Global Status of Women and Girls

Lori Underwood is professor of philosophy and dean of the College of Arts & Humanities at Christopher Newport University.Dawn Hutchinson is professor of philosophy and religious studies at Christopher Newport University.

The Global Status of Women and Girls is a necessary intervention in the scholarship on women and girls globally. By using a multi-disciplinary approach, the contributors are able to show the complexity of issues that women and girls face in their everyday lives from continued gender stereotypes, gender bias, violence, sexual assault, religious and political limits, and bitter attacks on women's activism. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the power of patriarchy in shaping our world and see its effects on lives of individual women and girls.

• ContentsIntroductionDawn Hutchinson & Lori UnderwoodChapter 1: Dressing the Wound: Dynamics of Sexual Abuse and Recovery within Religious Enclaves”Carolyn Stauffer & Bridget MullinsChapter 2: Ecofeminism: An AnalysisLida SarafrazarpatapehChapter 3: Feminization of Poverty in Pakistan: Sociological AnalysisHamadullah KakepotoChapter 4: Multi-Culturalism and Feminism in Arab-American Poetry: Struggling against StereotypesNadia MohammedChapter 5: Women Religious Working Toward a More Just Women’s Health Care SystemDawn HutchinsonChapter 6: Matrilineal-Matrilocal Arrangements May End Trafficking in Women and ChildrenYasuko SatoChapter 7: Gender Representation in Indian Films: A Response to ‘Gender Bias Without BordersRebecca PetersChapter 8: Perspectives on the Facets of Status of Women in IndiaSimi MehtaChapter 9: Do Muslim Village Girls Need Saving? Critical Reflections on Gender and Childhood Suffering in International AidRania Kassab SweisChapter 10: Women, Agriculture, and Food SecurityJosefa CarandangAbout the Editors and Contributors