The Crossroads of Class and Gender

The Crossroads of Class and Gender
Author: Lourdes Benería
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1987-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780226042329

In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Benería and Martha Roldán examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.

Development Crises and Alternative Visions

Development Crises and Alternative Visions
Author: Gita Sen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134156820

More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Man Woman Differences

Man Woman Differences
Author: Juan Moises de la Serna
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 154752586X

Man Woman Differences by Juan Moises de la Serna Discover the latest scientific findings on the differences between men and women To speak of gender is to speak of differences and similarities between men and women, a controversial aspect because sometimes it is about positioning one over the other. Science on the other hand is blind to these discussions centered on offering data and information about the similarities and differences between man and woman. This text offers the results from the latest investigations made by investigators around the world. Discover the latest that the scientific community has discovered about the differences between man and woman.

Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology
Author: Floretta Boonzaier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-07-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030200019

This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology. In doing so, it situates paradigms of thought and representation that capture the lived experiences of those in the global South. Specifically, the book takes an intersectional approach towards its reshaping of community psychology, centering African, black, postcolonial, and decolonial feminist critiques in its 1) critique of existing hegemonic Euro-American community psychology concepts, theories, and practice, 2) proposal of new feminist, indigenous, and decolonial methodological approaches, and 3) real-life examples of engagement, research, dialogue, and reflexive qualitative psychology practice. The book concludes with an agenda for theorization and research for future practice in postcolonial contexts. The volume is relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students in psychology, anthropology, sociology, public health, development studies, social work, urban studies, and women’s and gender studies across global contexts.

On Modern Women and Their Rights

On Modern Women and Their Rights
Author: Carmen de Burgos
Publisher: Escribana Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940075624

In this book, Carmen de Burgos elaborates extensive and erudite arguments to counter the anti-feminist assertions that female difference leads of necessity to inferiority. She challenges the phrenological definition of women as intellectually inferior to men by bringing to bear recent findings which point to the fallacy of a direct relationship between the size of the brain and an individual's intelligence. She refutes the notion that women are by nature, due to their nervous system, more volatile and passionate than men by highlighting the numbers of crimes of passion committed by men as opposed to women, and noting that it is men who start wars and abuse their mates. Burgos also provides a historical overview of women's participation in important historical and cultural movements. This volume has been carefully edited and translated by professor Gabriela Pozzi and Keith Watts from Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Gender Mosaic

Gender Mosaic
Author: Daphna Joel
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0316534625

With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain. For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or larger than in men, or because they have more or less of this or that hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true? According to neuroscientist Daphna Joel, it's not. And in Gender Mosaic, she sets forth a bold and compelling argument that debunks the notion of female and male brains. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, including the groundbreaking results of her own studies, Dr. Joel explains that every human brain is a unique mixture -- or mosaic -- of "male" and "female" features, and that these mosaics don't map neatly into two categories. With urgent practical implications for the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, Gender Mosaic is a fascinating look at the science of gender, sex and the brain, and at how freeing ourselves from the gender binary can help us all reach our full human potential.

Estereotipos de género en el trabajo

Estereotipos de género en el trabajo
Author: Viladot Presas, M. Àngels
Publisher: Editorial UOC
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8491164413

El objetivo de Estereotipos de género en el trabajo es aportar respuestas a la pregunta de por qué no hay igualdad de género en el ámbito laboral, teniendo también en cuenta que la educación secundaria y postsecundaria de las mujeres es igual a la de los hombres. Más específicamente, el objetivo de M. Àngels Viladot y Melanie C. Steffens ha sido analizar los factores y mecanismos que conducen a la discriminación de las mujeres en lo referente a sus carreras profesionales. Las autoras cubren magistralmente los aspectos y enfoques más importantes de la investigación en esta área desde la perspectiva de la psicología social. Concluyen con una metáfora de «la mujer corredora de carreras de obstáculos», una lucha en la que una mujer tiene que superar muchos escollos para tener éxito.

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities
Author: Rachel Sieder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136191577

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.