Gender studies: women and girls Books

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 SynopsisMigration makes a profound impression on identity (gender and sexuality, culture, class, status), its expressions, and performance. Research in this field has demonstrated that migrant communities often cast women as bearers of cultural reproduction. This is especially the case when women choose to become representatives of their community through cultural dance performances. Such performances are also a means to express the migrant life of movement and a way to maintain their sense of well-being. Dancing the Feminine is a compelling vision of expressions of gender and identity at the heart of the Asian womens experience. For the Indonesian female migrants, performing femininity is frequently negotiated in a cross-cultural context. The performances that author Monika Winarnita analyses are dramas of human interaction brought up through fissures and resolutions between the performers and their various audiences. The book provides analysis of these cultural performances as rituals of belonging, which demonstrate that in the diaspora meanings of the ritual are always open to being contested. A particular appeal of this book is the way in which cultural dance performance offers profound insight into migrants life experience as well as into how human beings tell their stories and interact with one another. Based on her experience of performing dance with Indonesian migrant women in Australia, the author provides a unique and novel set of research data that contributes to a diverse body of scholarly work in migration, performance, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, anthropology, and Asian studies.Trade ReviewMonika Winarnitas work provides an intellectually rigorous, insightful, original and engaging examination of the pursuit of traditional, authentic Indonesian dance performances by Indonesian immigrant women in Perth, Western Australia. -- Professor Henry Spiller (ethnomusicology) and Chair, Department of Music, UC Davis

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Book SynopsisDrawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centred history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics within the social and cultural everyday of life in occupied East Timor. The violence experienced by East Timorese women ranged from torture, rape, and interrogation, to various forms of surveillance and social control, and the structural imposition of particular feminine ideals upon their lives and bodies. Through women, East Timorese familial culture was also targeted via programmes to develop and modernise the territory by transforming the feminine and the domestic sphere. Women experienced the occupation differently to men, not just because they were vulnerable to sexual violence, but also because they endured proxy violence as the militarys means of targeting male relatives and the resistance at large. In Womens Words tells a story of survival and perseverance by highlighting the strength, initiative, and negotiating skills of East Timorese women. Many women lived in circumstances of constant negotiation and attempts to maintain order and normality, as well as to provide for themselves and their families, in a society where everyday life was characterised by violence and uncertainty. This study demonstrates the capacity of people to survive, to endure, and to resist, even amid the most difficult of circumstances. It provides insights into the social and cultural elements of territorial control, as well as the locally-grounded strategies that are often used for negotiating and resisting an occupying power.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, the focus of the study is three female generations, covering 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. What the Women Have to Say analyses the preservation of the Catalan language during Francos regime; how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining womens identities and as a nation-building tool. Additional analysis of a corpus of social media data explores the online Catalan discourses of nationalism and its gendered dimensions. A central interpretative tool is the concept of intersectionality, emphasising genders inter-connectedness with categories of class and ethnicity. An ntergenerational approach, and a focus on the local using a case study of a Catalan village outside the regions capital, opens new perspectives on the Catalan issue. By bringing together approaches from sociocultural linguistics and oral history, What the Women Have to Say provides important linkages between the economic, political and social circumstances pertaining today as they impact on the issue of nationalism in particular and in the wider discourses of nationalism, identity and migration in twenty-first century Europe.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in the realm of politics are a reflection of the power contestations women face with men in other spheres of everyday life. Each chapter seeks to ask a different question in terms of where women viz. men stand in the political landscape of their countries, in an effort to answer the question of Where are the women in the gender trope in Asian politics. While the chapters are primarily empirical as they delve into the challenges, contradictions and conflicts Southeast Asian women encounter, the main assertion is that womens struggles in the realm of politics are a result of having to operate within power structures created principally by men, thereby producing barriers for women to enter politics, on the one hand, and to increase their numbers and widen their sphere of influence, on the other. Recognizing that Asian politics is dominated by men, the question of how women have negotiated a value system that is inherently male-centred and male-controlled is also discussed. The implicit narrative demonstrated in this book is that the political arena should not be considered in isolation from other arenas but instead is essentially a mirror of other arenas whether the home, workplace, nation, and/or global spaces each marked by power contestations between men and women and having a spill-over effect on the other, as well as shaping womens experiences in the political realm.

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Book SynopsisWomen and Entrepreneurship is a careful selection of the most significant previously published material which has been influential in shaping the field of women's entrepreneurship. The volume presents early works which laid the foundations first asking whether women entrepreneurs were different, exploring issues about women entrepreneurs and their businesses and delving into more specific questions on individual, organizational, and environmental matters. An organizing framework connects the works from theory to the conceptual categories of human capital, including personal cognition and goals, social capital, financial capital, strategic choice, performance, outcomes and environment.The volume provides a comprehensive introduction for any researcher entering this field of study and illustrates those areas where additional research is greatly needed.Trade Review'This book is invaluable since it provides a cohesive overview of different theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and methodologies that address women's entrepreneurship. . . this collection should be the first stop for all those starting their research journey in the field as well as a handy companion for those further down the track. It is a valuable reference tool that provides easy access to the key articles on women's entrepreneurship, all effectively organised along the lines of seven dominant strands of research. The volume will certainly be a "launching pad for future scholastic work".' -- Anne de Bruin, Gender in Management'This is a long-awaited and very useful collection of 30 research articles on women's entrepreneurship, published in some of the leading entrepreneurship research journals. . . this collection gives the newcomer to the field a very useful introduction to research on women's entrepreneurship.' -- Helene Ahl, International Small Business Journal'. . . a very useful tool for all researchers interested in the study of a field that, in recent years, has been gaining increased attention within entrepreneurship. It assembles a good set of both theoretical and empirical contributions for our understanding of women's entrepreneurial behavior, and opens important research avenues not only within each of the five constructs selected by the editors but also within the relationships that may be established between them.' -- Vasco Eiriz and LuIs M. de Castro, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal'This volume brings together the best scholars from different academic disciplines to examine the contribution of women to market economies. It does a great job of blending theory and practice as we continue to understand entrepreneurship, the principal source of job and wealth creation in America.' -- - John Sibley Butler, IC2 and University of Texas, Austin, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Patricia G. Greene, Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Myra M. Hart PART I THEORY 1. Sue Birley (1989), ‘Female Entrepreneurs: Are They Really Any Different?’ 2. Candida G. Brush and Robert D. Hisrich (1991), ‘Antecedent Influences on Women-owned Businesses’ 3. Candida G. Brush (1992), ‘Research on Women Business Owners: Past Trends, a New Perspective and Future Directions’ 4. Eileen M. Fischer, A. Rebecca Reuber and Lorraine S. Dyke (1993), ‘A Theoretical Overview and Extension of Research on Sex, Gender, and Entrepreneurship’ 5. Barbara Bird and Candida Brush (2002), ‘A Gendered Perspective on Organizational Creation’ 6. Margaret J. Greer and Patricia G. Greene (2003), ‘Feminist Theory and the Study of Entrepreneurship’ PART II HUMAN CAPITAL AND COGNITION 7. Donald L. Sexton and Nancy Bowman-Upton (1990), ‘Female and Male Entrepreneurs: Psychological Characteristics and Their Role in Gender-related Discrimination’ 8. Karyn A. Loscocco, Joyce Robinson, Richard H. Hall and John K. Allen (1991), ‘Gender and Small Business Success: An Inquiry into Women’s Relative Disadvantage’ 9. Carin Holmquist and Elisabeth Sundin (1988), ‘Women as Entrepreneurs in Sweden: Conclusions from a Survey’ 10. Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Kelly G. Shaver and William B. Gartner (1995), ‘A Longitudinal Study of Cognitive Factors Influencing Start-up Behaviors and Success at Venture Creation’ 11. Nancy M. Carter, William B. Gartner, Kelly G. Shaver and Elizabeth J. Gatewood (2003), ‘The Career Reasons of Nascent Entrepreneurs’ PART III SOCIAL CAPITAL 12. Howard Aldrich (1989), ‘Networking Among Women Entrepreneurs’ 13. Ronald S. Burt (1998), ‘The Gender of Social Capital’ 14. Linda A. Renzulli, Howard Aldrich and James Moody (2000), ‘Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes’ PART IV FINANCIAL CAPITAL 15. E. Holly Buttner and Benson Rosen (1989), ‘Funding New Business Ventures: Are Decision Makers Biased Against Women Entrepreneurs?’ 16. Susan Coleman (2000), ‘Access to Capital and Terms of Credit: A Comparison of Men- and Women-owned Small Businesses’ 17. Ingrid Verheul and Roy Thurik (2001), ‘Start-Up Capital: “Does Gender Matter?”’ 18. Nancy M. Carter, Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene, Elizabeth Gatewood and Myra M. Hart (2003), ‘Women Entrepreneurs Who Break Through to Equity Financing: The Influence of Human, Social and Financial Capital’ 19. Patricia G. Greene, Candida G. Brush, Myra M. Hart and Patrick Saparito (2001), ‘Patterns of Venture Capital Funding: Is Gender a Factor?’ PART V STRATEGIC CHOICE 20. Nancy M. Carter, Mary Williams and Paul D. Reynolds (1997), ‘Discontinuance Among New Firms in Retail: The Influence of Initial Resources, Strategy, and Gender’ 21. Jennifer E. Cliff (1998), ‘Does One Size Fit All? Exploring the Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Growth, Gender, and Business Size’ 22. Alexandra L. Anna, Gaylen N. Chandler, Erik Jansen and Neal P. Mero (2000), ‘Women Business Owners in Traditional and Non-traditional Industries’ 23. Lisa K. Gundry and Harold P. Welsch (2001), ‘The Ambitious Entrepreneur: High Growth Strategies of Women-owned Enterprises’ PART VI PERFORMANCE 24. Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin T. Leicht (1991), ‘Gender and Organizational Performance: Determinants of Small Business Survival and Success’ 25. Radha Chaganti and Saroj Parasuraman (1996), ‘A Study of the Impacts of Gender on Business Performance and Management Patterns in Small Businesses’ 26. John Watson (2002), ‘Comparing the Performance of Male- and Female-controlled Businesses: Relating Outputs to Inputs’ PART VII ENVIRONMENTAL 27. Eleanor Brantley Schwartz (1976), ‘Entrepreneurship: A New Female Frontier’ 28. Lars Kolvereid, Scott Shane and Paul Westhead (1993), ‘Is it Equally Difficult for Female Entrepreneurs to Start Businesses in All Countries?’ 29. Ted Baker, Howard E. Aldrich and Nina Liou (1997), ‘Invisible Entrepreneurs: The Neglect of Women Business Owners by Mass Media and Scholarly Journals in the USA’ 30. Richard J. Boden, Jr (1999), ‘Gender Inequality in Wage Earnings and Female Self-employment Selection’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisEnterprising new firms drive economic growth, and women around the world are important contributors to that growth. As entrepreneurs, they seize opportunities, develop and deliver new goods and services and, in the process, create wealth for themselves, their families, communities, and countries. This volume explores the role women entrepreneurs play in this economic progress, highlighting the challenges they encounter in launching and growing their businesses, and providing detailed studies of how their experiences vary from country to country. Statistics show that businesses owned by women tend to remain smaller than those owned by men, whether measured by the number of employees or by the size of revenues. Because women-led firms fail to grow as robustly, the opportunities to innovate and expand are limited, as are the rewards. Based on recent studies that examine the links between entrepreneurial supply and demand issues, this volume provides insights into how women around the world are addressing the challenges of entrepreneurial growth. The first set of chapters consists of country overviews and provides discussions of the state of women growing businesses. The second set of chapters describes research projects under way in different countries and explores more focused topics under the umbrella of women business owners and business growth. The volume concludes with an agenda and projects for future research.Academics and policymakers will gain a greater understanding of women's entrepreneurial behaviors and outcomes through this path-breaking volume. Those who support women through education and training, policymaking, or providing entrepreneurial resources will also find the volume of great practical interest.Trade Review'The female entrepreneurship researchers' community has to thank these women for their brilliant work in reviewing, revising and selecting the best papers from the second Diana International Conference that were finally edited for this volume. . . the book is a good compendium of female entrepreneurship circumstances in different countries that focuses specifically on the explanation as to why gender plays a role in the number of ventures started by women and why they are in general smaller and less growth-oriented.' -- Manuela Pardo-del-Val, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal'. . . this edited text draws upon a range of international contributors to present a comparative overview of challenges facing female entrepreneurs seeking to grow their firms. . . this is an interesting book that makes a welcome contribution to contemporary debate.' -- Susan Marlow, International Small Business Journal'The data and information presented in this work will be of particular interest to students and scholars of entrepreneurship or labor and women's studies. Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.' -- E.P. Hoffman, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: PART I: COUNTRY REPORTS ON WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Introduction: The Diana Project International Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart 2. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Australia: Present and Their Future Mary Barrett 3. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada: Progress, Puzzles and Priorities Jennifer E. Jennings and Michelle Provorny Cash 4. State of the Art of Women’s Entrepreneurship, Access to Financing and Financing Strategies in Denmark Helle Neergaard, Kent T. Nielsen and John I. Kjeldsen 5. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Finland Anne Kovalainen and Pia Arenius 6. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Germany: Progress in a Still Traditional Environment Friederike Welter 7. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Norway: Recent Trends and Future Challenges Lene Foss and Elisabet Ljunggren 8. Women’s Entrepreneurship in the United States Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart PART II: RESEARCH TOPICS ON THE GROWTH OF WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES 9. Comparing the Growth and External Funding of Male- and Female-controlled SMEs in Australia John Watson, Rick Newby and Ann Mahuka 10. Builders and Leaders: Six Case Studies of Men and Women Small Proprietors in the Bulgarian Construction Industry Tatiana S. Manolova 11. Access to Finance for Women Entrepreneurs in Ireland: A Supply-Side Perspective Colette Henry, Kate Johnston and Angela Hamouda 12. Women Entrepreneurs in New Zealand: Private Capital Perspectives Anne de Bruin and Susan Flint-Hartle 13. The Supply of Finance of Women-led Ventures: The Northern Ireland Experience Claire M. Leitch, Frances Hill and Richard T. Harrison 14. Female Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations in Slovenia: An Unexploited Resource Polona Tominc and Miroslav Rebernik 15. Spain – The Gender Gap in Small Firms’ Resources and Performance: Still a Reality? Cristina Díaz and Juan J. Jiménez 16. Gender, Entrepreneurship and Business Finance: Investigating the Relationship between Banks and Entrepreneurs in the UK Sara Carter, Eleanor Shaw, Fiona Wilson and Wing Lam Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the employment lives of Chinese women living under different government systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the contributors to this volume present an overview of factors affecting the employment status of women. The volume includes chapters on the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - nations that have common Chinese cultural experiences but very different economic systems and government structures.Policies and laws vary widely in Chinese societies from the egalitarian, socialist provisions of The People's Republic of China to the laissez-faire, capitalist policy the British advocated for the Hong Kong government before 1997. Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures provides a theoretical introduction from both Chinese and Western perspectives, as well as summaries of the effect on women's employment of government policies on taxation, health and safety, reproduction, childcare, and education in each nation-state. By juxtaposing the work of women of a similar cultural heritage living under different government systems, new insights are gained that can benefit Chinese working women wherever they live. Scholars and students of management, labor, gender, and China will find this volume of great interest. Government leaders will also find the research on women's employment lives a useful tool in future decision-making.Trade Review'Granrose needs to be congratulated and complimented for her research endeavour in pooling the data from various geographical locations under one umbrella (Chinese) culture in a book format. . . this book is an interesting, important and valuable addition to the literature on career women.' -- Bijaya Mishra, Global Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Chinese Women with Different Government Systems Part I: Western Theory and Chinese Culture 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Women’s Employment Careers in a National Government Context 2. Images of Women and Government in the Chinese Cultural Heritage: A Brief Overview Part II: Government Policies and the Employment Status of Chinese Women 3. National Policy Influence on Women’s Careers in the People’s Republic of China 4. Women in Taiwan: Social Status, Education and Employment 5. The Impact of Government Policy on Working Women in Hong Kong 6. The Impact of Government and Family Responsibilities on the Career Development of Working Women in Singapore 7. Women’s Development in Hebei Province, PRC Part III: Conclusions 8. Chinese Women, Half the Sky, Little Ground: Comparative Comments on Chinese Women’s Lives Under Various Government Systems Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook presents specially commissioned original essays on the societal roles and contexts facing women in business and management, the specific career and work-life issues of women in these fields, organizational processes affecting women, and the role of women as leaders in business and management. The essays shed light on the extant structures and practices of society and organizations that constrain or facilitate women's representation, treatment, quality of life, and success.Despite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on women in business and management remains a specialized field without mainstream acceptance within business and management disciplines. The Handbook presents the current state of knowledge about women in business and management and specifies the directions for future research likely to be most constructive for advancing the representation, treatment, quality of life, and success of women who work in these fields. It provides the foundations for improved societal and organizational structures, policies, and relational practices affecting all in business and management. Thus, by enhancing the knowledge base that improves the work and life situations of women, it suggests ways to elevate the societal and organizational systems for all. The Handbook will be an essential reference source for recent advances in research and theory, informing both scholars of organization studies, gender, diversity, and feminism; human resource specialists; and educators of and consultants to business organizations and management.Trade Review'This very impressive Handbook takes established research topics about women in management and treats them in fresh and novel ways. The chapters are intellectually interesting, sound, and provocative, and meet the editors' aspiration to stimulate high quality research on women's experiences in work organizations. I recommend it highly.' -- Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Research on Women in Business and Management Diana Bilimoria and Sandy Kristin Piderit PART I: SOCIETAL ROLES AND CONTEXTS OF WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 1. Myths in the Media: How the News Media Portrays Women in the Workforce Linda M. Dunn-Jensen and Linda K. Stroh 2. Women and Invisible Social Identities: Women as the Other in Organizations Joy E. Beatty 3. (No) Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Managers, Stress and the Barriers to Success Caroline Gatrell and Cary L. Cooper 4. Knowing Lisa? Feminist Analyses of ‘Gender and Entrepreneurship’ Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich and Kristina A. Bourne PART II: CAREER AND WORK–LIFE ISSUES OF WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 5. Career Development of Managerial Women: Attracting and Managing Talent Ronald J. Burke 6. Women and Success: Dilemmas and Opportunities Margaret M. Hopkins and Deborah A. O’Neil 7. Mentoring as a Career Development Tool: Gender, Race and Ethnicity Implications Helen M. Woolnough and Marilyn J. Davidson 8. Integration of Career and Life Mireia Las Heras and Douglas T. Hall 9. Balance, Integration and Harmonization: Selected Metaphors for Managing the Parts and the Whole of Living Sandy Kristin Piderit PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AFFECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 10. Sex, Sex Similarity and Sex Diversity Effects in Teams: The Importance of Situational Factors Laura M. Graves and Gary N. Powell 11. Influence and Inclusion: A Framework for Researching Women’s Advancement in Organizations Diana Bilimoria, Lindsey Godwin and Deborah Dahlen Zelechowski 12. The Effectiveness of Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Women’s Careers Alison M. Konrad PART IV: WOMEN AS LEADERS IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 13. Leadership Style Matters: The Small, but Important, Style Differences Between Male and Female Leaders Alice H. Eagly and Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt 14. Women Advancing onto the Corporate Board Val Singh, Sue Vinnicombe and Siri Terjesen 15. One World: Women Leading and Managing Worldwide Nancy J. Adler Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the gendered nature of leadership and management. The contributors analyse issues such as management development and therapeutic cultures, expectations placed on women in the workplace, managing maternity and the gendered nature of workplace mistakes. The position of women in various sectors and areas of the politico-economic landscape is also considered - topics discussed include: women in the boardroom women in the small to medium size enterprise sector support for female entrepreneurs gender in the public sector gender and the management of the European Commission. The book concludes by stating the business case for greater female representation in leadership and management, outlining some of the nuances in changing gender identities, and positioning the content within current macro political developments. As such, it will strongly appeal to academics and researchers in gender studies, policy studies, social science, business and management. Practitioners and consultants in the equal opportunities field will also find much to interest them in this book.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Zoë van Zwanenberg Introduction: Women in Leadership and Management: Progress Thus Far? Karen Miller PART I: ISSUES, DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES 1. Exploring Gendered Leadership James Collins and Val Singh 2. Challenging Gendered Leadership and Management Education Sharon Mavin, Patricia Bryans and Teresa Waring 3. Gendered Leadership and Management Development: Therapeutic Cultures at Work Elaine Swan 4. Expectations of Women in Leadership and Management – Advancement through Solidarity? Sharon Mavin 5. Managing Maternity Caroline Gatrell 6. The Gendered Nature of Workplace Mistakes Patricia Bryans PART II: BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SECTOR DIMENSIONS 7. Opening the Boardroom Doors to Women Directors Val Singh and Susan Vinnicombe 8. The Smaller Business Context: A Conducive Environment for Women in Management? Susan M. Ogden and Gillian A. Maxwell 9. Female Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities – The Case for Online Coaching Sandra Fielden and Carrianne Hunt 10. Gender and Public Management: Education and Health Sectors Duncan McTavish, Karen Miller and Robert Pyper 11. Gender and Management in the European Commission Ann Stevens and Roger Levy Conclusion: Key Debates and Responses: Business, Societal and Policy Contexts Duncan McTavish Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the involvement of the agro-pastoral al-Hakkamat Baggara women of Darfur in Sudan's recent civil wars and the implications of this for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. WINNER OF THE 2019 AIDOO-SNYDER BOOK PRIZE Al-Hakkamat Baggara women hold an instrumental position in rural Sudan, wielding agency, social and political power. This book uncovers their significant, but widely overlooked, role during the war in Darfur from the 1970s to today's continuing conflict. The author examines the influence they exercised through composing and reciting poems and songs, informal speech and other symbolic acts, and analysestheir impact in the social and political domains. Challenging the pervasive portrayal of women as natural peacebuilders and their roles as passive and submissive, the author highlights how Sudan's state government co-opted al-Hakkamat Baggara women to lobby on its behalf, to rally for war and to advocate for peace. Understanding how they can contribute to the resolution and resettlement processes is vital to sustainable reconciliation and post-conflict transformation of the unstable state. Suad M.E. Musa (PhD) is a Freelance Consultant on gender and women's issues. She worked with the government of Sudan and with CSOs and INGOs in the Horn of Africa and Britain. She alsoworked as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Qatar University.Trade ReviewHawks and Doves won the 2019 Aidoo-Snyder prize awarded by the Women's Caucus of the United States based African Studies Association. It well deserves to be recognised as a valuable contribution to scholarship on Darfur and Sudan more broadly. * SUDAN STUDIES *This is a book that every student of the pastoralist societies of Sudan and Chad should read carefully. Musa does a fantastic job of transcribing and translating the songs of the al-Hakkamat. I was impressed with the breadth of coverage of this significant and singular institution.Musa's book is a welcome addition to the 'chorus' of academic voices in African studies trying to make sense of social voices such as Al-Hakkamat. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface: Conflict in Darfur and the role of Darfuri rural women Ethnicity and Administration in Darfur Conflict in Darfur: Causes and implications Al-Hakkamat Women Local Inter-Ethnic Conflicts Government and Racial Assimilation of Ethnic Groups Liaising with Government New Duties and Obligations Roles in Peace and Reconciliation Urban Identity and Social Change Conclusion Appendix: Chronology of Darfur 1445-2017

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Book SynopsisProvides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH GRACE ABBOTT BOOK PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2022 While there have been many books on South Africa's liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was like for African girls under apartheid, why some chose to join the struggle, and how they navigated the benefits and pitfalls of political activism. These were women who, as teenagers and secondary school students,made an unconventional choice to join student organizations, engage in public protest, and take up arms against the state. They did so against their parents' wishes and in contravention of societal norms that confined girls to the home and made township streets dangerous places for female students. They participated in both non-violent and violent forms of political action, including attending marches and rallies, throwing stones or petrol bombs at police, and punishing suspected informers and other offenders, and even joining underground guerrilla armies. Thousands of these young women were eventually detained, interrogated, and tortured by the apartheid state. At the heart of this book lie the life histories of the female comrades themselves, who in interviews construct themselves as decisive actors in South Africa's liberation struggle. Primarily a work of oral history, this book is not only concerned with what female comrades did, but equally with how these women remember and narrate their time as activists: how they reconstruct their pasts; relate their personal experiences to collective histories of the struggle; and insert themselves into a historical narrative from which they have been excluded. Through exploring these women's memories, this book serves as an important corrective to South Africa's male-centric literature on violence, and provides a new gendered perspective on the wider histories of township politics, activism, and conflict.Trade Review"Where were the girls and young women?" asks Emily Bridger in this powerful and timely revision of the historiography of South Africa's liberation struggle. As Bridger shows so vividly, girls and young women were everywhere in the struggle against apartheid. They were at the school, in the home, at the meeting, on the street, and in the prison cell. They were in the struggle. While standard accounts of the struggle for liberation are content to depict it as a male-only affair, with women playing nothing more than a supportive role, Bridger takes the reader past those sterile accounts to show us women as activists, leaders and risk-takers. But this was no easy task for girls and young women. For girls and women to participate in the struggle for freedom, they had to fight against both their elders and apartheid. They had to fight first against their fathers for the right to be involved in the struggle before they could take on the apartheid state. These girls and women, presented here in their own voices, made an unconventional choice. But they needed to do that to fight for their liberation and to be in a position today to help Bridger re-imagine the history of the liberation struggle. As Bridger shows so brilliantly, this book is not yet another account of what happened in the past; it is much more important than that. It is about girls and young women making history in the past and then narrating that history in the present. A truly remarkable book. * Jacob Dlamini *Emily Bridger's Young Women Against Apartheid is a groundbreaking book [...] based on a remarkable series of interviews that the author conducted with 49 former youth activists (mainly women), allowing rich insights into everyday life within these movements. -- Journal of African HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction African Girlhood under the Apartheid State The School: Becoming a Female Comrade The Home: Negotiating Family, Girlhood and Politics The Meeting: Contesting Gender and Creating a Movement The Street: Gendering Collective Action and Political Violence The Prison Cell: Gender, Trauma and Resistance The Interview: Reflecting on the Struggle Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa. Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and relegated to the sidelines as observers or limited to informal peacebuilding strategies. Yet there is enormous potential in these strategies as women often strive to build bridges across political, ethnic, religious, clan and other differences through alliances arising from common concerns around violence, land, access to resources, and protection of their families and communities, and address sources of conflict at both national and local levels. Drawing on cutting-edge research by scholars and women's rights activists in South Sudan, Sudan, Algeria, northern Nigeria, and Somalia, this book focuses on the consequences of the continuing exclusions of women from peace talks and from post-conflict governance structures. The case studies reveal how peacebuilding is gendered and why this matters in developing meaningful and sustainable approaches to peacebuilding. Examining how women activists have made a difference through informal peacebuilding activities, the contributors explore women's efforts to reshapethe post-conflict context by struggling for legislative and constitutional reforms and by advocating for political representation and political inclusion more generally within peacebuilding processes. They also look at how women have pushed back against the conservative Islamist forces that today dominate much armed conflict in Africa. Suggesting that women's formal participation in peace negotiations is vital in bringing about an end to conflict and preventing its resumption, as well as the one of the most effective strategies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and NGOs involved in development, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The book is the product of a research project on Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.Trade ReviewThis book brings together contributions from nine renowned authors from various academic backgrounds, with a focused interest in African women's issues and broader African women's rights work including activism. ... In tandem with extensive evidence of women's exclusion and their pivotal role in peacebuilding, the book has significantly referenced women's human rights. -- Anthropology Southern AfricaTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Gendering of Peacebuilding in Africa Aili Mari Tripp 2. Women Activists' Informal Peacebuilding Strategies in South Sudan Helen Kezie-Nwoha and Juliet Were 3. 'Ba Sa Jin Mu' (They Don't Listen to Us): Women and Peacebuilding in North-eastern Nigeria Ayesha Imam, Maina Yahi and Hauwa Biu 4. No Going Back: Somali Women's Fight for Political Inclusion Ladan Affi 5. Sudanese Women's Demands for Rights and Representation in the 2019 Revolution Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen 6. The Fight for Democracy and Women's Rights in Algeria: A Long Legacy of Struggle Aili Mari Tripp 7. Conclusions: Women's Peace Activism in Africa Ladan Affi and Liv Tønnessen

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Book SynopsisA key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa. Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and relegated to the sidelines as observers or limited to informal peacebuilding strategies. Yet there is enormous potential in these strategies as women often strive to build bridges across political, ethnic, religious, clan and other differences through alliances arising from common concerns around violence, land, access to resources, and protection of their families and communities, and address sources of conflict at both national and local levels. Drawing on cutting-edge research by scholars and women's rights activists in South Sudan, Sudan, Algeria, northern Nigeria, and Somalia, this book focuses on the consequences of the continuing exclusions of women from peace talks and from post-conflict governance structures. The case studies reveal how peacebuilding is gendered and why this matters in developing meaningful and sustainable approaches to peacebuilding. Examining how women activists have made a difference through informal peacebuilding activities, the contributors explore women's efforts to reshapethe post-conflict context by struggling for legislative and constitutional reforms and by advocating for political representation and political inclusion more generally within peacebuilding processes. They also look at how women have pushed back against the conservative Islamist forces that today dominate much armed conflict in Africa. Suggesting that women's formal participation in peace negotiations is vital in bringing about an end to conflict and preventing its resumption, as well as the one of the most effective strategies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and NGOs involved in development, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The book is the product of a research project on Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Gendering of Peacebuilding in Africa Aili Mari Tripp 2. Women Activists' Informal Peacebuilding Strategies in South Sudan Helen Kezie-Nwoha and Juliet Were 3. 'Ba Sa Jin Mu' (They Don't Listen to Us): Women and Peacebuilding in North-eastern Nigeria Ayesha Imam, Maina Yahi and Hauwa Biu 4. No Going Back: Somali Women's Fight for Political Inclusion Ladan Affi 5. Sudanese Women's Demands for Rights and Representation in the 2019 Revolution Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen 6. The Fight for Democracy and Women's Rights in Algeria: A Long Legacy of Struggle Aili Mari Tripp 7. Conclusions: Women's Peace Activism in Africa Ladan Affi and Liv Tønnessen

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building. For all the effort and attention women across the Global South receive from the international human rights community and from their own governments, human rights frameworks frequently fail to significantly improve the lives of these women or their communities. Taking Kenya as a case study, this book explores the reasons for this, emphasising the need to understand the effects of the legacy of local colonial and postcolonial histories on the production of gendered identities and power in modern Kenyan cultural and political life. Drawing on interviews with women in Nairobi and rural areas around Lake Victoria in Kenya, the author examinestheir access to, and experiences of, civil and political rights and citizenship, beginning with the colonial encounter, following these legacies into modern times, and the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution. In four thematic chapters, Kenny discusses women as victims and objects of cultural violence, the myths of the sorority of African women, women as victims of political and state violence, and women as actors in national political processes. In revealing that international human rights interventions have in fact reproduced the very patterns, structures, and hierarchies which are at the core of women's disenfranchisement and marginalization, the book provides new insights into the difficulties women face in accessing their rights and will be invaluable for scholars and NGOs working in developing states. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Ethnic Identities List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Kenya Colony in British East Africa: A History of Ethno-patriarchy 2. Bodies as Battlefields, Bodies as Weapons: The Colonial Regulation of Women's Bodies 3. Myths of Sorority: Kenyan Women's Community Organisation 4. Everyday Violence: Violence Against Women During Elections and Times of Peace 5. Gendered Citizenship, Politics and Public Space: Women's Participation in Government Conclusion Appendix: Field work, Focus Groups and Interviews Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProvides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH GRACE ABBOTT BOOK PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2022 While there have been many books on South Africa's liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was like for African girls under apartheid, why some chose to join the struggle, and how they navigated the benefits and pitfalls of political activism. These were women who, as teenagers and secondary school students, made an unconventional choice to join student organizations, engage in public protest, and take up arms against the state. They did so against their parents' wishes and in contravention of societal norms that confined girls to the home and made township streets dangerous places for female students. They participated in both non-violent and violent forms of political action, including attending marches and rallies, throwing stones or petrol bombs at police, and punishing suspected informers and other offenders, and even joining underground guerrilla armies. Thousands of these young women were eventually detained, interrogated, and tortured by the apartheid state. At the heart of this book lie the life histories of the female comrades themselves, who in interviews construct themselves as decisive actors in South Africa's liberation struggle. Primarily a work of oral history, this book is not only concerned with what female comrades did, but equally with how these women remember and narrate their time as activists: how they reconstruct their pasts; relate their personal experiences to collective histories of the struggle; and insert themselves into a historical narrative from which they have been excluded. Through exploring these women's memories, this book serves as an important corrective to South Africa's male-centric literature on violence, and provides a new gendered perspective on the wider histories of township politics, activism, and conflict.Trade Review"Where were the girls and young women?" asks Emily Bridger in this powerful and timely revision of the historiography of South Africa's liberation struggle. As Bridger shows so vividly, girls and young women were everywhere in the struggle against apartheid. They were at the school, in the home, at the meeting, on the street, and in the prison cell. They were in the struggle. While standard accounts of the struggle for liberation are content to depict it as a male-only affair, with women playing nothing more than a supportive role, Bridger takes the reader past those sterile accounts to show us women as activists, leaders and risk-takers. But this was no easy task for girls and young women. For girls and women to participate in the struggle for freedom, they had to fight against both their elders and apartheid. They had to fight first against their fathers for the right to be involved in the struggle before they could take on the apartheid state. These girls and women, presented here in their own voices, made an unconventional choice. But they needed to do that to fight for their liberation and to be in a position today to help Bridger re-imagine the history of the liberation struggle. As Bridger shows so brilliantly, this book is not yet another account of what happened in the past; it is much more important than that. It is about girls and young women making history in the past and then narrating that history in the present. A truly remarkable book. * Jacob Dlamini *Emily Bridger's Young Women Against Apartheid is a groundbreaking book [...] based on a remarkable series of interviews that the author conducted with 49 former youth activists (mainly women), allowing rich insights into everyday life within these movements. -- Journal of African HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction African Girlhood under the Apartheid State The School: Becoming a Female Comrade The Home: Negotiating Family, Girlhood and Politics The Meeting: Contesting Gender and Creating a Movement The Street: Gendering Collective Action and Political Violence The Prison Cell: Gender, Trauma and Resistance The Interview: Reflecting on the Struggle Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe number of women entering small business ownership has increased significantly across the world in recent years. These women make a crucial contribution to the economic growth and development of local, national and global economies. Yet, despite their increasing numbers, they have received comparatively little attention from the academic community.This comprehensive and coherent book redresses the balance and provides an up-to-date, theoretical review of this important area of study. A distinguished group of international contributors presents the latest work from the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, India and Singapore, which explores practical initiatives and strategies related to the experiences of women entering small business entrepreneurship.Providing a unique balance between theory and practice, this book will be welcomed by scholars and students of women in management and entrepreneurship as well as policymakers and small business service providers.Trade Review'Sandra Fielden and Marilyn Davidson, already well known for their contributions to gender issues in management, have brought together an absorbing collection of articles that serve to enhance our understanding of a complex area within organisation studies. . . this particular Handbook is not a mere glossary. The editors provide a forum for scholarly works in a specialised area of small business and entrepreneurship research. And the International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship provides a rich resource - collectively, the papers serve to summarise and re-examine much of the relevant research to date. . . an accessible book that follows a logical and coherent pattern. . . the range of this book is significant, and the accomplishment considerable. . . the International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship is a serious contribution to a niche area of entrepreneurship scholarship. The editors and authors have established a place for women in the literature, confirming that gender issues cannot be dismissed as a mere adjunct to the broader field of entrepreneurship study. This collection offers the reader intelligent engagement with the range of research and "ways of knowing" about women and entrepreneurship. Established scholars will find much of interest, and we would also confidently recommend the Handbook to interested newcomers.' -- Robyn Walker and Kate Lewis, Women in Management Review'Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson have put a great deal of work into producing this compilation of scientific studies on women and small business entrepreneurship. In this book, the editors have managed to put together an excellent compilation of studies that look at topics that have aroused the highest interest in this field in recent years. . . It offers a good balance between theory and practice-oriented studies and presents an academic viewpoint that comes extremely close to the real, current situation of this phenomenon. This book therefore provides a useful tool both for the academic community in general and for students, particularly at a postgraduate or doctorate level, who wish to gain a state-of-the-art overview of this business phenomenon. It may also be put to good use by women in management and entrepreneurship as well as policymakers and small service providers, given its high empirical content, supported by a sound empirical framework, which deals with real-life issues for women who wish to start up and manage their own businesses.' -- MarIa angeles Escriba Moreno, Entrepreneurship Management'. . . a truly international, unique and impressive contribution to our knowledge and understanding of issues for females starting, running and growing businesses. . . an important read for anyone with an interest in female entrepreneurship, including researchers, support agents and policymakers. Moreover, this book may be of interest to those concerned with the theoretical development of the study of entrepreneurship.' -- Laura Galloway, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation'. . . this book can be recommended as an insightful and interesting work on women's entrepreneurship from a broad perspective.' -- Wing Lam, International Small Business JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WOMEN INTO ENTERPRISE – PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERISTICS 1. Why Women Enter into Small Business Ownership Muriel Orhan 2. Characteristics of Women Small Business Owners Sherrill R. Taylor and Julia D. Newcomer 3. Analysing Achievement, Motivation and Leadership in Women Entrepreneurs: A New Integration Janice Langan-Fox 4. Career Paths of Women Business Owners Dorothy Perrin Moore PART II: WOMEN INTO ENTERPRISE – CONSTRAINTS AND CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS 5. The Constraints Facing Women Entering Small Business Ownership Leonie V. Still 6. The Financing of Small Businesses – Female Experiences and Strategies Susan Marlow and Dean Patton 7. Succession Planning in Small Firms: Gender Impacts Lynn M. Martin and Chris Martin 8. The Impact of Family Support on the Success of Women Business Owners Nancy Rogers PART III: WOMEN INTO ENTERPRISE – BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS 9. African American Women and Small Business Start-up: Backgrounds, Goals and Strategies used by African American Women in the Initialization and Operation of Small Businesses Katherine Inman and Linda M. Grant 10. The Experiences of Asian Women Entering Business Start-up in the UK Adel J. Dawe and Sandra L. Fielden 11. Ethnicity and Gender in Women’s Businesses in New Zealand Judith K. Pringle and Rachel Wolfgramm 12. Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the USA Yolanda Sarason and Morgan Morrison PART IV: WOMEN INTO ENTERPRISE – A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 13. Women into Enterprise – A European and International Perspective Mary van der Boon 14. Women Entrepreneurs in Singapore Jean Lee 15. The Changing Experience of Australian Women Entrepreneurs Susan Dann and Rebekah Bennett 16. Women Small Business Owners in India P. Sudarsanan Pillai and K.P. Saraswathy Amma 17. ‘I’m Out of Here’: Women Leaving Companies in the USA to Start their Own Businesses Mary C. Mattis PART V: WOMEN INTO ENTERPRISE – FUTURE PERSPECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS 18. Past Journeys: Global Lessons Learned from Entrepreneurial Women in US History Jeannette Oppedisano 19. Women’s Entrepreneurship: Exploring New Avenues Kiran Mirchandani 20. The Way Forward for Women Business Owners Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson Index

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Book SynopsisThis important new book addresses the growing international interest in women on corporate boards of directors. The contributors explore the position of women on corporate boards and future trends in different countries including Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, Jordan, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Tunisia, the UK and the USA. They go on to report the latest research on the experiences and different contributions made by women directors on corporate boards. Issues discussed include: How women directors champion difficult issues and debates How women influence boardroom behaviour The contribution of women directors' human and social capital Gendered experiences and the glass cliff The glass ceiling or a bottleneck? Networking to harness local power for national impact Women on board in best practice companies Whether critical mass makes a difference? Future directions for research. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors brings together the significant international research base with suggestions aimed at individuals aspiring to board membership, women and men currently serving on corporate boards, companies interested in attracting women to their boards, and government bodies wanting to identify the challenges and opportunities facing them as they consider various options for increasing women's representation on corporate boards. This will also be an important book for academics interested in women directors, women's careers at senior levels in organizations and workforce diversity.Trade Review'. . . a thorough and insightful examination of women on corporate boards of directors. . . I recommend the book as a read for practitioners, scholars, educators and others having an interest in human resource management. . . With its wealth of information, Women on Corporate Boards of Directors is a good addition to the extant literature that should represent an affordable value for the buyer.' -- Mark Mone, Personnel Review'After the first two chapters I was so absorbed I was almost reluctant to go to coffee and, as other coffee addicts will know, it is a rare book, especially a rare academic book - that can make one careless in observing the customary coffee break. . . I found that the way this book is written helped me to reflect on much of the gender research that I am involved in currently because the questions raised are so searching and far-reaching. Once again, the chapter authors combine brevity with thoroughness and depth in their examination of the themes, which made this a very rewarding book because it takes you so far in your thinking in just 240 pages. . . I feel energised by the debates that the book has opened up for me. I have done research in this particular area, but I now feel that I have explored different perspectives and new depths and I am grateful to the editors for that.' -- Marianne Tremaine, Gender in Management: An International Journal'This timely collection of case studies and research from top academics around the world, will be of tremendous value to all those engaged in bringing about greater gender diversity in corporate boardrooms.' -- Jacey Graham, Brook Graham LLP'This book provides an excellent overview of contemporary international research and practice relating to women on corporate boards of directors. An important lesson learnt from this book is: rather than having only one or two competent and committed women on the boards of directors, an ideal number of three is not only "the right thing" but also "the bright thing" to do. Why? Research has documented a strong positive correlation between the share of board seats held by women and financial performance.' -- Martin Hilb, University of St. Gallen, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Issues and Opportunities Ronald J. Burke and Susan Vinnicombe PART I: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Women Board Directors in the United States: An Eleven Year Retrospective Lois Joy 2. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The Canadian Perspective Ronald J. Burke and Richard Leblanc 3. The Pipeline to the Board Finally Opens: Women’s Progress on FTSE 100 Boards in the UK Ruth Sealy, Susan Vinnicombe and Val Singh 4. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The French Perspective Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey 5. New Zealand Women Directors: Many Aspire but Few Succeed Rosanne Hawarden and Ralph E. Stablein 6. ‘Glacial at Best’: Women’s Progress on Corporate Boards in Australia Anne Ross-Smith and Jane Bridge 7. The Quota Story: Five Years of Change in Norway Marit Hoel 8. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The Icelandic Perspective Thoranna Jónsdóttir 9. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors in Spanish Listed Companies Celia de Anca 10. Contrasting Positions of Women Directors in Jordan and Tunisia Val Singh PART II: RESEARCH THEMES 11. Championing the Discussion of Tough Issues: How Women Corporate Directors Contribute to Board Deliberations Nancy McInerney-Lacombe, Diana Bilimoria and Paul F. Salipante 12. Women Directors and the ‘Black Box’ of Board Behavior Morten Huse 13. Do Women Still Lack the ‘Right’ Kind of Human Capital for Directorships on the FTSE 100 Corporate Boards? Siri Terjesen, Val Singh and Susan Vinnicombe 14. Examining Gendered Experiences Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Precariousness of the Glass Cliff and the Absence of Rewards Michelle K. Ryan, Clara Kulich, S. Alexander Haslam, Mette D. Hersby and Catherine Atkins 15. On the Progress of Corporate Women: Less a Glass Ceiling than a Bottleneck? Dan R. Dalton and Catherine M. Dalton 16. ION: Organizational Networking to Harness Local Power for National Impact Susan M. Adams, Patricia M. Flynn and Toni G. Wolfman 17. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: Best Practice Companies Heather Foust-Cummings 18. Critical Mass: Does the Number of Women on a Corporate Board Make a Difference? Sumru Erkut, Vicki W. Kramer and Alison M. Konrad Directions for Future Research on Women on Corporate Boards of Directors Diana Bilimoria Index

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Book SynopsisAs women's labor force participation has risen around the globe, scholarly and policy discourse on the ramifications of this employment growth has intensified. This book explores the links between maternal employment and child health using an international perspective that is grounded in economic theory and rigorous empirical methods. Women's labor-market activity affects child health largely because their paid work raises household income, which strengthens families' abilities to finance healthcare needs and nutritious food; however, time away from children could counteract some of the benefits of higher socioeconomic status that spring from maternal employment. New evidence based on data from nine South and Southeast Asian countries illuminates the potential tradeoff between the benefits and challenges families contend with in the face of women's labor-market activity. This book provides new, original evidence on links between maternal employment and children's health using data associated with three indicators of children's nutritional status: birth size, stunting, and wasting. Results support the implementation and enforcement of policy interventions that bolster women's advancement in the labor market and reduce undernutrition among children. Scholars, students, policy makers and all those with an interest in nutritional science, gender, economics of the family, or development economies will find the methodology and original results expounded here both useful and informative. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Women's Employment Around the Globe 3. Conceptual Framework 4. Existing Evidence on Maternal Employment and Child Health 5. Data and Methodology 6. New Results for South and Southeast Asia 7. Conclusion and Policy ImplicationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Women’s Employment Around the Globe 3. Conceptual Framework 4. Existing Evidence on Maternal Employment and Child Health 5. Data and Methodology 6. New Results for South and Southeast Asia 7. Conclusion and Policy Implications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of national and comparative sources and using different theoretical and methodological approaches. The authors address different forms of support (care, financial, emotional) and employ a bi-directional perspective, exploring both giving and receiving across generations. They illustrate that understanding how generations interact in families helps to reformulate the way issues of intergenerational equity are discussed when addressing the redistributive impact of the welfare state through pensions and health services.Encompassing a wide number of European countries as well as migrant groups, this book will greatly appeal to graduate students interested in sociology, social policy and social psychology. Researchers and policy makers in the fields of demography and sociology will also find the book an invaluable resource.Trade Review‘Families, Ageing and Social Policy overflows with fascinating facts about modern families. . . anyone with an interest in the role of the family in ageing societies should consult this volume.' -- Gemma Carney, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life'. . . this book encapsulates the state-of-the-art in the European intergenerational solidarity discourse. Scholars and students alike will find it very informative. For those new to the subject, the development of scholarly work on intergenerational solidarity in Europe is clearly sketched in the introduction. Those already familiar will appreciate the combination of innovative empirical chapters and thought-provoking theoretical chapters.' -- Niels Schenk, Ageing & Society'This book is a welcome contribution to the study of population ageing, social policies and intergenerational relationships in European families. Edited by a leading family sociologist this book offers fresh updates and clear, insightful analyses of demographic development, family arrangements and intergenerational solidarity. Highlighting continuity as well as complexity and change in intergenerational relationships, this timely book is essential reading for all scholars and students interested in the interplay of ageing, family change and policy reform.' -- Arnlaug Leira, University of Oslo, Norway'Families, Ageing and Social Policy is unique in that it uses a generational lens - at the micro-level of individual family members and at the macro-level of cohorts - as a mechanism for capturing the relational dynamics of lives at different points in the life course. It offers a valuable comparative analytic approach, considering both within-family generational ties and cross-cohort linkages as played out within different cultural and social welfare regimes. This book is ostensibly about Europe, but should be required reading for everyone interested in understanding the real-life relationships across generations within families and across population cohorts, as both play out on a moving platform of global transformation in ageing, fertility, immigration, gender roles, and social policy.' -- Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Intergenerational Relations in Families – A Micro-Macro Perspective Chiara Saraceno 1. The Book-ends: Emerging Perspectives on Children and Old People Gunhild O. Hagestad 2. The Family as a Source of Support for Adult Children’s Own Family Projects: European Varieties Martin Kohli and Marco Albertini 3. The Intergenerational Transmission of Home Ownership and the Reproduction of the Familialistic Welfare Regime Teresio Poggio 4. ‘When will I see you again?’ Intergenerational Contacts in Germany Anja Steinbach and Johannes Kopp 5. Intergenerational Relations Within the Family and the State Harald Künemund 6. Personal and Household Caregiving from Adult Children to Parents and Social Stratification Sebastian Sarasa and Sunnee Billingsley 7. The Relationship between Children and their Frail Elderly Parents in Different Care Regimes Wolfgang Keck 8. The Effects of Separation and Divorce on Parent–Child Relationships in Ten European Countries Matthijs Kalmijn 9. Intergenerational Contact and Support: The Long-Term Effects of Marital Instability in Italy Marco Albertini and Chiara Saraceno 10. The Intergenerational Care Potential of Dutch Older Adults in 1992 and 2002 Theo van Tilburg and Suzan van der Pas 11. Intergenerational Solidarity and Social Structures in Sweden: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Public and Private Support Patterns Ulla Björnberg and Hans Ekbrand 12. Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers Among Immigrants in France: A Comparative Perspective Claudine Attias-Donfut and François-Charles Wolff 13. Reliable Bonds? A Comparative Perspective of Intergenerational Support Patterns Among Migrant Families in Germany Helen Baykara-Krumme Index

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Book SynopsisWomen?s entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business have advanced significantly over the last decade. Yet, challenges remain. Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges that women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses and how these may be addressed. This volume is rooted in research and considers growth challenges, provoking thought and enriching the current literature on gender and entrepreneurship. Part I highlights how contextual factors, and especially social and familial settings of entrepreneurs, have a differential impact on men and women. Part II examines strategies, constraints and enablers of growth and performance. The authors aptly demonstrate that a well-focused gender lens is necessary to better explain the phenomenon of women?s entrepreneurship. Extending previous studies about women?s entrepreneurship, this volume is unique in its application of research from the Diana Project, a path-breaking initiative dating from 1999 to study female entrepreneurial success. Contributions from an international cast of authors make this a comprehensive and broadly appealing reference work.Lending a fresh perspective to the field, this book will serve not only as a learning tool and teaching implement but will cultivate further progress in women?s entrepreneurship. As such, it is ideally suited for students and scholars of entrepreneurship and women?s studies, policy-makers, economic development analysts and gender researchers.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Women Entrepreneurs and Growth Candida G. Brush, Anne de Bruin, Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Colette Henry PART I: CONTEXTUAL FACTORS 2. Entrepreneurship, Gender and Job Creation: European Dynamics Marc Cowling 3. Gender and Entrepreneurship: Revealing Constructions and Underlying Processes – The Case of Norway Gry Agnete Alsos, Ragnhild Steen Jensen and Elisabet Ljunggren 4. Female Leadership and Company Profitability Annu Kotiranta, Anne Kovalainen and Petri Rouvinen 5. Influences on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Ireland and the Czech Republic Lorna Treanor and Colette Henry 6. The Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Transition Context Friederike Welter and David Smallbone 7. Women Empowering Women: Female Entrepreneurs and Home-based Producers in Jordan Haya Al-Dajani and Sara Carter 8. Exploring the Heterogeneity of Women’s Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Family Structure and Family Policies in Europe and the US Vartuhí Tonoyan, Michelle Budig and Robert Strohmeyer PART II: GROWTH STRATEGIES AND ENABLERS 9. The Work–Family Interface Strategies of Male and Female Entrepreneurs: Are There Any Differences? Jennifer E. Jennings, Karen D. Hughes and P. Devereaux Jennings 10. An Integrated View of Gender, Finance and Entrepreneurial Capital: Theory, Practice and Policy Eleanor Shaw, Sara Carter and Wing Lam 11. Growing a High-tech Business: Gender, Perceptions and Experiences in Northern Ireland Frances M. Hill, Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison 12. Male and Female Entrepreneurs’ Networks at Four Venture Stages Kim Klyver and Siri Terjesen 13. Gender, Opportunity Recognition and the Role of Internal Networks Rodney Farr-Wharton and Yvonne Brunetto 14. ‘All by Myself’: The Female High-technology Entrepreneur Maura McAdam and Susan Marlow 15. Physician as Feminist Entrepreneur: The Gendered Nature of Venture Creation and the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre Barbara Orser and Joanne Leck 16. Mentoring Women Entrepreneurs in the Russian Emerging Market Jill Kickul, Mark D. Griffiths, Lisa K. Gundry and Tatiana Iakovleva 17. Gender Differences in the Growth Aspirations and Technology Orientation of Slovenian Entrepreneurs Karin Širec, Polona Tominc and Miroslav Rebernik Index

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Book SynopsisThis informative Handbook examines successful women small business owners in both developed and emergent countries around the globe and, in particular, focuses on women entrepreneur success stories.The contributors expertly identify the issues that underpin the success of women small business owners around the globe. Each chapter provides an up-to-date, country-specific review of women?s position in employment and small business ownership and addresses the structural and contextual barriers. They also highlight two cases studies about successful women business owners, and consider strategies relating to the development of women?s business ownership by exploring practical initiatives that have worldwide transferability.International Research Handbook on Successful Women Entrepreneurs will prove essential reading for students and academics in the fields of entrepreneurship, international business and gender studies. It will also be of invaluable interest to policy-makers, government officials, and those in traditional markets who wish to understand the nature of small business ownership for women in developing and emerging countries.Contributors: T. Agarwala, M.J. Davidson, M.R. Evald, S.L. Fielden, R.T. Harrison, K.D. Hughes, J. Hussain, G. nal, D. Jamali, M. Karatas-Özkan, K. Klyver, L. Levin, K. Lewis, N.O. Madichie, S. Marlow, B. Mathur-Helm, M.C. Mattis, M. McAdam, C. Millman, R. Naz, S.L. Nielsen, M.F. Özbilgin, R.D. Pathak, C. Reis, J.M. Scott, A. Shuvalova, Y. Sidani, G. Singh, A.E. Smith-Hunter, J. Syed, M. Tremaine, G. WoodTrade ReviewThis title is a welcome addition to the study of women entrepreneurs and small-business owners, a field that has received little scholarly attention. Given the growth of women-owned businesses around the world, it is a timely publication for scholars and students of international business and entrepreneurship. Policymakers interested in women's small-business ownership, as well as potential or actual women business owners, should also read this book.' --Melissa Guy, Feminist Collections'This collection on successful women entrepreneurs is timely. Entrepreneurship and small business creation and management are vital to tackle the current worldwide economic recession. Various stakeholders - policy-makers, academics, budding entrepreneurs - will find this book of interest. A number of country-level initiatives that serve to support women s entrepreneurship are offered that can work almost anywhere. The focus on successful women entrepreneurs is valuable in showing that women can do it and how they achieved their successes. Readers will find the women's voices reported here to be inspirational.' --Ronald J. Burke, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson 2. Australia Glenice Wood 3. Brazil Andrea E. Smith- Hunter 4. Canada Karen D. Hughes 5. China Jonathan M. Scott, Javed Hussain, Richard T. Harrison and Cindy Millman 6. Denmark Suna Løwe Nielsen, Kim Klyver and Majbritt Rostgaard Evald 7. Fiji Gurmeet Singh, Raghuvar Dutt Pathak and Rafia Naz 8. India Tanuja Agarwala 9. Lebanon Dima Jamali and Yusuf Sidani 10. New Zealand Marianne Tremaine and Kate Lewis 11. Pakistan Jawad Syed 12. Portugal Christina Reis 13. Russia Anna Shuvalova 14. South Africa Babita Mathur-Helm 15. Turkey Mine Karataş-Özkan, Gözde İnal and Mustafa F. Özbilgin 16. United Arab Emirates Nnamdi O. Madichie 17. United Kingdom Susan Marlow and Maura McAdam 18. United States of America Mary C. Mattis and Leslie Levin Index

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence – both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women’s mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women’s lives throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy. Based on feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between gender theory and the lived realities of women’s daily lives and will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social sciences.Trade Review“Utterly timely. Challenging discourses of post feminism, this book returns us to the voices of women on the lived realities of their everyday lives. Highly recommended.” Professor Kathleen Lennon, University of Hull??"A well written and timely book on the important issue of women's identity and mental illness, across the life course, which will interest those researching in diverse disciplines.?" Dr Victoria Robinson, Sheffield UniversityTable of ContentsGendering, inequalities, and the limits of policy; Gendering women’s minds: identity, confidence and mental wellbeing; Gendering girls, gendering boys: identities in process; Gendering and engendering violence in women’s everyday lives; Gendering education: the paradox of success versus status; Gendering reproduction: women’s experiences of motherhood and mental wellbeing; Gendering women’s labour: status, esteem and inequality in paid and unpaid work; Conclusions: The embodied infrastructure of women’s spaces, gender awareness, and the capacity for change

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence – both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women’s mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women’s lives throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy. Based on feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between gender theory and the lived realities of women’s daily lives and will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social sciences.Trade Review“Utterly timely. Challenging discourses of post feminism, this book returns us to the voices of women on the lived realities of their everyday lives. Highly recommended.” Professor Kathleen Lennon, University of Hull??"A well written and timely book on the important issue of women's identity and mental illness, across the life course, which will interest those researching in diverse disciplines.?" Dr Victoria Robinson, Sheffield UniversityTable of ContentsGendering, inequalities, and the limits of policy; Gendering women’s minds: identity, confidence and mental wellbeing; Gendering girls, gendering boys: identities in process; Gendering and engendering violence in women’s everyday lives; Gendering education: the paradox of success versus status; Gendering reproduction: women’s experiences of motherhood and mental wellbeing; Gendering women’s labour: status, esteem and inequality in paid and unpaid work; Conclusions: The embodied infrastructure of women’s spaces, gender awareness, and the capacity for change

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Book SynopsisSince the enactment of the gender equality laws in the USA in the mid 1970s, scholars and policy makers have placed much focus on the situation of women within management. In this authoritative collection, the editors have brought together seminal articles by leading academics to demonstrate that there continue to be differences between equal opportunities policies and work place practices. Areas covered in this excellent two-volume set include career breaks and the gender pay gap, women and work?life integration, the glass ceiling, and gender and diversity. This topical collection will be of immense value to scholars researching women in management and gender in management for many years to come.Trade Review‘The two volume set serves as an effective reader on women and management scholarship. This compilation would be useful as supplementary material for a doctoral level course on gender and management, as a good introduction to this literature stream for academics with a budding interest in the field, or even as a primer on academic writings on gender for human resource management professionals. In short, this two volume collection is most useful as a starting point on gender research in management.’ -- Diana Bilimoria and Chantal van Esch, Sex Roles‘Because of its abundant relevant references this book should be the first stop for any advanced undergraduate and postgraduate student planning research in related areas, but due to its price, it is not meant to feature on students' own must have lists. Nevertheless, I hope it will find a place in numerous university libraries and become as widely used as it deserves to be.’ -- Gender in ManagementTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Caroline Gatrell, Cary Cooper and Ellen Ernst Kossek PART I WOMEN’S COMMITMENT AND MANAGEMENT 1. Jay Ginn, Sara Arber, Julia Brannen, Angela Dale, Shirley Dex, Peter Elias, Peter Moss, Jan Pahl, Ceridwen Roberts and Jill Rubery (1996), ‘Feminist Fallacies?: A Reply to Hakim on Women’s Employment’ 2. Catherine Hakim (1995), ‘Five Feminist Myths About Women’s Employment’ 3. Eleanor Hamilton (2006), ‘Whose Story Is It Anyway? Narrative Accounts of the Roles of Women in Founding and Establishing Family Businesses’ 4. Karen S. Lyness and Michael K. Judiesch (2001), ‘Are Female Managers Quitters? The Relationships of Gender, Promotions, and Family Leaves of Absence to Voluntary Turnover’ PART II CAREER BREAKS AND THE GENDER PAY GAP 5. Lynda J. Ames (1995), ‘Fixing Women’s Wages: The Effectiveness of Comparable Worth Policies’ 6. Karen Lee Ashcraft (1999), ‘Managing Maternity Leave: A Qualitative Analysis of Temporary Executive Succession’ 7. Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn (2000), ‘Gender Differences in Pay’ 8. Michelle J. Budig and Paula England (2001), ‘The Wage Penalty for Motherhood’ 9. Philip N. Cohen and Matt L. Huffman (2007), ‘Working for the Women? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap’ 10. Jerry A. Jacobs (1992), ‘Women’s Entry into Management: Trends in Earnings, Authority and Values Among Salaried Managers’ 11. Joy A. Schneer and Frieda Reitman (1990), ‘Effects of Employment Gaps on Careers of M.B.A.’s: More Damaging for Men than for Women?’ PART III WOMEN AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE 12. Lotte Bailyn (2004), ‘Time in Careers - Careers in Time’ 13. William T. Bielby and Denise D. Bielby (1989), ‘Family Ties: Balancing Commitments to Work and Family in Dual Earner Households’ 14. Suzan Lewis and Cary L. Cooper (1999), ‘The Work-Family Research Agenda in Changing Contexts’ 15. Karen Miller, Mike Greyling, Cary Cooper, Luo Lu, Kate Sparks and Paul E. Spector (2000), ‘Occupational Stress and Gender: A Cross-Cultural Study’ 16. Jeffrey R. Edwards and Nancy P. Rothbard (2000), ‘Mechanisms Linking Work and Family: Clarifying the Relationships Between Work and Family Constructs’ 17. Alison M. Konrad and Robert Mangel (2000), ‘The Impact of Work-Life Programs on Firm Productivity’ 18. Ellen Ernst Kossek and Cynthia Ozeki (1998), ‘Work-Family Conflict, Policies, and the Job-Life Satisfaction Relationship: A Review and Directions for Organizational Behavior-Human Resources Research’ 19. Ellen Ernst Kossek, Jason A. Colquitt and Raymond A. Noe (2001), ‘Caregiving Decisions, Well-Being, and Performance: The Effects of Place and Provider as a Function of Dependent Type and Work-Family Climates’ PART IV WOMEN’S CAREER PROGRESSION AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT 20. Bonita L. Betters-Reed and Lynda L. Moore (1995), ‘Shifting the Management Development Paradigm for Women’ 21. Alice H. Eagly and Steven J. Karau (2002), ‘Role Congruity Theory of Prejudice Toward Female Leaders’ 22. Gedaliahu H. Harel (In Memoriam), Shay S. Tzafrir and Yehuda Baruch (2003), ‘Achieving Organizational Effectiveness Through Promotion of Women into Managerial Positions: HRM Practice Focus’ 23. Belle Rose Ragins and John L. Cotton (1999), ‘Mentor Functions and Outcomes: A Comparison of Men and Women in Formal and Informal Mentoring Relationships’ 24. Carole Elliott and Valerie Stead (2008), ‘Learning from Leading Women’s Experience: Towards a Sociological Understanding’ 25. Sharon Mavin (2008), ‘Queen Bees, Wannabees and Afraid to Bees: No More ‘Best Enemies’ for Women in Management?’ Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN’S CAREERS 1. Nancy J. Adler (1984), ‘Women Do Not Want International Careers: And Other Myths About International Management’ 2. Paula M. Caligiuri and Rosalie L. Tung (1999), ‘Comparing the Success of Male and Female Expatriates from a US-Based Multinational Company’ 3. Virginia E. Schein (2001), ‘A Global Look at Psychological Barriers to Women’s Progress in Management’ 4. Mina Westman, Dalia Etzion and Etty Gattenio (2008), ‘International Business Travels and the Work-Family Interface: A Longitudinal Study’ 5. Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2005), ‘A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap’ PART II THE GLASS CEILING 6. David A. Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen, Seth Ovadia and Reeve Vanneman (2001), ‘The Glass Ceiling Effect’ 7. Terry C. Blum, Dail L. Fields and Jodi S. Goodman (1994), ‘Organization-Level Determinants of Women in Management’ 8. Adelina Broadbridge (1998), ‘Barriers in the Career Progression of Retail Managers’ 9. Phyllis Tharenou, Shane Latimer and Denise Conroy (1994), ‘How Do You Make It to the Top? An Examination of Influences on Women’s and Men’s Managerial Advancement’ 10. Gary N. Powell and D. Anthony Butterfield (1994), ‘Investigating the “Glass Ceiling” Phenomenon: An Empirical Study of Actual Promotions to Top Management’ 11. Savita Kumra and Susan Vinnicombe (2008), ‘A Study of the Promotion to Partner Process in a Professional Services Firm: How Women are Disadvantaged’ PART III THE BODY AND MANAGEMENT 12. Joan Acker (1990), ‘Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations’ 13. Joanna Brewis, Mark P. Hampton and Stephen Linstead (1997), ‘Unpacking Priscilla: Subjectivity and Identity in the Organization of Gendered Appearance’ 14. Jennifer Cunningham and Therese Macan (2007), ‘Effects of Applicant Pregnancy on Hiring Decisions and Interview Ratings’ 15. Gavin Dick and Beverley Metcalfe (2007), ‘The Progress of Female Police Officers?: An Empirical Analysis of Organisational Commitment and Tenure Explanations in Two UK Police Forces’ 16. Caroline Gatrell (2007), ‘A Fractional Commitment? Part-time Work and the Maternal Body’ 17. Kathryn Haynes (2008), ‘(Re)Figuring Accounting and Maternal Bodies: The Gendered Embodiment of Accounting Professionals’ 18. Elaine Swan (2005), ‘On Bodies, Rhinestones, and Pleasures: Women Teaching Managers’ PART IV GENDER AND DIVERSITY 19. Jennifer A. Chatman and Charles A. O’Reilly (2004), ‘Asymmetric Reactions to Work Group Sex Diversity Among Men and Women’ 20. Alice H. Eagly, Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt and Marloes L. van Engen (2003), ‘Transformational, Transactional, and Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles: A Meta-Analysis Comparing Women and Men’ 21. Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Debra Meyerson, Stella Nkomo and Maureen Scully (2003), ‘Interpreting Silence and Voice in the Workplace: A Conversation About Tempered Radicalism Among Black and White Women Researchers’ 22. Robin Ely and Irene Padavic (2007), ‘A Feminist Analysis of Organizational Research on Sex Differences’ 23. Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson (2001), ‘Stress and Gender in Unemployed Female and Male Managers’ 24. Susan Gill and Marilyn J. Davidson (2001) ‘Problems and Pressures Facing Lone Mothers in Management and Professional Occupations – A Pilot Study’ 25. Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights (1993), ‘Management, Masculinity and Manipulation: From Paternalism to Corporate Strategy in Financial Services in Britain’ 26. Joel Lefkowitz (1994), ‘Sex-Related Differences in Job Attitudes and Dispositional Variables: Now You See Them,…’ 27. Barbara F. Reskin and Debra Branch McBrier (2000), ‘Why Not Ascription? Organizations’ Employment of Male and Female Managers’ 28. Linda K. Stroh, Jeanne M. Brett and Anne H. Reilly (1992), ‘All The Right Stuff: A Comparison of Female and Male Managers’ Career Progression’ 29. Angela M. Young and David Hurlic (2007) ‘Gender Enactment at Work: The Importance of Gender and Gender-related Behavior to Person-Organizational Fit and Career Decisions’ Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law's engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches and perspectives. Families, Care-giving and Paid Work offers an original approach to a very topical area. Not only does it consider the limitations of law in relation to the regulation of care-giving and workplace relationships, but it is premised upon a reconsideration of law's potential and engages with suggested strategies for bringing about long-term social change. Offering a range of analyses, this book will strongly appeal to policy makers and practitioners involved with promoting work and family issues, students in labor and employment studies, law and social policy, as well as academics interested in work and family reconciliation issues, or gender and law issues. Contributors: N. Busby, T. Callus, E. Caracciolo di Torella, S. Charlesworth, R. Guerrina, R. Horton, G. James, C. Lyonette, S. Macpherson, A. Masselot, O. Smith, M. Weldon-JohnsTrade Review'Balancing paid work and family life remains a significant challenge; indeed, the challenges are intensifying as economic austerity threatens the pursuit of gender equality. This excellent book provides extensive justifications for laws and policies which encourage and facilitate the reconciliation of paid work, family life and care-giving. It provides a wealth of data, from a number of jurisdictions, and examines recent trends. It is vital that this area of law and policy is protected and developed and this book plays an important role in that process.' - Clare McGlynn, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Nicole Busby and Grace James PART I: WORK–FAMILY CHALLENGES 1. Reconciling Employment and Family Care-giving: A Gender Analysis of Current Challenges and Future Directions for UK Policy Suzi Macpherson 2. Atypical Working in Europe and the Impact on Work–Family Reconciliation Clare Lyonette 3. Is There a Fundamental Right to Reconcile Work and Family Life in the EU? Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella PART II: NATIONAL APPROACHES AND CROSS-NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 4. The Rights and Realities of Balancing Work and Family Life in New Zealand Annick Masselot 5. Law’s Response to the Reconciliation of Work and Care: The Australian Case Sara Charlesworth 6. Parental Leave Rights in Italy: Reconciling Gender Ideologies with the Demands of Europeanization Roberta Guerrina 7. Comparative Lessons on Work–Family Conflict – Swedish Parental Leave versus American Parental Leave Michelle Weldon-Johns PART III: ACCOMMODATING CARE 8. Care-giving and Reasonable Adjustment in the UK Rachel Horton 9. Reconciling Care-giving and Work in Ireland: The Contribution of Protection Against Family Status Discrimination Olivia Smith PART IV: CHANGING FOCUS 10. Child Welfare and Work–Family Reconciliation Policies: Lessons from Family Law Grace James and Thérèse Callus 11. Unpaid Care-giving and Paid Work Within a Rights Framework: Towards Reconciliation? Nicole Busby Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1990s witnessed a surge of feminist human rights scholarship and activism in international law which has shaped jurisprudential and institutional developments, yet gender issues and human rights still remain a challenging and evolving field of study. In this collection, Professor Otto brings together seminal works which are united in their aim of questioning the existing gendered hierarchies of power and inequality and the purportedly natural foundations that have justified oppressive gender stereotypes. Included works cover, among others, the history and early developments of women's rights, structural critiques of international human rights law, recognizing new human rights, linking women's economic inequality and human rights and thinking beyond the duality of gender.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Dianne Otto PART I: GENEALOGIES: HISTORIES OF STRUGGLE 1. Arvonne S. Fraser (1999), ‘Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women’s Human Rights’ 2. Felice D. Gaer (1998), ‘And Never the Twain Shall Meet? The Struggle to Establish Women’s Rights as International Human Rights’ 3. Karen Engle (1992), ‘International Human Rights and Feminism: When Discourses Meet’ 4. Dianne Otto (2006), ‘Lost in Translation: Re-Scripting the Sexed Subjects of International Human Rights Law’ PART II: WOMEN’S NEEDS OR WOMEN’S RIGHTS? EARLY NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 5. Johannes Morsink (1991), ‘Women's Rights in the Universal Declaration’ 6. Natalie Kaufman Hevener (1978), ‘International Law and the Status of Women: An Analysis of International Legal Instruments Related to the Treatment of Women’ 7. Laura Reanda (1981), ‘Human Rights and Women’s Rights: The United Nations Approach’ 8. Helen Bequaert Holmes (1983), ‘A Feminist Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 9. Noreen Burrows (1985), ‘The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’ 10. Andrew C. Byrnes (1989), ‘The “Other” Human Rights Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’ 11. Abdullahi An-Na’im (1987), ‘The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context’ PART III: PUBLIC/PRIVATE, LOCAL/GLOBAL: STRUCTURAL CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 12. Celina Romany (1993), ‘Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law’ 13. Hilary Charlesworth (1994), ‘What are “Women’s International Human Rights”?’ 14. J. Oloka-Onyango and Sylvia Tamale (1995), ‘“The Personal Is Political,” or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism’ 15. V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi (1998), ‘Are Women Human? It’s not an Academic Question’ 16. Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin (1993), ‘The Gender of Jus Cogens’ 17. Karen Engle (1993), ‘After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women’s Rights’ 18. L. Amede Obiora (1997), ‘Feminism, Globalization, and Culture: After Beijing’ 19. Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright (1993), ‘The Hunger Trap: Women, Food, and Self-Determination’ 20. Anne Orford (1998), ‘Contesting Globalization: A Feminist Perspective on the Future of Human Rights’ Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction to all three volumes by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I: WHICH WOMEN? WHOSE RIGHTS? BUILDING MULTICULTURAL AND INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS 1. Isabelle R. Gunning (1991–2), ‘Arrogant Perception, World-Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries’ 2. Ratna Kapur (2002), ‘The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the “Native” Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics’ 3. Radhika Coomaraswamy (2002–2003), ‘Identity Within: Cultural Relativism, Minority Rights and the Empowerment of Women’ 4. Penelope Andrews (1997), ‘Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress within the International Human Rights Framework’ 5. Adila Abusharaf (2006), ‘Women in Islamic Communities: The Quest for Gender Justice Research’ 6. Tracy E. Higgins (1996), ‘Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and Human Rights’ 7. Shefali Desai (1999), ‘Hearing Afghan Women’s Voices: Feminist Theory’s Re-Conceptualization of Women’s Human Rights’ 8. Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’ 9. Johanna E. Bond (2003), ‘International Intersectionality: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Women’s International Human Rights Violations’ PART II: WOMEN ARE HUMAN TOO: RECONCEPTUALIZING MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS 10. Rhonda Copelon (1994), ‘Recognizing the Egregious in the Everyday: Domestic Violence as Torture’ 11. Alice Edwards (2006), ‘The “Feminizing” of Torture under International Human Rights Law’ 12. Giulia Paglione (2006), ‘Domestic Violence and Housing Rights: A Reinterpretation of the Right to Housing’ 13. Leilani Farha (2002), ‘Is There a Woman in the House? Re/conceiving the Human Right to Housing’ 14. Rebecca J. Cook (1994-1995), ‘Human Rights and Reproductive Self-Determination’ 15. Fleur van Leeuwen (2007), ‘A Woman's Right To Decide? The United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights of Women, and Matters of Human Reproduction’ 16. Anne Gallagher (1997), ‘Ending the Marginalization: Strategies for Incorporating Women into the United Nations Human Rights System’ 17. Hilary Charlesworth (2005), ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations’ PART III: WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: RECOGNIZING NEW HUMAN RIGHTS 18. Charlotte Bunch (1990), ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights’ 19. Alice M. Miller (2004), ‘Sexuality, Violence against Women, and Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection’ 20. Lisa A. Crooms (1999), ‘Using a Multi-Tiered Analysis to Reconceptualize Gender-Based Violence against Women as a Matter of International Human Rights’ 21. Sarah Y. Lai and Regan E. Ralph (1995), ‘Female Sexual Autonomy and Human Rights’ 22. Yasmin Tambiah (1998), ‘Realizing Women’s Sexual Rights: Challenges in South Asia’ 23. Elizabeth Sepper (2008), ‘Confronting the “Sacred and Unchangeable”: The Obligation to Modify Cultural Patterns Under the Women’s Discrimination Treaty’ 24. Simone Cusack and Rebecca J. Cook (2009), ‘Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW’ Volume III Acknowledgements An Introduction to all three volumes by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I: PURSUING IMPLEMENTATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL ACTIVISM 1. Afra Afsharipour (1999), ‘Empowering Ourselves: The Role of Women’s NGOs in the Enforcement of the Women’s Convention’ 2. Diane Elson and Jasmine Gideon (2004), ‘Organising for Women’s Economic and Social Rights: How useful is the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?’ 3. Renu Mandhane (2004), ‘The Use of Human Rights Discourse to Secure Women’s Interests: Critical Analysis of the Implications’ 4. Cheah Wui Ling (2009), ‘Walking the Long Road in Solidarity and Hope: A Case Study of the “Comfort Women” Movement’s Deployment of Human Rights Discourse’ 5. Doris E. Buss (2004), ‘Finding the Homosexual in Women’s Rights: The Christian Right in International Politics’ 6. James Gathii (2006), ‘Exporting Culture Wars’ 7. Sari Kouvo (2008), ‘A “Quick and Dirty” Approach to Women’s Emancipation and Human Rights?’ 8. Sally Engle Merry (2003), ‘Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women’s Human Rights to Protection from Violence’ PART II: LINKING WOMEN’S NEEDS AND RIGHTS: WOMEN, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT 9. Dianne Otto (1996), ‘Holding up Half the Sky, but for Whose Benefit?: A Critical Analysis of the Fourth World Conference on Women’ 10. Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux (2006), ‘The Politics of Rights – Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis: An Introduction’ 11. Kerry Rittich (2003), ‘Engendering Development/Marketing Equality’ 12. Celestine I. Nyamu (2000), ‘How Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries?’ 13. Rachel Rebouché (2006), ‘Labor, Land, and Women’s Rights in Africa: Challenges for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women’ 14. Ambreena Manji (2003), ‘Remortgaging Women’s Lives: The World Bank’s Land Agenda in Africa’ 15. Juanita Elias (2007), ‘Women Workers and Labour Standards: The Problem of “Human Rights”’ 16. Margaret L. Satterthwaite (2005), ‘Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers’ 17. Janie Chuang (1998), ‘Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts’ PART III: THE QUESTION OF MEN AND OTHER GENDER IDENTITIES: BEYOND THE GENDER DUALITY 18. Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz (1998), ‘Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing’ 19. Kirsten Anderson (2008), ‘Violence Against Women: State Responsibilities in International Human Rights Law to Address Harmful “Masculinities”’ 20. Kumaralingam Amirthalingam (2005), ‘Women's Rights, International Norms, and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives’ 21. Sandesh Sivakumaran (2005), ‘Male/Male Rape and the “Taint” of Homosexuality’ 22. Brenda Cossman, Dan Danielsen, Janet Halley and Tracy Higgins (2003), ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Power: Is Feminist Theory Enough?’ 23. Aeyal M. Gross (2008), ‘Sex, Love, and Marriage: Questioning Gender and Sexuality Rights in International Law’ 24. Darren Rosenblum (2011), ‘Unisex CEDAW, or What’s Wrong with Women’s Rights’ 25. Brenda Cossman (2002), ‘Gender Performance, Sexual Subjects and International Law’ 26. Moya Lloyd (2007), ‘(Women’s) Human Rights: Paradoxes and Possibilities’

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Book SynopsisWomen's sports have received much less attention from economists than from other social scientists. This Handbook fills that gap with a comprehensive economic analysis of women's sports. It also analyzes how the behavior and treatment of female athletes reflect broad economic forces.Contributors to this volume use current theoretical models and econometric tools to examine the legal, social, and economic forces that affect the experiences of female athletes. They address such traditional topics as discrimination against female athletes and coaches and the effect of athletic events on the economies of host countries. They also apply theory and estimation to new settings, such as how women respond to tournaments in skiing and figure skating or how the growing dominance of Korean women on the LPGA tour is a form of immigration.This groundbreaking book is a valuable resource for professors, students, and researchers in sports economics, sports management, and women's studies.Contributors: S.L. Averett, D.J. Berri, R. Booth, R.W. Brown, X. Che, D. Coates, J. Congdon-Hohman, S.M. Estelle, B.E. Fairweather, B. Frick, K.F. Gilsdorf, B.R. Humphreys, R.T. Jewell, J.-H. Kang, A.C. Krautmann, Y.H. Lee, Y. Lee, E.M. Leeds, M.A. Leeds, R. Levy, V.A. Matheson, S.S. Montgomery, I. Park, M.D. Robinson, R.M. Rodenberg, F. Scheel, S. Shmanske, J. Stull, V.A. Sukhatme, J. Treber, P. von AllmenTrade ReviewLeeds and Leeds have filled a gaping hole in sports economics with this revealing collection of essays. The economics of women in sports has been too long neglected. By covering everything from women as sports spectators, to women as participants in individual and team sports at the collegiate and professional levels, to women's sports internationally, Title IX, and women's differential response to incentives, this volume not only demonstrates that there is much fertile ground to be studied, but also that the subject matter is both interesting and important. --Andrew Zimbalist, Smith CollegeIn the Handbook on the Economics of Women in Sports, Leeds and Leeds put together an impressive list of heavy hitters in the sociology and economics literature on sports to produce a tour de force volume. The entire spectrum of international perspectives is covered, from US, Korean, and Australian sports to world competition at the highest level of the Olympics and international championships. Whether your interest is attendance at women's events, performance and rewards in women's pro sports, gender issues in US college sports, or international performance and how women compete, this handbook is a must read for any serious fan, and for all serious scholars interested in the impacts of being female on sports performance and competitiveness. --Rodney Fort, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Women, Sports, and Economics Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds PART I: WOMEN AND SPORT IN CONTEXT 1. Women’s Attendance at Sports Events Sarah S. Montgomery and Michael D. Robinson 2. Participation in Women’s Sport in Australia Ross Booth and Michael A. Leeds 3. Individual Decision-making in a Social Context: The Sociological Determinants of Female Sports Participation Judith Stull PART II: PERFORMANCE AND REWARDS IN WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL SPORTS 4. Gender and Skill Convergence in Professional Golf Stephen Shmanske 5. Gender Differences in Responses to Incentives in Sports: Some New Results from Golf Keith F. Gilsdorf and Vasant A. Sukhatme 6. Earnings and Performance in Women’s Skiing XiaoGang Che and Brad R. Humphreys 7. Understanding the WNBA On and Off the Court David J. Berri and Anthony C. Krautmann 8. The Goals and Impacts of Age Restrictions in Sports Ryan M. Rodenberg PART III: WOMEN IN INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS 9. The Economics of Title IX Compliance in Intercollegiate Athletics Susan L. Averett and Sarah M. Estelle 10. Revenues and Subsidies in Collegiate Sports: An Analysis of NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Robert W. Brown and R. Todd Jewell 11. The Impact of Increased Academic Standards of Proposition 16 on the Graduation Rates of Women and Men in Division IA Intercollegiate Athletics B. Erin Fairweather 12. Gender Differences in Competitive Balance in Intercollegiate Basketball Jaret Treber, Rachel Levy and Victor A. Matheson 13. Coaching Women and Women Coaching: Pay Differentials in the Title IX Era Peter von Allmen PART IV: WOMEN IN OLYMPIC AND INTERNATIONAL SPORTS 14. Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence from 100m Races Bernd Frick and Friedrich Scheel 15. Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Economic Contests? The Case of Men’s and Ladies’ Figure Skating Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds 16. International Women’s Soccer and Gender Inequality: Revisited Joshua Congdon-Hohman and Victor A. Matheson 17. The Economic Impact of the Women’s World Cup Dennis Coates 18. An Economic Analysis of the Sudden Influx of Korean Female Golfers into the LPGA Young Hoon Lee, Ilhyeok Park, Joon-Ho Kang and Younghan Lee 19. Media Coverage and Pay in Women’s Basketball and Netball in Australia Ross Booth Index

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Book SynopsisMapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid personal accounts of their experiences as women writing during a pivotal period in the history of Ireland. With a foreword by Martina Devlin, and an introduction by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the anthology includes essays by Cherry Smyth, Mary Morrissy, Lia Mills, Moya Cannon, Aine Ní Ghlinn, Catherine Dunne, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mary O’Donnell, Mary O’Malley, Ruth Carr, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Ivy Bannister, Sophia Hillan, Medbh McGuckian, Mary Dorcey, Celia de Fréine, Máiríde Woods, Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, and Phyl Herbert.

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Book SynopsisThe writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much - value it so much - that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. It is an honour to witness what has urged these writers to the process of thought, cogitation, sentence, and finally, poem. Many writers use writing as an attempt to solve life's conundrums - to solve themselves. And to understand the self and others better, too, because writing is the best way they know to gain sight into, and survive, the vagaries of life. Perhaps the writers in this anthology are like me - maybe for them, too, writing is their sanity and their joy, their best thinking and settling tool. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again - through the very act of writing - to a calmer, less frenetic place. Because poets deal with issues that concern them - universal truths, often - certain themes emerge, as they do in all anthologies. In Washing Windows Too, particular groupings of motifs re-occur and these include birth and motherhood; child-love and empty nests; migration and refugees; women's power and agency; bodies, the male gaze, and violence; nature and its beauties; art, creation, and the act of writing itself; uneasy relationships; politics; health and illness; and grief and death. And, because we are living in the early twenty-twenties, the pandemic naturally features in some poems

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Book SynopsisWashing Windows III anthology is representative of contemporary Irish literature, and of a new society and a new way of accepting and honouring the talent all around us.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly documented book provides an overview of social policies affecting women in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, Norway, France and Sweden. The central theme is the relationship between paid and unpaid work, something very few European governments have been prepared explicitly to address as a social issue and which has yet to enter the European Commission's agenda.Contributors discuss the literature on women and welfare in their particular country concerned and outline the developments in social policies relating to women and the position of women in regard to reproductive and labour market behaviour in the post-War period. The essays analyse the assumptions behind policies affecting women's family and work lives and discuss specific legislative approaches to securing 'equality'. A concluding chapter discusses the European Community's contribution to the goal of equal opportunities for both men and women.The main aim of the book is to provide students with a source of easily accessible information about a major issue in social policy: the relationship between women, the family and employment.Trade Review'Women and Social Policies in Europe is a timely and informative book that provides a wealth of material on women's experiences and welfare rights within Europe.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Women, Work, Family and Social Policies in Europe (Jane Lewis) 2. The Gendered Scandinavian Welfare States: The Interplay between Women's Roles as Mothers, Workers and Citizens in Denmark (Birte Siim) 3. The ‘Woman-Friendly’ Welfare State?: The Case of Norway and Sweden (Arnlaug Leira) 4. Managing the Mothers: The Case of Ireland (Pauline Conroy Jackson) 5. Slow Motion: Women, Work and the Family in Germany (Ilona Ostner) 6. Women, Work and Welfare in France (Linda Hantrais) 7. Gender,‘ Gift Relationship’ and Welfare State Cultures in Italy (Franca Bimbi) 8. Women and the State: Changes in Roles and Rights in France, West Germany, Italy and Britain, 1970–1990 (Prue Chamberlayne) 9. Women’s Rights in the European Community (Elizabeth Meehan)

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Gender combines 21 classic articles on this important topic with a broad-ranging editorial introduction. Emphasizing the categorical function of 'gender' as a social technology, this volume develops a unique approach to one of the most important areas of late twentieth century sociological thought.Combining accessible and specialized contributions to the sociology of gender, The Sociology of Gender demonstrates the vitality and breadth of gender theory within the social sciences as a whole. The book comprises a unique contribution to gender theory in its own right, while also providing an up- to-date and coherent selection of many of the key articles from the past 20 years addressed to sex and gender categories.Table of Contents• CONTENTS: Acknowledgements Introduction by the Editor 1. D. Riley (1988), ‘Does a Sex Have a History?’ 2. N. Jay (1981), ‘Gender and Dichotomy.’ 3. N.-C. Mathieu (1974), ‘Notes Towards a Sociological Definition of Sex Categories.’ 4. F. Edholm, O. Harris and K. Young (1977), ‘Conceptualising Women.’ 5. S.B. Ortner (1974), ‘Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?’ 6. M. Wittig (1981), ‘One is Not Born a Woman.’ 7. V. Stolcke (1988), ‘New Reproductive Technologies: The Old Quest for Fatherhood.’ 8. P. Tabet (1987), ‘Imposed Reproduction: Maimed Sexuality.’ 9. A. Yeatman (1983), ‘The Procreative Model: The Social Ontological Bases of the Gender-Kinship System.’ 10. M. di Leonardo (1987), ‘The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship.’ 11. C. Guillaumin (1981), ‘The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature, Part I: The Appropriation of Women.’ 12. C. Guillaumin (1981), ‘The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature, Part II: The Naturalist Discourse.’ 13. E. Fox Keller (1987), ‘The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex To Gender As Nature Is To Science?’ 14. V. Beechey (1979), ‘On Patriarchy.’ 15. C. West and D.H. Zimmerman (1987), ‘Doing Gender.’ 16. S.J. Kessler (1990), ‘The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants.’ 17. E. Martin (1991), ‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.’ 18. B. Rao (1991), ‘Dominant Constructions of Women and Nature in Social Science Literature.’ 19. A. Ong (1987), ‘Review Essay: Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age.’ 20. P. Hill Collins (1986), ‘The Emerging Theory and Pedagogy of Black Women’s Studies.’ 21. D.J. Haraway (1991), ‘“Gender” for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word.’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisWomen in Business is an extensive collection of significant papers which explore the work of women in a wide range of businesses. The selection encompasses path-breaking articles covering all aspects of women's work in The Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.Key Features:-Women in Business documents and evaluates the business activities of women from around the world who have contributed to the building of business institutions, industries and economies from the 11th to the late 20th centuriesThese volumes assemble for the first time an international collection of English-speaking articles from scholars in economics, psychology, literature, anthropology, history, management and industrial organization, that prepare a ground work for a gendered history of businessThe volumes suggest the basic tools and the knowledge necessary to bring women into business and bring business people and institutions back into societyWomen in Business will be particularly welcomed by business people, women in business, policy professionals and scholars and graduate students.Trade Review'Editor Mary A. Yeager's introduction to the articles offer useful bibliographies on the history and historiography of women in business. The essays are rich in interesting observations.' -- Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen, Scandinavian Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Imagining the Woman in Business and Imaging the Firm 1. Mary A. Yeager, ‘Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?’ 2. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1992), ‘What is a Firm? A Historical Perspective’ 3. Lillian M. Gilbreth (1928), ‘Why Women Succeed in Business’ Part II: Women, Property and the Law A. Women as the Object of Property: Inequality under the Law 4. Rowland Berthoff (1989), ‘Conventional Mentality: Free Blacks, Women, and Business Corporations as Unequal Persons, 1820-70’ 5. Reva Siegel (1994), ‘Home as Work: The First Woman’s Rights Claims concerning Wives’ Household Labor, 1850-1880’ B. Property Owners and Investors 6. Wakita Haruko (1984), ‘Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective of Women’s History’ 7. Anita Göransson (1993), ‘Gender and Property Rights: Capital, Kin, and Owner Influence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sweden’ 8. Loren Schweninger (1990), ‘Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870’ Part III: In the Family Way: Family Business, Family Firms, and Company Culture 9. John Tutino (1983), ‘Power, Class, and Family: Men and Women in the Mexican Elite, 1750-1810’ 10. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall (1987), ‘“The Hidden Investment”: Women and the Enterprise’ 11. Charles Dellheim (1987), ‘The Creation of a Company Culture: Cadbury’s, 1861–1931’ 12. Paula Petrik (1986), ‘The House that Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company’ Part IV: The Business of Invention and Innovation: Women and Technological Change 13. Deborah Merritt (1991), ‘Hypatia in the Patent Office: Women Inventors and the Law, 1865-1900’ 14. Vern L. Bullough (1979), ‘Female Physiology, Technology and Women’s Liberation’ 15. Susan Martin (1984), ‘Gender and Innovation: Farming, Cooking and Palm Processing in the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1930’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: The Business of Farming: Farm Owners, Managers, and Workers 1. Deborah Valenze (1991), ‘The Art of Women and The Business of Men: Women’s Work and the Dairy Industry, c. 1740-1840’ 2. Anne B.W. Effland, Denise M. Rogers and Valerie Grim (1993), ‘Women as Agricultural Landowners: What Do We Know About Them?’ 3. Kathleen Staudt (1978), ‘Agricultural Productivity Gaps: A Case Study of Male Preference in Government Policy Implementation’ Part II: She Merchants, Market Women and Traders All 4. Sidney W. Mintz (1971), ‘Men, Women, and Trade’ 5. W. Thwaites (1984), ‘Women in the Market Place: Oxfordshire c. 1690-180’ 6. Sylvia Van Kirk (1984), ‘The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830’ 7. Jean P. Jordan (1977), ‘Women Merchants in Colonial New York’ 8. Merry Wiesner Wood (1981), ‘Paltry Peddlers or Essential Merchants? Women in the Distributive Trades in Early Modern Nuremberg’ 9. Linda J. Seligman (1989), ‘To Be In Between: The Cholas as Market Women’ Part III: Inservice for Others and Ourselves: Women in Service and Manufacturing Industries A. The ‘Good’ Businesses: Printing, Publishing, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Wholesale and Retail – and Philanthropy 10. Elsa Barkley Brown (1989), ‘Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke’ 11. Wendy Gamber (1992), ‘A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890’ 12. Angel Kwolek-Folland (1991), ‘Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880-1930’ 13. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (1991), ‘Business Ladies: Midwestern Women and Enterprise, 1850-80’ B. “Hers” and “His”: Artisans and Manufacturers 14. Jean H. Quataert (1985), ‘The Shaping of Women’s Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Households, and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870’ 15. James B. Collins (1989), ‘The Economic Role of Women in Seventeenth-Century France’ 16. Kathy Peiss (1990), ‘Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930’ 17. Margaret Walsh (1979), ‘The Democratization of Fashion: The Emergence of the Women’s Dress Pattern Industry’ C. “Evil Businesses”: Prostitution 18. Lucie Cheng Hirata (1979), ‘Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteenth-Century California’ 19. Benedict B.B. Naanen (1991), ‘“Itinerant Gold Mines”: Prostitution in the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, 1930-1950’ Name Index Volume III: Part I: Male Managers and Female Workers in the Firm A. Work, Business and Industrialization 1. Maxine Berg (1993), ‘What Difference did Women’s Work Make to the Industrial Revolution?’ 2. Claudia Goldin (1986), ‘The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence’ B. Managerial, Family and Worker Strategies 3. Elyce J. Rotella (1980), ‘Women’s Labor Force Participation and the Decline of the Family Economy in the United States’ 4. Kenneth Lipartito (1994), ‘When Women were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920’ 5. Joy Parr (1987), ‘The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment’ 6. Richard Roberts (1984), ‘Women’s Work and Women’s Property: Household Social Relations in the Maraka Textile Industry of the Nineteenth Century’ 7. Ruth Milkman (1982), ‘Redefining ‘Women’s Work’: The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II’ 8. Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn (1995), ‘The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence’ C. Working the Law 9. Vicki Schultz (1990), ‘Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument’ Part II: Market Makers and Managers of Consumption: Female Desire and Demand in The Making of Consumption Culture 10. Wesley C. Mitchell (1912), ‘The Backward Art of Spending Money’ 11. Susan Porter Benson (1981), ‘The Cinderella of Occupations: Managing the Work of Department Store Saleswomen, 1900-1940’ 12. Judith G. Coffin (1994), ‘Credit, Consumption, and Images of Women’s Desires: Selling the Sewing Machine in Late Nineteenth-Century France’ Part III: The Organization Woman 13. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1975), ‘Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior’ 14. Margery Davies (1974), ‘Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force’ Part IV: Making the Managerial Woman A. Scientific Managers in the Home and Firm 15. Guy Alchon (1989), ‘Lillian Gilbreth and the Science of Management, 1900-1920’ 16. Mary Nolan (1990), ‘“Housework Made Easy”: The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany’s Rationalized Economy’ 17. Carolyn Goldstein (1997), ‘Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940’ B. The Managerial Rut and Feminine Mystique 18. Sara Alpern (1993), ‘In the Beginning: A History of Women in Management’ 19. Felice N. Schwartz (1989), ‘Management Women and the New Facts of Life’ 20. Nancy J. Adler (1994), ‘Competitive Frontiers: Women Managing Across Borders’ 21. Judy B. Rosener (1990), ‘Ways Women Lead’ Part V: Making the Businesswoman a Feminist 22. Karen Ward (1989), ‘From Executive to Feminist: The Business Women’s Legislative Council of Los Angeles, 1927-1932’ 23. Robert Goffee and Richard Scase (1983), ‘Business Ownership and Women’s Subordination: A Preliminary Study of Female Proprietors’ 24. Suzanne Gordon (1983), ‘The New Corporate Feminism’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly documented book provides an overview of social policies affecting women in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, Norway, France and Sweden. The central theme is the relationship between paid and unpaid work, something very few European governments have been prepared explicitly to address as a social issue and which has yet to enter the European Commission's agenda.Contributors discuss the literature on women and welfare in their particular country concerned and outline the developments in social policies relating to women and the position of women in regard to reproductive and labour market behaviour in the post-War period. The essays analyse the assumptions behind policies affecting women's family and work lives and discuss specific legislative approaches to securing 'equality'. A concluding chapter discusses the European Community's contribution to the goal of equal opportunities for both men and women.The main aim of the book is to provide students with a source of easily accessible information about a major issue in social policy: the relationship between women, the family and employment.Trade Review'Women and Social Policies in Europe is a timely and informative book that provides a wealth of material on women's experiences and welfare rights within Europe.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Women, Work, Family and Social Policies in Europe (Jane Lewis) 2. The Gendered Scandinavian Welfare States: The Interplay between Women's Roles as Mothers, Workers and Citizens in Denmark (Birte Siim) 3. The ‘Woman-Friendly’ Welfare State?: The Case of Norway and Sweden (Arnlaug Leira) 4. Managing the Mothers: The Case of Ireland (Pauline Conroy Jackson) 5. Slow Motion: Women, Work and the Family in Germany (Ilona Ostner) 6. Women, Work and Welfare in France (Linda Hantrais) 7. Gender,‘ Gift Relationship’ and Welfare State Cultures in Italy (Franca Bimbi) 8. Women and the State: Changes in Roles and Rights in France, West Germany, Italy and Britain, 1970–1990 (Prue Chamberlayne) 9. Women’s Rights in the European Community (Elizabeth Meehan)

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Book SynopsisWomen economists rarely feature in most textbooks on the history of economic thought before 1960, despite the many articles and theses produced by them in the period. Why is their work so little studied? What did they write about? Who listened to them, supported them or hindered them?Women of Value seeks to better understand the lives and work of the women who helped to build the economics profession. A number of these papers focus on the sociology of the economics discipline including the failure to cite the work of women economists, graduate work by women and the personal networks among women economists in the pre-war period. It also includes a personal memoir of the experience of one female graduate student studying in the 1930s. Later papers focus on specific women economists including Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Taylor, Barbara Bodichon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary Paley Marshall. The final chapter in the book looks at two studies of the role of women in industry carried out in the early twentieth century.Women of Value reassesses the role of women economists by using biographical research to augment the standard tools of historical and bibliographical work. Combining intellectual rigour with biographical insights into the lives and experience of many determined and courageous women economists, this volume will be welcomed by historians of economic thought, feminist economists and and the those with an interest in women's history.Trade Review'This book honours the women pioneers.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Neglect of Women’s Contributions to Economics 2. American Women Economists, 1900–1940: Doctoral Dissertations and Research Specialization 3. Networks of Women Economists Before 1940 4. Women Mentoring Women in Economics in the 1930s 5. Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau: Motive, Market Experience and Reception of their Works Popularizing Classical Political Economy 6. The Feminist Economic Thought of Harriet Taylor (1807–58) 7. Barbara Bodichon and the Women of Langham Place 8. The Economics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9. Mary Paley Marshall, 1850–1944 10. Women’s Wage Rates and Total Earnings: Two Early ‘Scientific’ Studies Index

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Book SynopsisThis major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis of economic issues and participation in the discipline of economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish women economists are included. This book will transform widely-held views about the past role of women in economics, and will stimulate further research in this exciting but underdeveloped field. It is dedicated to the memory of Michele Pujol, a pioneer in the field.Trade Review'The editors should be congratulated for their excellent work on this handsomely produced biographical dictionary of women economists. . . all librarians should be induced, even in these financially straitened times, to add this work to their shopping list.'Table of ContentsContents: Edith Abbott: Claire Holton Hammond Ruth Alice Allen: Alexandra Bernasek & Douglas Kinnear Shirley Ann Montag Almon: Christopher McDonough-Dumler Elizabeth Faulkner Baker: Chris Nyland & Mark Rix Emily Greene Balch: Robert W. Dimand Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg: Claus-Dieter Krohn Hilde Behrend: Gudrun Biffl Cora Berliner: Claus-Dieter Krohn Krishna Bharadwaj: Krishna Bharadwaj Huguette Biaujeaud: G. Abraham-Frois Clementina Black: Susan King Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer: Lewis A. Soroka Barbara Bodichon: William D. Sockwell Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva: Tatiana E. Kulakovskaja & Natalia I. Naumova Helen Dendy Bosanquet: Peter Groenewegen Ester Boserup: Ingrid Henriksen & Niels Kærgård Emilia Jessie Boucherett: Susan H. Gensemer Marian E.A. Bowley: Bernard Corry Mary Jean Bowman: Evelyn L. Forget Dorothy Stahl Brady: Evelyn L. Forget Sophonisba Brekinridge: Claire Holton Hammond Elizabeth Read Brown: Christopher K. Ryan Martha Stephanie Browne: Jürgen Nautz Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns: Sherryl Davis Kasper Elizabeth Beardsley Butler: Susan H. Gensemer Heln Stuart Campbell: John B. Davis Agatha Louisa Chapman: Judith A. Alexander Margaret Cole: Giandomenica Becchio Clara Elizabeth Collet: Peter Groenewegen Katharine Coman: Robin L. Bartlett Costanza Costantino: Magda Fontana Caroline Wells Healey Dall: Robert W. Dimand Julie-Victoire Daubié: Christine Ivory Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids: Robert W. Dimand Katherine Bement Davis: Claire Holton Hammond Marie Dessauer: Hans-Michael Trautwein Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp: Henk W. Plasmeijer Eleanor Lansing Dulles: Indra Hardeen Raya Dunayevskaya: M.C. Howard & J.E. King Minnie Throop England: Robert W. Dimand Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Michèle A. Pujol & Janet A. Seiz Ann Fetter Friedlaender: Evelyn L. Forget Rose Director Friedman: J. Daniel Hammond Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy: J.J. Thomas Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Mary Ann Dimand Fanny Ginor: Harald Hagemann Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp: Niels Kærgård Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith: Vibha Kapuria-Foreman Dorothy C. Goodwin: Shyamala Raman Margaret Gordon: Joyce P. Jacobsen Mariana Goudi: Michalis Psalidopoulos Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson: Aurora Gamez Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond: Richard Kleer Amy Hewes: Peter Groenewegen Ursula Hicks: Joyce P. Jacobsen Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt: Alison Comish Thorne B.L. Hutchins: James P. Henderson Mary Quayle Innis: Anne Innis Dagg Alice Hanson Jones: Evelyn L. Forget Florence Kelley: Kathryn Kish Sklar Susan Myra Kingsbury: Susan H. Gensemer Karin Kock: Rolf Henriksson Anna Koutsoyiannis: Ronald G. Bodkin Hazel Kyrk: Richard A. Lobdell Käthe Leichter: Theresa Wobbe Charlotte Leubuscher: Philine Scholze & Therese Wobbe Helene Lieser: Jürgen Nautz Gertrud von Lovasy: Jürgen Nautz Rosa Luxemburg: Richard Kleer Jane Haldimand Marcet: Bette Polkinghorn Mary Paley Marshall: Rita McWilliams Tullberg Harriet Martineau: Evelyn L. Forget Jean Trepp McKelvey: Margaret Lewis Therese Schmid McMahon: Robert W. Dimand Mary Meynieu: Evelyn L. Forget Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill: Michèle A. Pujol Ilse Schüler Mintz: Jürgen Nautz Natalie Moszkowska: M.C. Howard & J.E. King Selma J. Mushkin: Deborah Haas-Wilson Margaret Good Myers: Brenda Spotton Visano Maria Negreponti-Delivani: Michalis Psalidopoulos Mabel Newcomer: Jean Shackelford Jessica Blanche Peixotto: Richard A. Lobdell Virginia Penny: Susan H. Gensemer Edith Tilton Penrose: Michael H. Best & Jane Humphries The Philip Family: Niels Kærgård Vera Cao Pinna: Graziella Fornengo Michèle A. Pujol: Robert W. Dimand Eleanor Rathbone: Janet A. Seiz Margaret Gilpin Ried: Evelyn L. Forget Joan Robinson: Zohreh Emami Clémence-Auguste Royer: Evelyn L. Forget Lise Salvas-Bronsard: Robert W. Dimand Koko (Takako) Sanpei: Aiko Ikeo Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter: Richard A. Lobdell Anna Jacobson Schwartz: Michael D. Bordo Nancy L. Schwartz: Morton I. Kamien Hannah Robie Sewall: Claire Holton Hammond Kate Sheppard: Prue Hyman Irene M. Spry: Judith A. Alexander & Karen Shopsowitz Maria Szecsi: Felix Butschek Setsu Tanino: Aiko Ikeo Maria da Conceição Tavares: Mauro Boianovsky Marguerite Thibert: Evelyn L. Forget Mabel Frances Timlin: Robert W. Dimand Cläre Tisch: Harald Hagemann Flora Tristan: Jean Shackelford Mary Abby Van Kleek: Chris Nyland & Mark Rix Priscilla Wakefield: Robert W. Dimand Phyllis Ann Wallace: Evelyn L. Forget Barbara Ward: Christopher K. Ryan & Ramakrishna Vaitheswaran Caroline Farrar Ware: Frederic S. Lee & Warren J. Samuels Beatrice Potter Webb: James P. Henderson Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury: Richard A. Lobdell Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston: Spencer J. Pack Barbara Wootton: Indra Hardeen Frieda Wunderlich: Gary Mongiovi Kikue Yamakawa: Aiko Ikeo Anna Pritchett Youngman: Barbara Libby Irini (Rena) Zafiriou: Michalis Psalidopoulos

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Book SynopsisCovering the lifespan of women from puberty to old age, this comprehensive collection provides ground-breaking research and theory that challenges current conceptions of women's health and illustrates the diversity of approaches in this burgeoning field. The interdisciplinary angle of the book will appeal to a wide-ranging readership and includes detailed commentaries on key topics such as anorexia nervosa, depression, women and cancer, sexual abuse, disability, exercise, body image, pregnancy, sexual violence and drug use.Trade Review'Brillant! This exciting collection should be on the bookshelf and reading list of everyone concerned with women's health issues. It can only be hoped that the ground-breaking work presented here will be as widely read and taught as it richly deserves to be.' Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia. 'This volume provides a comprehensive and confident treatment of this vast and vital topic ... In this book the psychology of women's health has come of age.' Dr Wendy Hollway, School of Psychology, University of LeedsTable of ContentsList of contributors x Preface xx Acknowledgements xx Introduction Women’s health: Contemporary concerns 1 Jane M. Ussher Section One: An Overview of Critical Issues in Women’s Health 1 Psychology of women’s health: A critique 26 Christina Lee 2 Qualitative methods and women’s health research 40 Michael Murray and Kerry Chamberlain 3 Choosing a life span developmental orientation 50 Sheila Greene Section Two: Young Women’s Health 4 Young Asian women and self-harm 59 Harriette Marshall and Anjum Yazdani 5 Girls on “E”: Social problem or social panic? 69 Maria Pini 6 Women and substance abuse: Problems of visibility and empowerment 76 Helen Keane 7 Young lesbians and mental health: The closet is a depressing place to be 83 Julie Mooney-Somers and Jane Ussher 8 Femininity as a barrier to positive sexual health for adolescent girls 93 Deborah L. Tolman Section Three: Sexuality and Sexual Health 9 ‘I couldn’t imagine having sex with anyone else’ Young women’s experience of trustworthiness in heterosexual relationships 105 Niamh Stephenson, Susan Kippax and June Crawford 10 Reclaiming women’s sexual agency 114 Lynne Segal 11 The social construction of women’s sexuality: The dangers of pharmaceutical industry interest 124 Leonore Tiefer 12 Rape: Cultural definitions and health outcomes 129 Nancy Felipe Russo, Mary P. Koss and Luciana Ramos Lira 13 Sexual assault and domestic violence: Implications for health workers 143 Sue Lees 14 Naming abuse and constructing identities 154 Rosaleen Croghan and Dorothy Miell 15 Sexual harassment and stress: How women cope with unwanted sexual attention 160 Alison Thomas 16 Women’s sexual health: An overview 172 Sylvia Smith 17 Contraception choice: A biopsychosocial perspective 180 Beth Alder 18 Menopause and sexuality 190 Lorraine Dennerstein 19 Living on the edge: Women with learning disabilities 196 Jan Burns Section Four: Physical Health and Illness 20 Women living with HIV in Britain 204 Corinne Squire 21 Gynaecological cancer 218 Marian Pitts and Eleanor Bradley 22 Cervical screening 224 Julie Fish and Sue Wilkinson 23 Breast cancer: A feminist perspective 230 Sue Wilkinson 24 Partner support for women with breast cancer: A process analysis approach 237 Nancy Pistrang 25 Chronic pelvic pain 244 Marian Pitts, Linda McGowan and David Clark Carter 26 Women and somatic distress 249 Annemarie Kolk Section Five: Reproductive Health 27 ‘PMS research: Balancing the personal with the political’ 255 Jacqueline Reilly 28 What does systems theory have to do with premenstrual complaints? 266 Wendy Vanselow 29 Menstrual cycle and eating behavior 271 Louise Dye 30 Hormones and behavior: Cognition, menstruation and menopause 278 John T. E. Richardson 31 Sex hormones as biocultural actors: Rethinking biology, sexual difference and health 283 Celia Roberts 32 Reproduction: A critical analysis 290 Carol A. Morse 33 Pregnancy: A healthy state? 296 Harriet Gross 34 Screening: A critique 302 Maeve Ennis 35 Childbirth 307 Jane J. Weaver 36 Motherhood and mothering 312 Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall 37 Competing explanations of postpartum depression: What are the benefits to women? 320 Paula Nicolson 38 Deconstructing ‘Hysterectomized Women’: A materio-discursive approach 329 Pippa Dell 39 The experience of abortion: A contextualist view 339 Mary Boyle Section Six: Bodies and Body Image 40 Body image 356 Sarah Grogan 41 Anorexia nervosa 363 Helen Malson 42 Looking good and feeling good: Why do fewer women than men exercise? 372 Precilla Y. L. Choi 43 Gender, culture and eating disorders 379 Mervat Nasser 44 Women with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) 387 Celia Kitzinger 45 Transgender issues 394 Louise K. Newman Section Seven: Mental Health 46 Understanding depression in women: Limitations of mainstream approaches and a material-discursive alternative 405 Janet M. Stoppard 47 Women’s narratives of recovery from disabling mental health problems: A bicultural project from Aotearoa/New Zealand 415 Hilary Lapsley, Linda Waimarie Nikora and Rosanne Black 48 Women, stress and work: Exploring the boundaries 423 Rebecca Lawthom 49 The socio-political context of abortion and its relationship to women’s mental health 431 Jean Denious and Nancy Felipe Russo 50 Women and psychosis 440 Emmanuelle Peters 51 Women and dementia: From Stigma towards celebrations 447 Kate Allen 52 The experience of childhood sexual abuse: A psychological perspective of adult female survivors in terms of their personal accounts, therapy, and growth 455 Christine D. Baker 53 Psychodynamic psychotherapy 461 Janet Sayers 54 Self-psychology 465 Anna Gibbs Section Eight: The Health of Older Women 55 Representations of menopause and women at midlife 470 Antonia C. Lyons and Christine Griffin 56 Psychological well-being in aging women 476 Linda Gannon 57 The paradox of older women’s health 485 Rosemary Leonard and Ailsa Burns 58 Working with older women: Developments in clinical psychology 489 Frances J. Baty Index 497

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. Gopegui's social commitments find expression in her concern for solidarity and collective projects. These become more radical over time in response to a disenchantment with the evolution of the left in Spain and to the global impact of the capitalist economic system, giving rise to increasingly interventionist narrative strategies. The core theme of solidarity is explored in relation to the collective experience of Spain's largely consensualdemocratic transition and to the apparent erosion of collective goals in post-transition society. Gopegui's discourse of solidarity is examined through engagement with theorists of advanced modernity, including Ulrich Beck's 'risksociety' model and various contemporary reflections on the concept of solidarity. Centred on Gopegui's first four novels, the study situates analysis of these within the perspective of her later works and illuminates her artisticand intellectual trajectory by drawing on an extensive array of her non-fiction writings and personal interviews, one of which is published here for the first time. Hayley Rabanal is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.Table of ContentsIntroduction Tocarnos la cara: Solidarity as Unachievable Ideal La conquista del aire: Money as Obstacle to Solidarity From La escala to Lo real: Solidarity as Pathway to a Revolutionary Horizon Conclusion Appendix A: An Interview with Belén Gopegui

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to particular strands of literature that their names are immediately evocative of specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in its attention to writers from widely differing historical and social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted by the authors. Brígida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus and Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to students wishing to specialise in the contribution of women writers to the genre. The present volume is without doubt a worthy contribution to the publisher's Companions series. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *[R]eaders will find in the Companion insightful introductions to authors too often overlooked. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Table of ContentsIntroduction Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [1648/51?-1695] - Nina Scott Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda [1814-1873] - Brígida M. Pastor Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) - Joanne Crow Alfonsina Storni [1892-1938] - Joanna Evans Silvina Ocampo [1903?-1993] - Fiona J. Mackintosh Clarice Lispector [1920-1977] - Stephen M. Hart Rosario Castellanos [1925-1974] - Nuala Finnegan Elena Poniatowska [1933- ] - Teresa Hurley Alejandra Pizarnik [1936-1972] - John McCulloch Luisa Valenzuela [1938- ] - Sharon Magnarelli Isabel Allende [1942- ] - Philip Swanson Rosario Ferré [1942- ] - Denise L. Dupont Laura Esquivel [1950- ] - Claire Taylor Laura Restrepo [1950- ] - Conclusion Bibliography

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