| Description |
xxxiv, 683 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 760 |
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Garland reference library of social science ; v. 760.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-659) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Roles and statuses of women -- Feminist epistemology and research methods -- Conceptualizing change and equality in the "Third World" contexts -- World economy, patriarchy, and accumulation -- Reclaiming women's human rights -- Violence against women -- Women in transition to democracy -- Refugee and displaced women -- Women and war -- Gender justice -- Machismo in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Islam and women's roles -- Modernity and the mass media |
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-- Gender, nation, and race in film and video -- Women and health -- Women and morality trends --Reconceptualizing risk: a feminist analysis of HIV/AIDS -- Women's nutrition through the life cycle -- Fertility trends and factors affecting fertility -- Women and contraception -- Women's control over their bodies -- Women and migration -- Women in the city -- Allocation of labor and income in the family -- Female-headed households -- Childrearing practices -- Lives of |
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middle-aged women -- Theoretical and practical aspects in gender and aging -- Women in agricultural systems -- Women's experiences as small-scale entrepreneurs -- Women in the informal sector of the economy -- Women's labor incomes -- Sex segregation in the labor force -- New industrial labor processes and their gender implications -- Women and home work -- The impact of structural adjustment and economic reform on women -- Women's employment and multinational |
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corporation networks -- Global struggles for a healthy planet -- Women's role in natural-resources management -- Women and environmental activism -- Girls' educational access and attainment -- The explicit and the hidden school curriculum -- Higher education and professional preparation -- Women and literacy -- Women's participation in science and technology -- Informal and nonformal education -- Women in anticolonial movements -- International and bilateral aid agencies |
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-- Girls and international development -- The United Nations decade for women and beyond -- Women-centered nongovernmental and grass-roots organizations -- Training women for change and empowerment -- Women in some liberal modernizing Islamic countries -- Jewish and Palestinian women in Israeli society -- Women in West Africa -- Women in East Africa -- Women in Southern Africa, excluding South Africa -- Women in South Africa -- Women in India -- Women in South Asia: |
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Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal -- Women in China -- Women in South Korea -- Women in Central America -- Women in contemporary Cuba -- The women's movement in the Southern Cone and Brazil -- Women in Oceania -- Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women -- Beyond the debt crisis: structural transformation -- A woman's creed: the declaration of the women's global strategies meeting -- Commitments for social development -- The Beijing |
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Declaration. |
| Subject |
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Developing countries.
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| Added Author |
Stromquist, Nelly P.
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| ISBN |
0815301502 alkaline paper |
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