Women's Studies at York Series – serie
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29 produkter
Working-Class Lesbian Life
Classed Outsiders
Inbunden, 2007
549 kr
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This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material …
What Women Want From Work
Gender and Occupational Choice in the 21st Century
Av R. Woodfield
Inbunden, 2007
549 kr
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Are current patterns within women's occupations a function of external limitations on initial ambitions, or do women simply prefer distinct types of work? Including case studies of fire fighting and teaching, this book offers a qualitative exploration of girls' and women's reported journeys towards …
Women's Rights and Religious Practice
Claims in Conflict
Av A. Boden
Inbunden, 2007
549 kr
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The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept …
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50
Av Andrew Gamble, Gillian Peele
Inbunden, 1995
1122 kr
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Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950. It considers the extent to which class, suburbanisation and historical moment as well as gender constructed women's understanding of …
Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World
Inbunden, 1999
1122 kr
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The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour market has increased the burdens on women, and …
Organising Feminisms
The Micropolitics of the Academy
Av L. Morley
Inbunden, 1999
1059 kr
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This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion …
International Perspectives On Gender and Democratisation
Av NA NA, Shirin M. Rai
Inbunden, 2000
548 kr
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International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization brings together the experience of women's democratic movements in different countries and regions, North and South, and assesses how different discourses of democracy have been used by women's groups to assert women's rights. Sensitive to …
Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World
Av Haleh Afshar, Afshar m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1092 kr
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The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular …
Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
The Kiss of Death
Av R. Stott
Inbunden, 1992
1879 kr
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This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siècle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's …
Women's Studies in the 1990s
Doing Things Differently?
Av Groot, Joanna de Groot m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1092 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection is concerned with important theoretical and methodological issues facing women's studies. Drawing on feminist theory and politics it addresses a range of questions raised for women's studies by work conducted in history, literature, politics and sociology. The …
Women in the Middle East
Perceptions, Realities and Struggles for Liberation
Av Afshar, Haleh Afshar
Inbunden, 1993
1092 kr
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This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in …
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50
Av Andrew Gamble, Gillian Peele
Häftad, 1995
1124 kr
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Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950. It considers the extent to which class, suburbanisation and historical moment as well as gender constructed women's understanding of …
Populism and Feminism in Iran
Women’s Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement
Häftad, 1996
342 kr
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Women presented the first effective challenge to the Islamic regime and the clerical authority in post-revolutionary Iran. Women's activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism. The Iranian …
Women and Empowerment
Illustrations from the Third World
Av Haleh Afshar
Inbunden, 1998
1092 kr
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The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political …
Women and Empowerment
Illustrations from the Third World
Av Haleh Afshar
Häftad, 1998
1092 kr
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The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political …
Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World
Inbunden, 1999
1092 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour market has increased the burdens on women, and …
Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World
Häftad, 1999
1092 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour market has increased the burdens on women, and …
Organising Feminisms
The Micropolitics of the Academy
Av L. Morley
Inbunden, 1999
1061 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist …
Organising Feminisms
The Micropolitics of the Academy
Av L. Morley
Häftad, 1999
1056 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist …
Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland
Av C. Davies, C. Roulston
Inbunden, 2000
549 kr
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Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations where their contribution has been outstanding. This book examines four organizations (including the recently-formed Northern Ireland Women's Coalition) …
Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland
Av C. Davies, C. Roulston
Häftad, 2000
549 kr
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Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations where their contribution has been outstanding. This book examines four organizations (including the recently-formed Northern Ireland Women's Coalition) …
Women and Revivalism in the West
Choosing ‘Fundamentalism’ in a Liberal Democracy
Av M. Franks
Inbunden, 2001
549 kr
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Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gender boundaries and roles and the blanket subjugation of women. This study aims particularly to …
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America
Inbunden, 2001
1092 kr
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This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding …
Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism
Av Anna Reading
Häftad, 1992
552 kr
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Examines Polish women's oppression before, on the cusp and after the collapse of communism. The book analyzes the relationship between Solidarity, state capitalism, nationalism and feminism by drawing on a wide variety of source material.
Working-Class Lesbian Life
Classed Outsiders
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material …
What Women Want From Work
Gender and Occupational Choice in the 21st Century
Av R. Woodfield
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Are current patterns within women's occupations a function of external limitations on initial ambitions, or do women simply prefer distinct types of work? Including case studies of fire fighting and teaching, this book offers a qualitative exploration of girls' and women's reported journeys towards …
Women's Rights and Religious Practice
Claims in Conflict
Av A. Boden
Häftad, 2007
603 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept …
Women and Revivalism in the West
Choosing ‘Fundamentalism’ in a Liberal Democracy
Av M. Franks
Häftad, 2001
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gender boundaries and roles and the blanket subjugation of women. This study aims particularly to …
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America
Häftad, 2002
1098 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding …
