Modernisation and Status of Working Women in India

Modernisation and Status of Working Women in India
Author: Anita Sharma
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788170992387

El objetivo basico de este estudio es evaluar la posicion de la mujer trabajadora en india a la luz de la modernizacion. Las conclusiones del informe son extraidas del estudio de alrededor de 200 trabajadoras en nueva delhi con diferentes categorias profesionales. Los descubrimientos basicos de la investigacion confirman las hipotesis iniciales: La mujer con trabajo y educacion tiene un punto de vista diferente sobre la sociedad actual; la mujer trabajadora esta mas proclive a la occidentalizacion que la no trabajadora; cuando crece la independencia economica cambian las actitudes entre las mujeres acerca del status de la mujer en la sociedad. Contiene bibliografia.

Women in the Metropolis

Women in the Metropolis
Author: Katharina von Ankum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520917606

Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.

The New Japanese Woman

The New Japanese Woman
Author: Barbara Sato
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-04-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780822330448

DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div

Modernizing Women

Modernizing Women
Author: Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2003
Genre: Muslim women
ISBN: 9781588261717

Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."

Remaking Modernity

Remaking Modernity
Author: Julia Adams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2005-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822333630

DIVA sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, trans/div

Chinese Society

Chinese Society
Author: Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 041556073X

This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance & protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history & political science, & covers issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict & suicide.

Women Workers and Global Restructuring

Women Workers and Global Restructuring
Author: Kathryn B. Ward
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780875461625

Since economists traditionally focus on market activities, women's non-wage labour has not been registered in works on economic development. On the other hand, women's wage labour has been described as supplementary or marginal to the household income as well as to economic development as a whole. The contributors to this collection did their research on women workers in countries from the core, the semiperiphery, and the periphery. The eight articles are introduced by Kathryn Ward, who presents a critical overview of the literature on women workers and globalization. In Ward's opinion we have to develop new definitions for some key concepts in our theories on women and work. These concepts should aim at including housework and work in the informal sector, and women's various acts of resistance. Ward also suggests new perspectives from which we should theorize about women's work in the process of global restructuring.

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 0889369100

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.

Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe
Author: Amy C. Alexander
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319640062

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women’s political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.

George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture

George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture
Author: Emma Liggins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351933981

George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siècle London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his realist representations of urban culture testify to the significance of the city for the development of new class and gender identities, particularly for women. Liggins's study, which considers standard texts such as The Odd Women, New Grub Street, and The Nether World as well as lesser known short works, examines Gissing's fiction in relation to the formation of these new identities, focusing specifically on debates about the working woman. From the 1880s onward, a new genre of urban fiction increasingly focused on work as a key aspect of the modern woman's identity, elements of which were developed in the New Woman fiction of the 1890s. Showing his fascination with the working woman and her narrative potential, Gissing portrays women from a wide variety of occupations, ranging from factory girls, actresses, prostitutes, and shop girls to writers, teachers, clerks, and musicians. Liggins argues that by placing the working woman at the center of his narratives, rather than at the margins, Gissing made an important contribution to the development of urban fiction, which increasingly reflected current debates about women's presence in the city.