Ambition and Accommodation

Ambition and Accommodation
Author: Roberta S. Sigel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1996-05-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780226756950

By juxtaposing the voices of women and men from all walks of life, Sigel finds that women's perceptions of gender relations are complex and often contradictory. Although most women see gender discrimination pervading nearly all social interactions - private as well as public - they do not invariably feel that they personally have been its victims.

Bodies of Knowledge

Bodies of Knowledge
Author: Wendy Kline
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0226443086

Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, women argued that unless they gained information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the centre of women's liberation.

Gender and Scientific Authority

Gender and Scientific Authority
Author: Barbara Laslett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1996
Genre: Feminism
ISBN:

Feminist scholars have long recognized the importance of addressing science in both theory and practice.

Genderscapes

Genderscapes
Author: Sumi Krishna
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Ecofeminism
ISBN: 9789383074754

Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. "Genderscapes" looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, including the socialization of attitudes, the shaping of community ideologies, and the construction of disciplines and research methodologies. Sumi Krishna puts forward the novel concept of genderscapes to reflect the totality of women s life worlds, and she builds her use of the concept on a group of rich case studies, including the caring practices of forest-dwellers, women s knowledge of biodiversity, and their widespread responsibility for farming and food production. Women s economic needs cannot be separated from their sociopolitical interests, Krishna showsand only by looking at them as a whole can we solve the problem of discrimination."

Educated in Romance

Educated in Romance
Author: Dorothy C. Holland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0226349446

Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance" on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.

Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics
Author: Kate Millett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231541724

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

Voices and Values

Voices and Values
Author: Ratna M. Sudarshan
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Evaluation
ISBN: 9789385932397

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities--gender, caste, class, location, and more--and the cumulative effect of these biases on daily life. Such evaluations are also deeply political; they explicitly acknowledge that gender-based inequalities exist, show how they remain embedded in society, and articulate ways to address them. Based on four years of research, Voices and Values offers critical insight into how gender, class, and nationality inflect and affect sociological research. It examines how feminist evaluations could make an effective contribution to new policy formulations oriented to gender and social equity. The essays here focus centrally on the structural roots of inequity: giving weight to all perspectives; adding value to marginalized groups and people under evaluation; and taking forward the findings of evaluation into advocacy for change. In doing so, each essay advances the understanding of feminist evaluation both conceptually and as practice.

Women's Science

Women's Science
Author: Margaret A. Eisenhart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1998-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226195457

Are there places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years document a gender gap in science and engineering, showing women's interest in these fields declines from grade school to adulthood. WOMEN'S SCIENCE expands our conception of scientific practice as it reconfigures both women's role in science and the meaning of science in contemporary society.

Brokered Subjects

Brokered Subjects
Author: Elizabeth Bernstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022657380X

Brokered Subjects digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein sheds light not only on trafficking but also on the broader structures that meld the ostensible pursuit of liberation with contemporary techniques of power. Rather than any meaningful commitment to the safety of sex workers, Bernstein argues, what lies behind our current vision of trafficking victims is a transnational mix of putatively humanitarian militaristic interventions, feel-good capitalism, and what she terms carceral feminism: a feminism compatible with police batons.

Women and the Law

Women and the Law
Author: Susan Atkins
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780855201807