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Examining the convergence of socialism and feminism in the German labor movement around the turn of the century, Jean Quataert probes the competing identities and loyalties of class and sex and the problems their adherents faced in reconciling the two. By focusing on the women's movement in particular, she expands our understanding of the German So

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Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This book is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women.

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Throughout history, remarkable women have taken breathtaking risks, and overcome tremendous societal, gender and racial barriers to make their indelible mark on society and culture, with impacts that still reverberate today. But most of these important stories have not been celebrated until now.

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The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have all undergone years of adversity and decline, their economic bases having been badly damaged by structural changes in the national economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector. In situations like these, can local development effort

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In this study, Kenneth MacKinnon suggests that ultimately masculinity is no straightforward actuality. Instead, several aspects of masculinity are ideals rather than social realities. These ideals might be best understood as forming a near-impossible version of masculinity to which males in society are encouraged to aspire if they want to be real men'.

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This is a study of change and continuity in the iconographics of art and the representations of artists during the sixteenth century in Western European traditions, especially Italy and the Netherlands. -- .

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This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the transition from the modern to the postmodern period.

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It chronicles the course of the women's movement and women's organizations still active in the political arena and puts forth an alternative plan to involve women in the reconstruction process in both urban and rural areas.

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Presents evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation.

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Challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power.

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A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime.

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Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective.

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The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies of reproductive bodies and behaviours.

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My audience is of dreamers, those that can understand the reasons why. Those that can feel the beauty because of the pain and rise above the shadows of hypocrisy. The ones that know change is needed. The goddess is the one, blamed, abused, bullied the onslaught of male impregnation of division.

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This unique research tool will lead researchers and practitioners to published materials and documents that can provide answers needed for making informed decisions regarding issues related to today's children.

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This text is the result of a project to locate the surviving documentation of the Turner movement, a secular organization in German immigrant communities in America, from the mid-19th century to World War I. It shows the extent of the movement and the range of its interests and activities.

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This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. The use of the Chicana feminist perspective lends not only a gender role analysis, but also demonstrates the structure and function of the balance of personal and social control within the context of the community.

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This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. The use of the Chicana feminist perspective lends not only a gender role analysis, but also demonstrates the structure and function of the balance of personal and social control within the context of the community.

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This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist.