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  • - Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System
    af Jennifer A. Reich
    625,95 - 1.992,95 kr.

    This book takes us inside America's Child Protective Services, for an in-depth look at the entire organization, examining the role of the agency from the initial dealing with a family, to the end when a case is discharged.

  • - Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism
    af Barbara Ryan
    740,95 kr.

    Barbara Ryan provides a brilliant historical and comparative analysis of the feminist movement in the USA, detailing its ideologies and activism from the suffage movement to the 1990s.

  • - Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
    af USA) Hill Collins & Patricia (University of Maryland
    302,95 - 2.077,95 kr.

    Explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. This book provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.

  • af Sue Tolleson Rinehart
    658,95 - 2.200,95 kr.

  • - Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960-1980
    af Natalie J. Sokoloff
    671,95 - 2.200,95 kr.

  • - Becoming and Being a Feminist
    af James Cook University, Queensland, Australia) Hercus & mfl.
    314,95 - 1.311,95 kr.

    Offers an insightful account of becoming and being a feminist. Specifically, the study focuses on Australian women from the ages of 18-35 and offers a new understanding of feminist identity in a globalised world. Hercus from James Cook University of Northern Queensland.

  • - Mothers Confront Divorce
    af Demie Kurz
    615,95 kr.

    For Richer for Poorer represents the experiences of divorced mothers in their own words. This book identifies their real concerns: inadequate resources from their ex-husbands and the state and unequal social policies.

  • - The Politics of Intimacy and Identity
     
    603,95 kr.

    Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.

  • - A Study of Convicted Rapists
    af Diana Scully
    589,95 - 1.787,95 kr.

    Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violence--for example, that childhood abuse, alcohol, and drugs are direct causes of rape.

  • - Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter
    af USA) Kenney & Sally J. (Tulane University
    611,95 - 1.988,95 kr.

  • - Gender and Organized Racism
     
    716,95 kr.

    The essays in this collection explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements and skinheads.

  • - The Politics of Intimacy and Identity
     
    1.983,95 kr.

    Discusses the various ways that sex and sexuality are regulated by government and society. From the clean up of Times Square to the sodomy statutes still on the books in many states, there are numerous methods for government to intervene and otherwise seek to influence sexuality and sexual behaviour.

  • - Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy
    af Leslie McCall
    616,95 kr.

    Complex Inequality sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring in the US to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race and class make in inequality.

  • af Lynn Prince Cooke
    656,95 - 1.975,95 kr.

  • - Raising Children in Rural America
    af Margaret Nelson
    538,95 - 1.778,95 kr.

    Examining the lives of single, working-class mothers in rural America, this book investigates the life of the still stigmatized single-mom. It finds that most rely on low-paid jobs, welfare, inconsistent child support, and help from family and friends just to get by as they often don't have enough money to provide for themselves or their children.

  • - Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling
    af Wendy Luttrell
    754,95 kr.

    Illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, this work describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that shape working-class life, schooling, and identity.

  • - Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil
    af Amherst, USA) Thayer & Millie (University of Massachussets
    537,95 - 1.971,95 kr.

    An ethnographic study that examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It tells the story of social actors purposefully weaving cross-border relationships.

  • - Gender and Organized Racism
     
    1.882,95 kr.

    The essays in this collection explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements, skinheads and more.

  • af Shira, Long Beach, Ph.D. (California State University & mfl.
    609,95 kr.

    A study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history.

  • - Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender
     
    2.170,95 kr.

    This study on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against social problems. It focuses on the complex ways that gender, race ethnicity, culture, class and sexuality shape women's political consciousness and organizing in the USA.

  • - Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context
    af Patricia Yancey Martin
    658,95 - 1.894,95 kr.

    This book takes a critical look at the organizations and officials that process rape victims to see how the structure of their respective organizations often prevent them from providing responsive care.

  • - Feminism, Self-Help and Postpartum Depression
    af Verta Taylor
    710,95 - 2.453,95 kr.

    Takes issue with the negative view of self-help dominating feminist scholarship by exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self help groups and feminism.

  • - Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty
    af Nancy A. Naples
    658,95 - 1.876,95 kr.

    Explores the connections among motherhood, work, politics and the community in low-income urban environments. It reveals the significant legacies of the social movements of the 1960s as well as the War on Poverty.

  • - Ideology, Experience, and Agency
     
    799,95 kr.

    This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.

  • - Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender
     
    740,95 kr.

    This collection on demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia and economic security, and focuses on the ways that gender, culture, class shape women's political consciousness in the USA.

  • - Transnational Perspectives
     
    2.016,95 kr.

    Looks at the state of feminist sociological gender and women's studies research in four regions of the world - Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, and Europe - as represented by many countries. This title features an essay that explains how social science research on women and/or gender issues has been shaped by economics, politics and culture.

  • - Birth in Transition in the United States
    af Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman & Bari Meltzer-Norman
    588,95 - 1.985,95 kr.

    Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. This book offers the voices of various practitioners, women trying to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision of birth.

  • af USA) Wright & Melissa (Pennsylvania State University
    562,95 - 2.138,95 kr.

    Presents a cross-disciplinary weave of poststructuralist feminism, Marxist theory, and ethnographic accounts of women workers for multinational firms in export-processing zones. This book tells a tale of stasis followed by decay and disposability, as women enter the workforce unskilled and are forced to leave before they acquire skills.

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