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Author : Ann E. Towns
Release : 2010-06-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and States by : Ann E. Towns
Download or read book Women and States written by Ann E. Towns. This book was released on 2010-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe.
Author : Sue Ellen M. Charlton
Release : 1989-07-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, the State, and Development by : Sue Ellen M. Charlton
Download or read book Women, the State, and Development written by Sue Ellen M. Charlton. This book was released on 1989-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the most current scholarship on states, socioeconomic development, and feminist theory to emerge this decade. Addressed are issues such as the role of state policies and ideologies in defining gender differences, state influence over the boundaries between public and domestic spheres, state control over women's productive and reproductive lives, and the efforts of women to influence state policy. Women, the State, and Development shows that state elites promote male domination as one way of maintaining social order when nation-states are created and strengthened, and that issues defined as male by the sexual division of labor are given priority in state policies that promote security and economic development such as foreign policy, international trade, agricultural development, and resource extraction. It analyzes these policies in terms of their impact on gender relations and also identifies ways in which women have responded.
Author : Linda Gordon
Release : 2012-11
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, the State, and Welfare by : Linda Gordon
Download or read book Women, the State, and Welfare written by Linda Gordon. This book was released on 2012-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.
Author : Mounira Charrad
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis States and Women's Rights by : Mounira Charrad
Download or read book States and Women's Rights written by Mounira Charrad. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies. Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights. This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.
Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Release : 1993-11-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, the State and Revolution by : Wendy Z. Goldman
Download or read book Women, the State and Revolution written by Wendy Z. Goldman. This book was released on 1993-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.
