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Taylor & Francis The Exercising Female
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Taylor & Francis Comfort Women and PostOccupation Corporate Japan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Drawings of the Human Figure Essays in Developmental Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis The Designed Self
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Taylor & Francis Mothers and Daughters II Psychoanalytic Inquiry 261 v 26 No 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bible and Genderbased Violence in Botswana
Book SynopsisThis book foregrounds the rampancy of gender-based violence against women and girls in biblical texts and how it resonates with GBV in the contemporary context of Botswana and is intended for a wide readership including researchers, postgraduates, church and other representatives of religious institutions, and upper-level undergraduates.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Contextual Background 2. Establishing the Gaps: The Bible and GBV in Context 3. Gender-based Violence: Endemic in Biblical Texts and Botswana Context 4. A Way Forward Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd West African Women in the Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora womenâs fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africaâs borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of African womenâs experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, womenâs and world literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s Ghana Must Go Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Lives
Book SynopsisWomenâs Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, immigrant experience, sexual orientation, gender identity, ableness and body size and shape. The text embeds a lifespan perspective within each topical chapter and has an intersectional approach that integrates womenâs diverse identities. It includes rich coverage of women with disabilities and on middle-aged and older women throughout. Taking a deeper transnational focus, it also examines the impact of social, cultural, and economic factors in shaping womenâs lives around the world.This edition explores the latest areas of research and tackles important contemporary topics such as: feminization of immigration media portrayals of LGBTQ individuals and immigrants regulating testosterone levels in womenâs sports; disorders of sexual development; nonbinary identity the effects of social media on body image; sizeism new classification of sexual disorders menstrual equity and the tampon tax migrant women as transnational mothers academic environment for low-income, ethnic minority, and immigrant women effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on womenâs employment and work-family balance the dilemma of unpredictable work hours healthcare barriers experienced by immigrant women and LGBTQ individuals #MeToo movement; vigilante gender violence the fourth wave of feminism the role of immigrant women and ethinc minority women in grassroots feminist activism menâs support of feminist issues and more Boasting a new full-color design and rich with pedagogy, the book includes several boxed elements in each chapter. In The News boxes present current news items designed to engage students in thinking critically about current gender-focused events and issues. The What You Can Do boxes give students examples of applied activities that they can engage in to promote a more egalitarian society. Get Involved boxes ask students to collect data and to critically think about the explanations and implications of the activityâs findings. Learn About the Research boxes expose students to a variety of research methods and highlight the importance of diversity in research samples by including studies of underrepresented groups. At the end of each chapter, What Do You Think questions foster skills in critical thinking, synthesis, and evaluation by asking the student to apply course material or personal experiences to provocative issues from the chapter. The If You Want to Learn More feature provides names of the most current books available on various topics that are discussed in the chapter. Combining up-to-date research with an approachable and engaging writing style, Womenâs Lives is an invaluable resource for all students of gender from psychology, womenâs studies, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology.Table of Contents1. Introduction to the Psychology of Women. 2. Cultural Representation of Gender. 3. Gender Self-Concept and Gender Attitudes. 4. Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. 5. Gender Comparisons. 6. Sexuality. 7. Reproductive System and Childbearing. 8. Relationships. 9. Education and Achievement. 10. Employment. 11. Balancing Family and Work. 12. Physical Health. 13. Mental Health. 14. Violence Against Girls and Women. 15. A Feminist Future: Goals, Actions, and Beliefs. 16. References.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood
Book SynopsisCareer Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women: the institutional auto/biography of employment letters, curriculum vitae, tenure portfolios, promotion applications, publication and conference bios, academic website profiles, and other self-authored narratives required by institutions to compete for opportunities and resources. The essays explore the privacy laws, peer review, disciplinary standards, digital media, and other standardizing tools, practices and policies that impact women's self-construction at pivotal junctures at which they promote themselves in the spaces of academic careers.Trade Review“The essays in Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood cast light on the exhausting demand that women squeeze their lives into the metrics of academic success. By highlighting how forms that purport to quantify and document women’s academic success obscure their actual lives and labor, they map out the pitfalls of translating life into career narratives that structurally disadvantage women. Against the mandatory uses of life writing in institutional forms of evaluation, the writers develop feminist and intersectional ways to make their work count otherwise.” --Leigh Gilmore, author of The #Me Too Effect (2023) and the newly rereleased The Limits of Autobiography (2023)“The auto/biographical essays in this provocative collection document the persistence of stifling patriarchal norms and forms in the western academy. More importantly, they also document the many shrewd stratagems women faculty on three continents have devised to subvert “the official story” the patriarchal academy decrees. Kudos to Ortiz-Vilarelle and her penetrating colleagues!”--Joycelyn Moody, Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and editor of A History of African American Autobiography (2021).“Across the span of their careers, academic women are required to produce narratives of their professional lives, their quantifiable scholarly achievements, research agendas, teaching philosophies, service histories, future plans. They now find themselves curating academic self-presentations across a number of digital platforms. These are narrated lives constrained by professional and institutional norms. In this edgy, provocative collection, Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided, Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle presents women academics mobilizing scholarly knowledge of autobiography studies, feminist theory, critical race studies, and ethnography to probe the sociocultural politics of evaluative self-narration and -promotion within the neoliberal university, with its enduring masculinist and racialized model of belonging and success. Sometimes focus turns to critique of suffocating expectations of self-narration in standardized modes, the tenure dossier, the academic CV. Sometimes emphasis falls on the agentic forging of alternative practices of self-presentation in counter-forms and media, among them academic selfie, collaborative narration, and curation of autobiographical objects in women’s offices. Collectively, these forays into autotheory and autoethnography ground the larger message, for all professional women, about the politics of stultifying norms and the joys of everyday autobiographical practices that acknowledge and incorporate material, expressive, multimedial, poetic, and collective means of knowing oneself in often inhospitable spaces.”--Sidonie Smith, Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities at the University of Michigan, USA and Director of the Institute for Humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Unlikely Autobiography of Women’s Career DocumentationLISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE1 Vitae Statistics: The Anti-Autobiographical Imperative of Academic Self-DocumentationAIMEE MORRISON2 Docile Bodies (of Work): Coaxing the Neoliberal Academic via the Online Researcher ProfileEMMA MAGUIRE3 Sign ‘In the Space Provided’: Academic Email Signatures as Sites of Narrative, Branding, and Refusal?MAY FRIEDMAN AND JENNIFER POOLE4 Messing with the Metrics and Setting Our Own Standards: Academic Women’s Efforts to Reframe SuccessALISON L. BLACK, SANDRA ELSOM, AND VICKI SCHRIEVER5 ‘Making Spreadsheets Won’t Get You Tenure’: Autoethnography, Women Administrative Faculty, and the Genres That Make Them (In)Visible CANDIS BOND6 ‘Not Another ARC Summer’: Grant Applications and Life Narratives of Motherhood KATE DOUGLAS7 Academic Motherhood and the Complex Banalities of a Curriculum VitaeLEENA KÄOSAAR8 Getting an Academic Life: The Untranslatable, or How to Curate a Polish-Canadian CVEVA C. KARPINSKI9 Crossing the Lines: Using Personnel File Documents to Negotiate Embodied SpaceCYNTHIA HUFF10 How a Lifetime of Academic Administration Gave Me the Freedom to Write a Sisterlocking Academic Memoir: An Interview with Valerie Lee VALERIE LEE WITH JULIA WATSON11 The Poetic Cover Letter: On Crafting Paradoxical PersonasVICKI HALLETT12 Mothers and Myths: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Account of Navigating Domestic Academic LifeVANESSA MARR AND JESS MORIARTY13 Post-it as Praxis: Counternarrating Non-linearity and Multiplicity in Academic LivesELIZABETH RODRIGUES AND MARION WOLFE14 Dossiers in Crip Time: Reclaiming a Space for Crazy in the AcademyALLY DAY15 The Same Self/ie: Blurring Academic, Creative, and Personal Identity through the Taking and Sharing of Self-PortraitsMARINA DELLER16 Spilling Out of the Spaces Provided: How Occupying the Academic Office Becomes an Autobiographical ActLAURA BEARD AND LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research
Book SynopsisThe Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body's place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making.By voicing the body', the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed, yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidly moves to celebrating the body through discussing taboo topics like sex/sexuality in friendship, underwear (knickers), ageing, and death, as well as how a non-binary body moves in a heteronormative world. Through the lens of Bodyography, this book does research differently illuminating how the body flourishes, excites knowledge, and is complicated when placed on a screen'. This book celebrates a collaborative and arts-based approach. This book is a dialogue between The Bodies Collective, with dialogic resonance sections between each chapter and art pieces throughout.This boTrade Review"This is a rebellious book. It is a response-able book. It is a book that collectively refuses the timidity and the judgementalism, when it comes to bodies, which pervade the social and psychological sciences. The Bodies Collective challenges the absence of bodies, and the tendency to construe them as matter that is unspeakable, unthinkable, irrelevant, superficial and even abject, in the context of research and research writing. This book challenges that contempt for, and fear of, the body, as it develops collaborative ways of working that move beyond that familiar version of the disembodied researcher. It is thus a courageous work that the Bodies Collective undertakes here, as they map out ways of working together that are safe, engaging, intimate, erotic, playful, and mobile. Through their collaboration with each other, they map out an academic skinship that enables each, singly and collectively, to flourish, in the pursuit of new understandings that begin with the matter and mattering of intra-acting bodies." -- Bronwyn Davies. Independent scholar, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor Western Sydney University, Australia"Challenging the Cartesian legacy, this important text will alert readers to hitherto neglected epistemic possibilities. Although the idea of texts without bodies has never made sense, much writing is tacitly body-silencing, thus – by extension – body-shaming. This is strange because the body is always thoroughly textualized and textualizing, in interaction and intra-action, and the embodied other is always you. In a marvellous, ground-breaking style, this book puts voice back into bodies, where it belongs." -- Alec Grant, PhD, Visiting Professor, University of Bolton, UK"An intimate, reflexive account of how to ‘be with’, ‘work with’, ‘stay with’ one’s body in an academic context. This book is not a simple cookbook with ready-to-go recipes on doing bodyography. It is an invitation to use some of its prompts affirmatively on the beautiful, rich methodological playfield qualitative scholars are currently creating for themselves." -- Karin Hannes, Professor in Transdisciplinary Studies and Creative Research methodology. Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium. Coordinator research group SoMeTHin’K; Curator Townsquare13; European Network Qualitative Inquiry."This book sparkles … it is a delicious read/ quite a romp/ into voicing the bodies…/ and staying with the trouble so hang on to your knickers/ readerseach jewel written at an angle/tells the truth but ‘tells it slant’ to polyamorous academia/ we the readers/ are included on the blind date and invited in to the friendship between this group of scholarly oddkinwriting image/full; seriously play/full and deeply lyrical/ excoriating texts together we / the readers become part of the resonation processand climb insideexperiences of dysmorphia and grief/ finding ourselves voices that have been disquietingly silenced in the academy/ we seem/ reading this book/ always to have had our knickers onbackwards read this book! you too will explore your response-abilityfrom the ache in the small of your back to your optic nerve/ you will laugh a lot and cry - and sometimes sob at / with the embodied/ poignant/ piercing beauty of it all… so …read this book!" -- Jane Speedy. Emeritus Professor of Education (Qualitative Inquiry) University of Bristol, UK"The Collaborative Body unfolds like a folk dance as chapter by chapter, each participant in The Bodies Collective takes the lead in turn, sharing unique insight that centres the body/ies as origin and site of inquiry, as inquirer, as act of inquiring, while the others (readers included) witness, then respond. Aligning with post-feminist, post-modern, post-human efforts at restoring the unity and connectedness of body-mind(s), this work leads the way for a new generation of scholars who are done with pretending their thoughts and minds exist beyond their embodiment. Relatable, accessible, enabling and a delight to clap along to, from first encounter to final breath this book reads as a processual creative act, birthing the field of Bodyography into being." -- Melissa Dunlop PhD, Psychotherapist, Researcher & Writer, Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network."This book is a breath of fresh air, a manuscript that teaches us alternative ways of researching and collaborating, allowing us to rethink the role of bodies in academia. The bodies collective presents us with a lively methodology full of humanity, creativity and corporeality. This book teaches us to collaborate organically and to know and write about what is submerged in our bodies, teaching us ways to reach beyond words." -- Inés Bárcenes Taland, Associate Professor at Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain.The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research constitutes one of the most body-centered research tools in the fields of qualitative inquiry. Packed with accessible exploratory activities and examples, The Collaborative Body illustrates methodologies of compassionate critique, international collaborations, and politically personal communions. I recommend accepting their collective invitation to become a Bodyographer." -- Tami Spry, Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Performance Studies, St. Cloud State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: We are the Bodies Collective. Researchers Working towards Change through Bodyography 1. Voicing the Unspeakable Body: The Politics of Appearance and the Silence that Pervades Academic Discourse Resonances to Chapter 1. Conversation with the Bodies Collective Around Power and Privilege 2. Embodied Friendship and Explicit Autoethnography: When is it Ok to Talk about Cis Women’s Bodies and Sex? Resonances to Chapter 2. Abject autoethnography: A Conversation 3. (Un)dressing the body: Underwear Stories and Audio-found-poetry Resonances to Chapter 3. The Academic Life of Knickers discussion 4: Uncovering the Non-Binary Body: Using Bodyography to Discover Gender Identity and Combat Body Dysmorphia Resonances to Chapter 4. The Presence of Absence and Other Refractions of Gender Identity 5. Equivalencies. Creative Rituals, the Ageing Body and Grief Resonances to Chapter 5. The Presence of Absence and the Twelfthtight Nights Through Creative Serious Play 6. Snacks from Cooking After the Bodyography Recipe: The Body as an Epistemological Entity Resonances to Chapter 6. Between Academic Skinship and Authorship – Cultivating Different Tastes and Appetites 7. Talking / Walking to Myself: Questioning the Primacy of the Word Resonances to Chapter 7. Matter as Mattering 8. Doing Online Embodied Research: Researching Together, Apart Resonances to Chapter 8: I Am Always in Relation to You, Whatever Form We Take Together An Ending to the Book and a Beginning of Sorts: Of Bodies, Organs, Time and Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Motherhood Childhood and Parenting in an Age of
Book SynopsisMotherhood, as a celebrated yet underappreciated role, is often thought of as a natural process, something instinctive that we refine by watching our own mothers and others in our community. We rarely think of motherhood as something that is time and culturally specific, yet, like culture itself, it is socially constructed, and both motherhood and childhood evolve over time. With the rise in educational attainment of mothers in the American population, the expectations associated with childhood increasingly include not just education but cognitive development and extracurricular activities as the partnership between parents and education intensifies in the joint project of human development of children. Motherhood, Childhood, and Parenting in an Age of Education offers a new way to conceptualize the high demands of contemporary parenthood. It traces the emerging narrative about the good mother, changes in the underlying assumptions of what constitutes the good mother, Trade Review"What makes this an important contribution is that it links changes in the wider society (and even the world as in the world educational revolution) to changes in what constitutes the good mother without pretending that we now know what constitutes good motherhood. That is, the book avoids essentialist traps and pretentious universal application claims while still showing how consequential the models of the good mother have become for mothers, children, and their societies. This will be a salient text for students, teachers, and researchers for years to come."–Francisco O. Ramirez, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University"Reading this book changes the way you think about how education has transformed motherhood and childhood over the past century, including the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Schaub’s compelling analysis is full of insights, creatively contrasting everyday notions and academic arguments with a wealth of evidence embedded in an accessible, engaging narrative of shifting intergenerational relationships. An important sociological contribution, it unmasks how the ever-tighter intersection between schooling and the family influences roles, expectations, and identities of childhood and parenthood everywhere." –Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg"The worldwide explosion of education has dramatically impacted parenting -- and motherhood in particular. Dr. Schaub impressively analyzes this transformation, based on her own research, the wider literature, and her own personal reflections. This unique book will be of great interest to those concerned with modern familial and educational arrangements".John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, emeritus, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. An Invitation2. The Good Mother Goes to School3. The "Good Childhood" Is a Delicate Balancing Act4. The Institutional Invasion5. The "Good Mother" Is an Engaged Parent6. The Normative Lens7. Before the Invasion8. The Invited Invasion as a Joint Project with the FamilyReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Talking About Female Genital Mutilation
Book SynopsisThis workbook is designed to be used to facilitate discussion and disseminate awareness amongst all professionals (social workers, teachers and health care professionals) who are required by law to report instances of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Suitable for use in group settings, it requires no prior knowledge of the subject, but is written in such a way for anyone to be able to facilitate a session with colleagues, which takes between one to three hours depending on the facilitator and group's needs. Divided into five chapters, it shows how to facilitate a training session using the material, including being aware of how people may be triggered by this difficult subject. Providing activities to facilitate discussion, it explains terminology and provides explanation of different types of FGM, risk factors and legal aspects including mandatory reporting in certain regions. Designed to be concise, it will give busy professionals a quick and effective tool to dissemTable of Contents0.Introduction. Chapter 4: When We Have Concerns About a Girl’s Risk of FGM. Chapter 5: Towards a Future Without Cutting.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Smart Career Moves for Smart Women
Book SynopsisWritten for the businesswoman and professional, this book offers insights and guidance on making the right decisions about career paths and shows ways to strategically prepare for a career transition, be it a promotion, change of sector, setting up one's own business or even changing careers altogether.Women are looking more and more at a change of work set-up (to at home' and hybrid models) and what they want out of their careers and wider life. In easy-to-follow steps, this book demystifies the unwritten rules of making a successful career transition. The reader is provided with a highly practical guide to navigating professional changes at all career points and of all types as well as a toolkit to facilitate the practice of these new skills and approaches. The book encourages professional women to stop, reflect, and do the groundwork on where they want their career to go. It provides the tools to identify what they want, prepare for change, and cultivate the necessary skiTrade Review"It’s important for women to build a list of ‘trusted advisors’ along with a corporate career survival tool kit, for which Smart Career Moves for Smart Women is invaluable! A successful career is more than just skills, it’s important to take control of your career from the outset, ensuring that you are clear about your values, so that any career decision you make is values led – this book creates the framework to allow you to do this! I wish this book had been available when I started my career, more than 40 years ago."Dr Heather Melville OBE, Senior Managing Director, Teneo"This book reveals the hidden skills necessary to be successful in moving between different work environments and how to be flexible while staying true to your core values and passion."Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon, Director General, World Nuclear Association"At a time of rapid, global change in society and the marketplace, women, especially, need to learn to adapt and prepare for their next career move, and this book is the ideal companion which shows how to do that."Kirsty Gogan, Managing Director, Lucid Catalyst"Susan has been a fabulous coach and professional resource with immense skill in helping one navigate career development. The book will be a great help to many professional women wanting insights and practical steps for developing their career."Dr. Liz Williams, Board Director, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia"A subject that is very close to my heart has been handled here by an experienced career coach with sensitivity and understanding of the challenges professional women face."Cornelia von Rittberg, Business Matchmaker & Regenerator; International Art Broker"A wealth of insight and strategies offered with a personal tone and style that feels like Susan is coaching you along toward your goals."Jan M. Walton, Human Resources and Organisational Change Consultant"Dr Doering has written a practical, focussed guide for any woman struggling with the complex and challenging issues around career transition. Real-life examples bring the issues to life, and Dr Doering’s compassionate, coaching-focussed advice would be an invaluable resource for any professional woman at a career crossroads. The text shows a deep and helpful understanding of the issues facing women thinking about a career change. Dr Doering’s wide professional expertise and understanding of different cultural contexts give the book wide relevance."Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque CBE, Secretary General, International Order of St John of Jerusalem"Transitioning into a new role can undermine confidence and be extremely stressful if not approached in a pro-active way. Susan guides the reader through the balancing act of establishing credibility, building relationships and delivering on expectations."Helen Isacke, Founder and Director, Trusted Coach Directory UK"Smart Career Moves for Smart Women is essential reading for women at all stages in their career, and one that they can return to again and again as they encounter or seek new transitions. Written in a clear, honest and straight-talking style, it offers meaningful insights that will resonate with all working women. Having already made one major career transition with a change of both sectors and roles, a lot of the themes feel personally applicable. I am now finding myself returning to Susan’s insights as I embark on motherhood and the inevitable transition this will entail for my career. I will definitely be consulting this book when I contemplate how I want to re-enter working life after maternity leave and how I want to shape my career around my shifting values and needs.Susan masterfully applies her own expertise and emotional intelligence to sometimes complex situations and gives actionable advice that will give the reader the confidence and clarity of thought to grapple with the essential questions all women need to ask themselves about the outcomes they are seeking and what they are willing and able to change to make these happen. The toolkits and journaling exercises are excellent and will allow readers to engage with the content as actively as they choose and offer great value to return to again and again. The content is particularly timely and relevant as we adjust to the new ‘post-pandemic reality’ where women (and men) have realised a level of flexibility and work-life balance that can produce better outcomes for both their productivity and their well-being. I will certainly be consulting this book often as I navigate new changes and challenges in my career and transitions I wish to make. The valuable insight and advice it provides for women at all stages of their careers and across sectors makes it an unmissable read."Katie Reading, Wine BuyerTable of ContentsPart 1: Identifying what you want and making it happen 1. What you want to do is who you are 2. Knowing yourself better = better career choices 3. Navigating change and acquiring the tools to do this Part 2: Preparing for change 4. Preparing for change – understanding your choices 5. Exploring new pathways and opportunities 6. Thinking creatively about your next career transition Part 3: Getting to where you want to go and cultivating the skills that underpin successful career transitions 7. Transforming ideas and wishes into concrete opportunities 8. Learning the new 9. The people factor 10. Communication skills – communicating for purpose 11. Getting support 12. Moving into power 13. Planning your future career development Part 4: Believing in yourself 14. Aiming for satisfaction in your career journey 15. Practising being who you are
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Gendered Body in South Asia
Book SynopsisThis book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape. It critically analyzes gender politics from different disciplinary perspectives including psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and law among others. Enriched by contributions from well-known South Asian feminist scholars, this book discusses themes such as democracy and dissent, citizenship and violence and how the female body has historically been used in these discussions as a shield and a weapon. It also focuses on technology and misogyny, the politics of veiling and unveiling, the body of the Muslim women in contemporary India as well as bodies which are marginalized or labelled transgressive or monstrous. The chapters in the volume showcase the complexities, convergences and divergences which exist in the conception and understanding of the gendered body, sexuality and gender roles in different socio-cultural spaces in Table of ContentsPart I: NEGOTIATION- 1 Wearing Multiple Bodies: Towards a Psychosocial Analysis of Women's Bodies in Globalized India- Rachana Johri 2 Mothering the Daugther's Body: Narratives from Two Muslim Mothers in India-Syeda Naghma Abidi 3 Conversations on the Covid 19 Pandemic Body: Violence and Touch-Krishna Menon, Deepti Sachdev and Rukmini Sen 4 The Politics of Un-Covering in India-Ambar Ahmad. Part II: STRUGGLE. 5 New Technologies and Gender Reproducing Bodies Resisiting Bodies. Bijayalaxmi Nanda 6 Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Tradition-Nayema Nasir 7 My Honor, My Crime- Aysha Baqir 8 Ghosts in search of Bodies- Shalini Masih Part III: RESISTANCE-9 Inside Girls Transgressing the hudd in Pakistani feminist poetry-Anu Aneja 10 The Yakshi as the Monstruous Feminine Some Representations from the Malayalam Speaking Region-Mamatha and Bindu 11 The Marginalised Tribal Body in Mahashweta Devi's Stories-Meenakshi Malhotra 12 The Body in Submission An Offering to Feminism- Jaya Sharma Part IV: PROTEST 13 Voicing Democracy and Reclaiming Citizenship: A Dialogic Conversation about Shaheen Bagh-Meenakshi Gopinath, Krishna Menon, Rukmini Sen and Niharika Banerjea 14 Campus Feminism and the Nation-State Women Students' Leadership of the Anti-CAA-NRC Uprising in India-Tamanna Basu 15 Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor Politics of Prostitution and the Consciousness of Civic Society in Bangladesh-Sohana Manzoor Part V: CRITIQUE 16 Disabled Body Pain and Vulnerability-Anita Ghai 17 Binarised Bodies Towards a Politics of Inarticulacy Instability and Anonymity- Giti Chandra 18 Knees and Feet Together Shoulders Back and Chest Out Embodying the Hidden Curriculum through Women's Girlhood Narratives- Aakansha D’Cruz Part VI: REPRESENTATIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS 19 Fragments of Memory The Thoa Khalsa incident of 1947 in the Amritsar Partition Museum- Shuchi Kapila 20 Not an island unto themselves but a part of the main women voices from the Sri Lankan conflict- Simran Chadha 21 On Umasangit- Nilofer Kaul 22 Affirmative Multiplicities: Towards an Anthropocene Theory of Corporeality- Brijesh Rana
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early Women Psychoanalysts
Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women''s education, politics, and migration.The book''s first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Beata Rank, remembered largely as someone''s wife, lover, or muse; and the second part sheds light on women such as Margarethe Hilferding, Tatiana Rosenthal, and Erzsébet Farkas, who took strong political stances. In the third section, the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpinska-Woyczynska, Nic Waal, Barbara Low, and Vilma Kovács are discussed in the context of their importance for the early Freudian movement; and in the final section, the lives of Eugenia Sokolnicka, Sophie Morgenstern, Alberta Szalita, and Olga Wermer are examined in relation to migration and exile, trauma, loss, and memory.With a clear focus upon the continued importance of these women for psyc
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Designed Self
Book SynopsisWhat can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger''s therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender identity. In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. At once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self investigTrade Review"In his book, The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults."—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches."—International Journal of Psychoanalysis"Carlo Strenger has written an engaging and truly original book that offers some provocative ideas about reconstructing psychoanalysis in the context of a fast-changing world. Strenger argues persuasively that the culture of 'Generation X' is very different from that in which psychoanalysis evolved, or even that with which the middle-aged analyst of today is familiar. With compelling clinical examples and wide-ranging scholarship and erudition, Strenger puts forth a vision of a psychoanalysis that innovates, like the new generation itself, without giving up its connection to its own tradition. This book is essential reading for all therapists who want to stay current with the lives of their patients."- Neil Altman, Ph.D., Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues“With intellectual and stylistic grace, Carlo Strenger weaves a seamless web of good story and compelling thought. Open to the changing cosmos he and his patients inhabit, he speaks with equal ease of clinical process, psychotherapeutic technique, and theories philosophical, social, and psychoanalytic. Continuing in the cosmopolitan tradition of Civilization and Its Discontents, The Designed Self shows us the dialectical process by which psychoanalysis illuminates and changes the very world it belongs to and is thereby changed itself.” - Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., Author, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Analytic Press, 2003)"Strenger challenges psychoanalysis and culture, daring us to live in new ways yet not to leave ourselves behind. The Designed Self is not only an edifying read but a thoroughly enjoyable one."- Michael Eigen, Ph.D., Editor, The Psychoanalytic ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women of Asia
Book SynopsisWith thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity is a comprehensive anthology that contributes significantly to understanding globalization's transformative process and the resulting detrimental and beneficial consequences for women in the four major geographic regions of AsiaEast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eurasia/Central Asiaas it gives voice to women and provides innovative ways through which salient understudied issues pertaining to Asian women's situation are brought to the forefront.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I: Introduction and Overviews of Women in Asia; Chapter 1: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity: A Thematic Perspective on Women of Asia; Chapter 2: Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Agenda in Asia; Chapter 3: Gendering Aid and Development Policy: Official Understanding of Gender Issues in Foreign Aid Programs in Asia; Part II: East Asia; Chapter 4: Globalization and Gender Equity in China; Chapter 5: China’s "State Feminism" in Context: The All-China Women’s Federation From Inception to Current Challenges; Chapter 6: Gender Equality and the Limits of Law in Securing Social Change in Hong Kong; Chapter 7: Women’s Experiences of Balancing Work and Family in South Korea: Continuity and Change; Chapter 8: Gender Equality in the Japanese Workplace: What Has Changed Since 1985?; Chapter 9: Addressing Women’s Health through Economic Opportunity: Lessons from Women Engaged in Sex Work in Mongolia; Part III: Southeast Asia; Chapter 10: Women, Globalization, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia; Chapter 11: Adapting Human Rights: Gender-Based Violence and Law in Indonesia; Chapter 12: Experiences of Financial Vulnerability and Empowerment among Women who were Trafficked in the Philippines; Chapter 13: Women as Natural Caregivers? Migration, Healthcare Workers, and Eldercare in Singapore; Chapter 14: Elected Women Politicians in Singapore’s Parliament: An Analysis of Socio-Demographic Profile; Chapter 15: Globalization and Increased Informalization of Labor: Women in the Informal Economy in Malaysia; Chapter 16: Women Politicians in Cambodia: Resisting and Negotiating Power in a Newly "Implemented" Democracy; Chapter 17: Freedom to Choose? Marriage and Professional Work among Urban Middle-Class Women in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Chapter 18: Entrepreneurial Women in Lao PDR; Chapter 19: Persisting Inequality, Rural Transformation, and Gender Relations in the Northeast of Thailand; Chapter 20: Challenging Gender Inequalities through Education and Activism: Exploring the Work of Women's Organizations in Myanmar's Transition; Part IV: South Asia; Chapter 21: Young Women’s Situation and Patriarchal Bargains: The Story of a Son-Less Family in Rural Bangladesh; Chapter 22: Livelihoods, Households, and Womanhood in Nepal; Chapter 23: Negotiating Gendered Violence in the Public Spaces of Indian Cities: Globalization and Urbanization in Contemporary India; Chapter 24: The Promises and Pitfalls of Microfinance in Pakistani Women’s Lives; Chapter 25: Afghan Women: The Politics of Empowerment in the Post-2001 Era; Part V: Eurasia and Central Asia; Chapter 26: Women in Azerbaijan: Decades of Change and Challenges; Chapter 27: Female Religious Leaders in Uzbekistan: Recalibrating Desires and Effecting Social Change; Chapter 28: Project Kelin: Marriage, Women, and Re-Traditionalization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Chapter 29: "Women Move the Cradle with One Hand and with the Other, the World!" Methodological Reflections on "The Woman Question" in Tajikistan; Chapter 30: Tradition, Islam, and the State: International Organizations and the Prevention of Violence against Women in Tajikistan; Chapter 31: Rural Women’s Encounters with Economic Development in Kyrgyzstan; Chapter 32: Women as Change Agents: Gender in Post-Soviet Central Asia; Notes on Contributors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Inequality in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisRecent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women's career and family choices. While an important topic, these works? ?are critiqued for being particularly attentive to the concerns of middle-class, heterosexual, White women and ignoring or erasing the issues and experiences of the vast majority of women throughout the United States (and other countries). ?Women and Inequality in the 21st Century is an edited collection that addresses this dearth in the current literature. This book examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a nexus of power relations. It addresses the experiences of immigrant women of color, aging women, normative gender constraints faced by lesbian and gender non-conforming individuals assigned the female gender at birth, religious constrTrade ReviewWomen and Inequality in the 21st Century draws from the best traditions of feminist scholar-activism, while reorienting focus toward topics and groups that to-date have received less attention in the scholarship on gender inequality than is warranted, and indeed necessary. With chapters spanning a unique range of formats — from interviews with prominent gender scholars, to novel empirical studies and self-reflexive narratives — the text is at once accessible, theoretically nuanced, and highly engaging. Slatton and Brailey have generated an innovative volume from an incredible diversity of scholars addressing the many margins and complex positionalities that constitute contemporary womanhood today. Jennifer Mueller, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Intergroup Relations Program, Skidmore CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Inequality and the Complex Positionalities of 21st Century Women Part I. An Unrealized Democracy 1. Beauty and the Beast of Inequality: A Historical Synopsis of Women’s Images as Barriers in American Labor, Politics and Entertainment 2. Proper Defectum Sexus: Male Privilege over a Woman’s Body 3. Democracy, Power, and Work Part 2: Negotiating Inequitable Terrain 4. Unfiltered: Male Strangers’ Sexist Behavior Towards Women 5. I am American! Taiwanese Immigrant Women Battling Everyday Racism 6. Queer Faces, Unsafe Spaces: Everyday Discrimination Experiences of Lesbian and Gender Non-Conforming Women 7. But I'm the Lucky One: A Narrative 8. Actors of Discourse: Gender Performativity in Women’s Leadership 9. The Cultural Negotiations of Gender through Religion among Algerian Kabyle Part 3. Psychosocial Effects of Inequality 10. Hair Stress: Physical and Mental Health Correlates of African American Women’s Hair Care Practices 11. Gender, Arthritis and Feelings of Sexual Obligation in Older Women 12. I’m a Survivor’: Reconsidering Identity, Stigma, and Institutions for Domestic Violence Part 4. Key Debates in Women’s Inequality 13. Is there Liberation for the Single, Saved, and Sexually Repressed 14. Sex Work: Free and Equal? 15. Reclaiming Women’s Rights to Freedom of Religion: An Assessment of the Political and Legal Complexities Affecting the Domestication of CEDAW and the AU Women’s Protocol in Nigeria Part 5. Pushing Back: Resistance and Activism 16. I’m Going to Get What I Want: Black Women’s Sexual Agency as a Form of Resistance 17. Raise Your Banner High! Mounting a Take Back the Night Event: Civic Engagement and Feminist Practice on a University Campus 18. Insisting on Intersectionality in the Vagina Monologues
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Politeness in EighteenthCentury England
Book SynopsisThis first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women's possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Framing the Stage: Politeness and the Body 2. Gendered Politeness and Power 3. Hypocrisy and Strategic Dissimulation 4. Playing with Public and Private 5. Multiple Identities 6. Discipline and Subversion. Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lived Experiences of Women in Academia
Book SynopsisLived Experiences of Women in Academia shares meaningful stories of women working in the academy, from numerous disciplines, backgrounds and countries, to unveil the complex and distinct dimensionalities they experience in their life and work. Chapters are written using a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including metaphor, manifesto and memoir, with reflections inspired by textiles, online blogs and forums, theatre, creative writing, fiction and popular culture. They engage with themes and ideas including gender roles, family-making, work-life balance, motherhood, institutional violence and harassment and the self and identity, revealing how these uniquely manifest for women in academia. This collection takes account of the experiences of female academics from previous decades and the experiences of those to come, as well as those outside the academic system entirely. Lived Experiences of Women in Academia aims to lTable of ContentsList of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Uncreatively writing women’s lives in academia; Chapter 2 Mothers, scholars and feminists: inside and outside the Australian academic system; Chapter 3 The lecturer’s new clothes: an academic life, in textiles; Chapter 4 You’re doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries; Chapter 5 "Going to see": an academic woman researching her own kind; Chapter 6 ‘If these walls could talk’: looking in, walking out, and reimagining a broken system; Chapter 7 Motherhood and academia: a story of bodily fluids and going with the flow; Chapter 8 Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the Global South: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia; Chapter 9 In the spirit of shared solidarity: women in academia and transformation; Chapter 10 Playing in the corridors of academia; Chapter 11 An academic career: looking back and looking forward; Chapter 12 Identity and inclusion in academia: voices of migrant women; Chapter 13 Trauma in the academy; Chapter 14 A woman in academia: . . . and what about the children?; Chapter 15 Not a matter of will: a narrative and cross-cultural exploration of maternal ambivalence; Chapter 16 Being a mother, becoming a university teacher: traversing the terrain to knowing oneself; Chapter 17 Metaphors for women’s experiences of early career academia: Buffy, Alice, and Frankenstein’s creature; Chapter 18 The double life of a casual academic; Afterword; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Youngest Citizens
Book SynopsisThe Youngest Citizens traces the historical evolution of children's rights in Latin America before turning its focus to the dramatic shift in discourse and policy experienced by the continent in the last 20 years. This book explores the new global regime on childhood, child advocates' sustained efforts to influence domestic policy, the ongoing challenges they face, and the implications for democracy and citizenship in Latin America. Risley addresses the disconnect between rights granted and the realities that young people face through in-depth case studies of child advocacy and legislation to prove that rights in theory do not suffice; the status of children must be improved in practice. Key issues are discussed, such as child labor in Bolivia and Brazil, child soldiers in Colombia, child sexual exploitation in Costa Rica and Mexico, and unaccompanied child migrants detained at the United States' southern border. The Youngest CitizensTrade Review"In just over a hundred pages, [Amy Risley] manages to summarize key currents in the general evolution of normative approaches to children and their place in South and Central American society, and to contextualize these within detailed accounts of particular topics and localities. An accessible and engaged description of key children’s rights issues and their relevance to Latin America, Risley’s The Youngest Children deserves attention by teachers, journalists and other interested professionals concerned with the circumstances of some of the most vulnerable members of Latin American societies.[…]The Youngest Citizens makes crystal clear, the contradictions and challenges remain pressing and urgent, for the still fragile democracies in Latin America and for all their citizens, old and young."A Review by Jacqueline Bhabha, ReVista, Harvard University, USATable of ContentsChapter One: The Rights and Well-Being of Children in Latin America Chapter Two: Children’s Rights are Human Rights: The Consolidation of a Global Childhood Regime Chapter Three: The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Argentina Chapter Four: The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Uruguay Chapter Five: The Youngest Laborers: Child Labor and Child Poverty in Latin America Chapter Six: The Youngest Laborers: Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Soldiering in Latin America Chapter Seven: The Youngest Migrants: Children and Teens Seeking Entry Into the United States Chapter Eight: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Distant Alliances
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support for educating girls and women in Latin America. Bringing a timely and readable account of the strategies pursued, the authors show how the strength of the women''s movement has influenced the education of women and girls, and thus has helped to reduce poverty and strengthen the citizenship of women in developing countries. The book''s overview of recent initiatives, along with its illuminating case studies of developing nations, offers the reader a window into educational reform and the realities of social change in Latin America.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I: Gender Equity in Education Policy; Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay; Gender Equity in Bolivian Educational Policies; Public Policy and Adult Education for Women in Brazil; II: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Education of Adult Women; Learning for the Construction of a Feminist Agenda within Organizations in Civil Society; Other Ways to Be Teachers, Mothers, and Fathers; Educating about Gender; Leadership Training; From the Local to the Global and the Global to the Local; III: International Development Agencies and Gender Equity in Education for Women and Girls in Latin America; Global Priorities and Local Predicaments in Education; UNESCO and the Education of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Restructuring Bilateral Aid for the Twenty-First Century; USAID Efforts to Expand and Improve Girls’ Primary Education in Guatemala; Ambiguities in Compensatory Policies; Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Somali Muslim British
Book SynopsisSomalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain and beyond. Somali, Muslim, British shifts attention away from these public representations to provide a detailed ethnographic study of Somali Muslim women's engagements with religion, political discourses, and public culture in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the aspirations of different generations of Somali women as they respond to publicly charged questions of what it means to be Muslim, Somali, and British. By challenging and reconfiguring the dominant political frameworks in which they are immersed, these women imagine new ways of being in securitized Britain. Giulia Liberatore provides a nuanced account of Islamic piety, arguing that it needs to be understood as one among many Trade ReviewIn this fine ethnography, Giulia Liberatore traces Somali women’s explorations of their Islamic tradition across generations and across London, as they critically assess diverse teachers and preachers. All those interested in Muslims in the West should read this lucid and penetrating analysis. * John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA *At the heart of this ethnography lies the ways in which Somali women in London strive to embody new forms of moral Muslim womanhood in an environment that, even as it offers opportunities, also stereotypes and others them. Thoughtfully conceptualized and contextualized, skilfully woven into the wider historiographies on Somalia and the Somali and Muslim diaspora, and couched in vivid and accessible language, this book is a must-read for specialist and general readers alike. * Lidwien Kapteijns, Wellesley College, USA *In this important and detailed contribution, Liberatore very much gives the floor to her research participants. What emerges perhaps challenges some of the conventional thought around Islam and Muslims in Britain, and certainly ensures that British Somali Muslims cannot be an afterthought in British Muslim identity politics or research agendas. * Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Language1. Introduction2. An Ethnography with Somali Women in London3. Memories of Modern Mogadishu4. Tuition Centres and Somali Mosques: Raising Good Daughters in London5. Updating Soomaalinimo: Young Somalis and the Problematization of Culture6. Mosque Hopping: Seeking Islamic Knowledge in London7. Multiculturalism, British Values, and the Muslim Subject8. Imagining an Ideal Husband9. Beyond PreventReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Work and Pensions What is Good What is
Book SynopsisHow different are fe/male life courses, and why? What is good, bad, or best for women under these or probable future circumstances? This ground-breaking book explores the difficulties women face in working life and retirement - and asks what can be done to achieve more gender equality and fairness for women and men alike. Leading pension experts from across Europe analyse the basic challenges through single and comparative country studies. The editors provide facts and figures on women''s lives, work and pensions and draw theoretical lessons and practical policy conclusions from the studies and gendered statistical indicators.Trade Review'At a time when pension reform, coverage and adequacy are high on the socio-economic and political agenda... this publication fills an important gap by looking at the impact of the pension reforms on half of the population, which is all too frequently exposed to poverty in old age.' Transfer 'Of special interest in the chapters on single country and comparative studies is Gould’s conclusion that partial disability benefits can contribute to labour market participation and thus to income in retirement... Some of the chapters and a comprehensive annex are packed full of voluminous data; a treasure trove for students, teachers and researchers... the highly detailed discussion of specific situations enables broad trends to be identified and broad conclusions to be drawn, making it a most useful volume.' Citizen's Income 'While the book is devoted to pension and retirement issues, it also paints a broad picture of gender differences in everyday lives, especially with respect to retirement. ... nicely summarises the main conclusions regarding the implications of pension changes on women's lives, emphasizing again the complexity in drawing conclusions as to what is best for women. ... Taken together, Women's Work and Pensions is a fine collection of studies which together give an interesting and revealing account of pension arrangements and their possible implications on women's lives. As such, the book serves as a valuable resource for those interested in gender inequalities and how they evolve over time.' International Journal of Social WelfareTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction: General trends in pension reform around the millennium and their impact on women, Bernd Marin. Part II General Contributions: A discussion of retirement income security for men and women, Annika Sundén; Women and pensions. Effects of pension reforms on women's retirement security, Elsa Fornero and Chiara Monticone; Poverty amongst older women and pensions policy in the European Union, Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior and Eszter Zólyomi. Part III Single and Comparative Country Studies: Pension system in Poland in the gender context, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak; The 1.000€ trap. Implications of Austrian social and tax policy on labour supply, Eva Pichler; Women's work and pensions: some empirical facts and figures. Austria in an international comparison, Michael Fuchs; Restricting pre-retirement - what about older women's ability to work?, Raija Gould. Part IV Some Preliminary Conclusions: What is Good, Bad, Best for Women?: Gender equality, neutrality, specificity and sensitivity - and the ambivalence of benevolent welfare paternalism, Bernd Marin. Part V Annex: Some facts and figures on women's lives, work and pensions, Bernd Martin and Eszter Zólyomi (with Silvia Fässler and Katrin Gasior).
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Female Body: Inside and Outside
Book SynopsisThis book gathers together a number of cutting edge contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of femininity, the female body, sex and gender. It explores the female body in art, in pregnancy and motherhood, in sexuality and in the life-cycle, and finally the female body as scene of crime. As a result this book covers aspects of female creativity in its many aspects, both productive and generative and where there are difficulties or impediments. The psychoanalysts writing for this book have made an enormous contribution in the past and this book therefore aims to stimulate, challenge and provoke further discussion and new advances in this field.Trade Review'The Female Body: Inside and Outside addresses a topic that has fascinated and challenged psychoanalysis since its inception. Here, we find experienced clinicians reflecting on fertility and procreation, on maternal fantasies both generative and destructive, on the female life cycle, and on disturbances and perversions of female body and self. Several chapters focus on portrayals of female bodies in art, literature, and culture. Particularly welcome is the range of contributors from different countries, which shows how much our views of and attention to sexuality and embodiment are shaped by the psychoanalytic and cultural worlds from which we come. This volume shows us how inside and outside are both, in endlessly complex ways, part of female embodiment and its psychic representation.'- Nancy J Chodorow, PhD, training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, lecturer on psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Professor emerita of sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and author of several booksTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- The Female Body in Art -- The female body in Western art: adoration, attraction and horror -- How deep is the skin? Surface and depth in Lucian Freud’s female nudes -- Alberto Giacometti’s Caress/Despite the Hands: Developing and vanished life as a reversible figure—nucleus of an adequate expression of the struggle for the acknowledgment of space and time? -- Pregnancy and Motherhood -- The female cauldron: reproductive body schemata fore-grounded by infertility -- The Medea Fantasy: An evitable burden during prenatal diagnostics? Psychoanalysis, gender and medicine in dialogue -- Inside the mother’s womb: the Mother-Embryo-Dialogue -- The Body as a Scene of Crime -- The female body as cultural playground -- Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete)—or: rage, body and hysteria -- Vicissitudes of female revenge -- Sexuality and the Female Body in the Life Cycle -- Female sexuality beyond gender dichotomy -- Change and renewal in a woman’s life -- Menopause dreams -- Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lap Dancing
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of lap-dancing club culture, having worked as a lap-dancer both prior to, and during, the study. The book tells a fascinating tale of the author's experiences working as a lap dancer and the insights this has provided. This book projects a textured picture of working, socializing and living as a lap-dancer by following the dancer from the beginning of her career, to her eventual exit; providing a fluid and comprehensive examination of the occupation of lap-dancing. As well as building on the popular themes of 'dancer motivation', 'dancer exploitation/empowerment' and risk already embedded in existing literature, this book also offers completely new insight into this industry by drawing attention to the occupational subculture of which lap-dancers at 'Starlets' were found to be a part. This book is recommended for anyone studying or researching in this field.Trade Review'This is an important study of the occupational culture of lap-dancing. We learn how dancers do their job, manage their identity and membership of a community, their motivations for 'stripping' overtime, and how women manage the 'players' of the lap-dancing world. Dirty Dancing provides a truly authentic, detailed and original account by a 'dance-ethnographer' of how the lap-dancing industry sits within the British night time economy.' – Dr Teela Sanders, University of Leeds'This book, which presents one of the first accounts of lap-dancing within the United Kingdom, proved to be very interesting. Because the vast majority of studies related to stripping and strippers are confined to the United States, this work offers invaluable insights for both scholars of deviance and comparative criminal justice alike. Colosi’s examination of the lap-dancing subculture proves to be unique and offers an in-depth, insider’s perspective of adult entertainment. In spite of the fact that Colosi was employed as a dancer during the course of her study, she presents her findings in an objective and unbiased manner. Her work is also comprehensive in that it examines lap-dancing from the perspectives of managers, customers, and of course, the dancers themselves. It is likely that this book will find a strong audience within the disciplines of sociology, human sexuality, and criminal justice and may very well be regarded as a classic in the years to come. For these reasons, I strongly recommend Dirty Dancing.' – Robert M. Worley, Texas A&M University Central TexasTable of Contents1. Introducing the Ethnography – Working and Researching in a 'Deviant' Occupation 2. Lap-dancing and the Night-time Economy 3. Rules, Contracts and Players 4. Introducing Starlets: A Lap-dancing Club Setting Karen's Story – Part 1: Starting Out 5. Becoming a Dancer Karen's Story – Part 2: Working at Starlets 6. Learning to Lap-Dance: An Apprenticeship 7. Experiencing Lap-dancing 8. Being Established Karen's Story – Part 3: Leaving Starlets 9. Leaving Starlets 10. Lap-dancing – Complex and Contradictory. Epilogue: The Last Dance ...
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writings in North Africa and the
Book SynopsisContinuing our series on Women''s Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writings in PostNapoleonic France
Book SynopsisThis eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Creative Feminine and her Discontents:
Book SynopsisThis book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the artistic community to discover new ways for the creative feminine to grow and assesses how ideas of destruction and anarchy are crucial for the expression of a feminine self. The work of two contemporary sculptors, Cornelia Parker and Louise Bourgeois, is explored to show how there can be authentic relationships to creativity through the ideas of deconstruction and reconstruction in their work. This book will interest psychotherapists and analysts and both women and men interested in their own relationship to their creativity.Trade Review'Juliet Miller's book makes a vital contribution to the important but neglected area of the female creative process. She explores with strength and sensitivity those issues and taboos that often challenge or frustrate women's creativity within relationships, motherhood, infertility, the workplace, therapeutic and psychoanalytic communities and the wider artistic world. By examining the ways in which female creative drives and their repressed emotions of aggression and destructiveness transform matter - that most feminine material - into images and works of art that are subversive and spiritual, Miller provides new insight into the art of leading female artists Louise Bourgeois and Cornelia Parker. A must for readers interested in the creative feminine.' - Diane Finiello Zervas, Jungian Analyst, Art Historian 'This passionate yet lucid account includes critical insights into the ways feminine creativity is under attack in the arts, motherhood and the shadow side of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Miller holds up a looking glass to the latter which reflects the pathological face of psychoanalysis where it is contaminated by unconscious power drives. The book is recommended reading for all those seeking to realise their creative potential.' - Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsContents1 The search for a voice2 Using a voice3 The dilemma of motherhood4 The problem of infertility5 History, Gender and Relating6 Patriarchy and Hate in Training Institutes7 Power and Vulnerability in the Work of Louise Bourgeois 8 Creative Destruction in the Work of Cornelia Parker
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Cambridge University Press War and Gender How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
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Cambridge University Press Women Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England 46 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 46
Book SynopsisWomen, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, Mary Erler illustrates the ways in which women read and the routes by which they passed books from hand to hand. These stories are prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and are followed by a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to religious women's ownership. Erler's narratives also provide studies of female friendship, since they situate women's reading in a network of family and social connections. The book uses bibliography to explore social and intellectual history.Trade Review'Mary Erler's discussion offers both new information and new ways of thinking about it.' The Ricardian'… excellent and ground-breaking case studies offered in each chapter … the evidence that this book yields is going to be essential to a better understanding of reading practices in the late-medieval period … The author should be praised for delivering such a wealth of information …'. Medium Aevum'… elegant and useful … Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England was a pleasure to read and ought to be on every medieval English scholar's bookshelf.' Canadian Journal of History'Women, Reading, and Piety is an interesting and compelling study … Erler has succeeded with this work, and provided her readers with a considered, highly detailed, frequently provocative, and undeniably important contribution to women's literary and social history.' Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary'… not only sets forth a compelling argument about the place of reading in medieval women's lives, but also opens up promising venues for future research … a pleasure to read … Erler's book provides persuasive answers to many questions surrounding women's reading practices.' Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist College'… rich and well-documented …'. Sharp News'… Erler's approach has much to offer the researcher interested in religion, spirituality, and indeed 'piety in late medieval England … Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England will be of as much interest to religious historians as it is to historians of the book. It is a thoughtful and reflective contribution to the history of female reading …'. The Library'Mary Erler's Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England offers a truly groundbreaking contribution to medieval studies.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer'This is an admirable book. It is well researched, well written, and well presented, and it represents a real advance in the ongoing re-evaluation of women's reading and literacy in late medieval England. … a fine piece of solid scholarship. It suggests a number of important avenues for further research, and it is a major contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the literary and intellectual culture of medieval religious women.' Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy'Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England illuminates a critical period in the development of a femaile reading public, and its appendices will doubtless facilitate further research in the field. This monograph should be widely read and admired by those interested in medieval book ownership and circulation, literacy, women's experience, and devotional culture.' SpeculumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Dinah's story; 1. Ownership and transmission of books: women's religious communities; 2. The library of a London vowess: Margery de Nerford; 3. A Norwich widow and her devout society: Margaret Purdans; 4. Orthodoxy: the Fettyplace sisters at Syon; 5. Heterodoxy: anchoress Katherine Manne and abbess Elizabeth Throckmorton; 6. Women owners or religious incunabula: the physical evidence; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Women Writing and the Public Sphere 1700 1830
Book SynopsisIn this book, an international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere between 1700 and 1830. Drawing on literary and visual evidence, contributors highlight the range of women's cultural activity during the period, from historiography, publishing and translation to philosophical and political writing.Trade Review"Nuanced and expertly argued, this collection clearly makes an important contribution to the scholarship of separate spheres." Albion"The twelve essays included in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere represent a remarkable range of research and recovery work... illuminating and scrupulously researched..." Jill Heyd-Stevenson, Wordsworth Circle"Fascinating." Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsList of illustrators; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: women, writing and representation Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Clíona Ó'Gallchoir and Penny Warburton; Part I. Women in the Public Eye: 1. Coffee-women, The Spectator and the public sphere in the early eighteenth century Markman Ellis; 2. Misses, murderesses and magdalens: women in the public eye Caroline Gonda; Part II. Consuming Arts: 3. The choice of Hercules: the polite arts and 'female excellence' in eighteenth-century London Charlotte Grant; 4. Representing culture: The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779) Elizabeth Eger; 5. A moral purchase: femininity, commerce and abolition, 1788–1792 Kate Davies; Part III. Learned Ladies: From Bluestockings to Cosmopolitan Intellectuals: 6. Bluestocking feminism Gary Kelly; 7. Catharine Macaulay: history, republicanism and the public sphere Susan Wiseman; 8. Gender, nation and revolution: Maria Edgeworth and Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis Clíona Ó Gallchoir; 9. Salons, Alps and Cordilleras: Helen Maria Williams, Alex von Humboldt and the discourse of Romantic travel Nigel Leask; Part IV. The Female Subject: 10. The most public sphere of all: the family Sylvana Tomaselli; 11. Theorising public opinion: Elizabeth Hamilton's model of self, sympathy and society Penny Warburton; 12. Intimate connections: scandalous memoirs and epistolary indiscretion Mary Jacobus; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Women and Property in Morocco Their Changing Relation to the Process of Social Stratification in the Middle Atlas 10 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Marriage Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
Book SynopsisYossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period.Trade Review'… Rapoport's study is a valuable and most welcome contribution to the literature on medieval Mamlūk society, especially with regard to the position of women in a patrilineal and patriarchal society.' Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and IslamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Marriage, divorce and the gender division of property; 2. Working women, single women and the rise of the female ribāt; 3. The monetization of marriage; 4. Divorce, repudiation and settlement; 5. Repudiation as public power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women
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Cambridge University Press Women in the Soviet Countryside Womens Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union 56 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press Feminists and Bureaucrats
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Cambridge University Press Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
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