays and scholarly bibliography, will certainly be read with great profit. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Essential. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThis first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 1822-1877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as 'Government Inspector' on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper orphans rather than their incarceration and for indicting Workhouse 'Barrack' schools for producing prostitution fodder. Her fight to defend her findings against male hostility politicised her and she became an icon for the late 19th century women's movement. Jeanie Senior was also a significant figure in the worlds of art, music and literature, even being, it is argued here, the vital inspiration for her friend George Eliot in creating Dorothea, heroine of Middlemarch. Her life was a great 'human story' as she struggled in the teeth of multiple bereavement, an unhappy marriage and cancer in order to rescue others more desperate and vulnerable still. Florence Nightingale told her she had been 'a noble Army of one' and later grieved that her 'premature death was a national and irreparable loss'.Trade Review"The fascinating biography of a Victorian who should never have been forgotten. Both the poignant private life and the heroic public life of 'Mrs Nassau Senior' here find an ebullient, witty and passionate chronicler." -- Barbara Hardy, Professor Emeritus, University of London."This tender and engaging portrait of Jeanie Senior, champion of the workhouse girl, reveals not just that she was admired by the great and good of Victorian Britain, but that now we must count her as one of them." -- Seth Koven, Rutgers University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Tom Brown's Sister -- Jeanie Hughes; Being 'Mrs Nassau Senior', 1848-1853; Enter Watts and Merimee, 1852-1856; Surviving Four Hard Years, 1856-1860; Life at Elm House, 1861-1864 -- 'Come to us!'; Father and Son; Politics and Society in the Late 1860s; Interlude: Music and Friendships; George Eliot's Dorothea?; War on Two Fronts; The First Woman Civil Servant; The Government Inspector Goes on a Girl Hunt; Mrs Senior's Report; Reception of the Report; Birth of a New Woman, 1875-1876; A Bonny Fighter; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange -- SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. While acknowledging the organisational and financial ties, as well as the great ideological affinity between the SF and the regime, Inbal Ofer demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Despite the need to constantly manoeuvre between the cultural and legal dictates of Francoist society, the unique activities and personal experiences of SF members at the heart of political power became a model for an array of policies and reforms that greatly improved the lives of Spanish women. From a unique gender perspective the topic of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange contributes to the debate on the nature of authoritarian regimes by reflecting on issues of policy formation and implementation; mass mobilisation; and the role of coercion alongside the creation of a "culture of consent". In exchange for a long-term commitment to the survival of the regime, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Falange gained considerable administrative power and a measure of freedom to act on political and social matters. As explained, the promotion of women's legal and political equality (reflected in the struggle to amend the Civil Code and ratify the Law for Political and Professional Rights) is a good example of the way organs within the "regime" made use of their position in order to legitimise non-consensual forms of activism. The SF efforts to increase the number of gainfully employed women and improve their working-conditions is an example of the unexpected uses made by agents of the "regime" of the freedom of action accorded them in the public arena. Inbal Ofer raises questions regarding the nature of women's political activism and capacity for autonomous action within authoritarian regimes, setting out the debate on the nature of feminism and its relation to female activism and the promotion of women as a collective. More specifically she engages with those works that critically evaluate women's public contribution within Catholic and / or nationalist settings, and is required reading for interested in the history of modern Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: The Birth of a Female Political Elite; Nurses & Students: Education, Professional Training & the Civil War Experience in the Shaping of Two Generations of Leadership; The National Syndicalist Woman: The Genealogy of a Gender Identity; Bridging the Gap between Elitist & Mass Politics: Gender Legislation of the Seccion Femenina de la FET; Am I that Body? Seccion Femenina de la FET & the Struggle for the Institution of Physical Education & Competitive Sports for Women; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange -- SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. While acknowledging the organisational and financial ties, as well as the great ideological affinity between the SF and the regime, Inbal Ofer demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Despite the need to constantly manoeuvre between the cultural and legal dictates of Francoist society, the unique activities and personal experiences of SF members at the heart of political power became a model for an array of policies and reforms that greatly improved the lives of Spanish women. From a unique gender perspective the topic of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange contributes to the debate on the nature of authoritarian regimes by reflecting on issues of policy formation and implementation; mass mobilisation; and the role of coercion alongside the creation of a "culture of consent". In exchange for a long-term commitment to the survival of the regime, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Falange gained considerable administrative power and a measure of freedom to act on political and social matters. As explained, the promotion of women's legal and political equality (reflected in the struggle to amend the Civil Code and ratify the Law for Political and Professional Rights) is a good example of the way organs within the "regime" made use of their position in order to legitimise non-consensual forms of activism. The SF efforts to increase the number of gainfully employed women and improve their working-conditions is an example of the unexpected uses made by agents of the "regime" of the freedom of action accorded them in the public arena. Inbal Ofer raises questions regarding the nature of women's political activism and capacity for autonomous action within authoritarian regimes, setting out the debate on the nature of feminism and its relation to female activism and the promotion of women as a collective. More specifically she engages with those works that critically evaluate women's public contribution within Catholic and / or nationalist settings, and is required reading for interested in the history of modern Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: The Birth of a Female Political Elite; Nurses & Students: Education, Professional Training & the Civil War Experience in the Shaping of Two Generations of Leadership; The National Syndicalist Woman: The Genealogy of a Gender Identity; Bridging the Gap between Elitist & Mass Politics: Gender Legislation of the Seccion Femenina de la FET; Am I that Body? Seccion Femenina de la FET & the Struggle for the Institution of Physical Education & Competitive Sports for Women; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisHeld back by the property qualifications needed to vote and stand as candidates in a range of local elections, female activists and feminists nonetheless formed local pressure groups to make their voices heard. When the property qualification was removed in the 1890s, they staked their claim to a formal engagement in public life, and by the early 20th century there were over 1000 female poor law Guardians. This book offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Focusing on the Lancashire mill town of Bolton, it traces the emergence of a core of female social and political activists from the 1860s and analyses their achievements as they rose from the humble origins of a workhouse visiting committee to become pivotal players in the formulation and implementation of local welfare policy after 1894. Using a unique working diary written by the activist and female poor law Guardian Mary Haslam, the book portrays these Bolton women as sophisticated political operators. The author challenges established notions that women involved in local welfare administration were resented and achieved little, showing their importance in the process by which Bolton Poor Law Union moved from being one of the most backward and obstructive to one of the most progressive and dynamic in the country, adopting best practice from Britain and overseas and revolutionising the material and psychological fabric of the poor law.Trade Review"...an interesting local and biographical study..." -- Pat Thane, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, in The English Historical Review, CXXIII, no 501, April 2008.Table of ContentsThe New Poor Law, Female Agency and Feminism; Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire and Bolton; Preparing the Ground? Philanthropy, Public Services and Activism; Fighting an Election; Negotiating Power; Making a Difference; Feminism, the Politics of Local Government and Suffrage; Brief Autobiographical Notes Written by Mary Haslam; Diary Kept by Mary Haslam of Her Work as a Poor Law Guardian; The Travel Diaries of Mary Haslam; Women's Suffrage in Bolton; Index.

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Book SynopsisMarie Stopes' work in the area of sexual health and contraception has left a lasting legacy, and she is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. Her Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties was first published in 1918, translated into thirteen languages and sold over a million copies. Stopes also ardently pursued her enthusiasm for literature throughout her life, writing novels, plays and poetry. Her novel Love's Creation, published in 1928, the year women obtained the vote, is a working through of the debates which she addressed both in her personal and public life: sexual relations, the relationship between the arts and sciences, the quest for female sexual fulfillment. Marie Stopes' campaigning on behalf of a more open attitude to women's sexuality, equality in marriage, and sexual health and contraception, and her opening of the first free birth control clinic in the British Empire in 1921, saw her at the centre of political controversy, not least in her battle with the Roman Catholic church. Love's Creation, republished here for the first time since 1928, offers fascinating insights into early twentieth-century women's writing, most notably Virginia Woolf's theories of female creativity / fulfilled female sexuality which is not under threat from motherhood; female economic and psychic freedom; and the social milieu of the time. It is an engaging and fast moving narrative with lively, well-drawn and unconventional characters. The novel poses important questions about women's choices and aspirations before, during and after marriage. Not surprisingly it also engages in still contemporary and vital debates about the relationship between the sciences and the arts, and theories of evolution.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.Table of ContentsThe Essays; Apparatus; Translations into English; Style, notes, & chronology; Using the Works Cited; A Biography of Laura Esquivel; An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism; Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate: The novels early critical reception; Like Water for Chocolate: The novel & the critics; Like Water for Chocolate: The film & the critics; The Law of Love; Swift as Desire; Malinche: A Novel; Future directions in Esquivel criticism; Laura Esquivels Mexican Chocolate; El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel; Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Like Water for Chocolate; Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate; The Absence of God & the Presence of Ancestors in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate; Gendered Spaces, Gendered Knowledge: A Cultural Geography of Kitchenspace in Central Mexico; Transformation, Code, & Mimesis: Healing the Family in Like Water for Chocolate; Cultural Identity & the Cosmos: Laura Esquivels Predictions for a New Millennium in The Law of Love; Laura Esquivels Quantum Leap in The Law of Love; The Two Mexicos of Swift as Desire; Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico; Esquivels Malinalli: Refusing the Last Word on La Malinche; Esquivels Fiction in the Context of Latin American Womens Writing; Glossary of Spanish & Nahuatl Words & Phrases; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn spite of the fact that detective fiction has been the most popular genre utilised by Spanish authors over the last thirty or so years, the female detective has appeared in such works on relatively rare occasions. Less frequent are Spanish female authors of detective fiction who employ a female detective as their main character. One author who has broken this stereotype is Reyes Calderón, with her female juez de instrucción (examining magistrate), originally created because the author was convinced that one popular, female, main character detective that did exist was simply "a man who was wearing a skirt" (interview with author). With the creation of her Basque character who, over the series, evolves from law-school professor to member of the Spanish Supreme Court, Calderón is able to "design a normal woman who confronts abnormal situations" (interview with author). Through such, Reyes Calderón aptly portrays both how far Spanish women have come since the days/restrictions of the Franco dictatorship but yet how remnants of conservative thought still pervade their mindset. She thus uses the most popular of genres to make a myriad of cultural observations concerning her native country and the women of "her generation". This book focuses on the female detective in Hispanic literature; the Lola MacHor Series, where via the main character Lola, Calderón is conducting a cultural studies experiment/explanation of modern-day Spain; concomitant issues of characterisation and Calderón's debt to Naturalism; Spanish novel writing and narrative style; and the pervading conservative/feminist dichotomy as it transpires in Spanish social commentary and moralising.

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