Las Mujeres Invisibles/invisible Women
Title | Las Mujeres Invisibles/invisible Women PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Ann Navarro |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Group identity |
ISBN |
Women's Activism and Globalization
Title | Women's Activism and Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy A. Naples |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004-04-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135955166 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Transformations
Title | Transformations PDF eBook |
Author | Torry D. Dickinson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317250206 |
Bringing feminist and world-systems theories together, this analytic anthology examines the rise of intersecting, women-centered movements that contribute to alternative development and the rise of new societies. The authors consider feminist movements and humanistic transformations that create new work and market relations, promote democracy and equality, redefine gender and sexuality, regenerate the environment, and construct nonviolent and peaceful relations. At the end of each chapter, articles by feminist theorists and practitioners on these topics are included to illustrate the analysis. Using a global, historical framework, the book shows how diverse, multicultural, and international feminist ideas can be brought together to provide a comprehensive and differentiated understanding of change.
Invisible Women
Title | Invisible Women PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Criado Perez |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1683353145 |
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Transcultural Encounters amongst Women
Title | Transcultural Encounters amongst Women PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Carty |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443822396 |
Traditionally women have found recourse in artistic means to interrogate change and upheaval. This volume explores the experiences of women from Spain, Portugal and Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who themselves have crossed cultural boundaries or have described this experience in their literature and film. Areas investigated in this collection of essays include the experience of the exiled or the immigrant and their personal or collective response to displacement and adaptation: the transcultural potential of cyberspace for women, how patterns and styles of the fashion industry have crossed borders, how women have crossed canonical cultural boundaries in search of identity and meaning, how global cultural influences have manifested in Hispanic and Lusophone cultural practices and production by or about women, and the challenging question of whether canine writing can be considered a branch of feminist theory. Common to most of the essays are the central issues of identity, values, conflict and interconnectedness and an analysis of the patterns that result from the transcultural encounter of these aspects.
The Inclusion of Other Women
Title | The Inclusion of Other Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lena de Botton |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2005-11-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1402036817 |
Why we are the “other women” This book recognizes a reality, our reality, that of the “other women”. Why are we the “other women”? Because we are women who, given the fact that we have not had the chance to obtain an academic education, were silenced and have remained outside of the spaces for public debate about women. This exclusion is worse if we are immigrants or belong to an ethnic minority. Those of us who are housewives, domestic workers or factory workers, because we do not have academic degrees, do not have spaces in which our voices can be heard, where we can say what we want. At times women whose voices are heard, because they have been able to go to university or have been leaders in the feminist movement, speak for all of the other women who have not been able to get a formal education, without asking us what it is we really want or think. Through our participation in educational and cultural centers and associations, many of us have formed associations and women’s groups. In this way, we are creating spaces where we can discuss issues that we are concerned about: solidarity among women, demands for better widows’ pensions, exploitation of domestic workers, etc. And we are organizing ourselves to get our voices, demands and opinions about these issues out there into the public debate.
Handbook on Gender and Violence
Title | Handbook on Gender and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Laura J. Shepherd |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1788114698 |
Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts and offers a range of disciplinary perspectives. This comprehensive volume connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms of violence across three discrete but interrelated sections: concepts, representations, and contexts.