Women In Transition
Download Women In Transition full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Women In Transition ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Linda Rossetti |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2015-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137476559 |
In a recent study, ninety percent of women stated that they 'expect to transition' within the next five years. Rather than be frustrated, Rosetti argues that with thought and some elbow grease, transition is not only healthy but rewarding. Women and Transition is a step-by-step how-to guide that every woman can learn from.
Author | : Joyce Penfield |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1987-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780887064869 |
This collection of essays deals with the interplay of language and social change, asking the question: How can language and society be made gender equal? The contributors examine the critical role of language in the lives of white women and women of color in the United States. Since language pervades many dimensions of womens lives, this study takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues considered. The volume is divided into three sections. The first, Liberating Language, focuses on the active role women had in altering the extent of linguistic sexism in English during the 1970s. A second section, Identity Creation, deals with the alteration of that portion of language which serves to name women and their experiences. The final section, Women of Color, offers a rare and timely look at the particular problems confronted by minority women. It argues that women of color have different problems and different links to language than white middle-class women.
Author | : Ingrid Sandole-Staroste |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313012156 |
As the transition from state socialism to capitalism takes place in various parts of the world, the everyday experiences of those individuals who are primarily affected by the drastic changes are often overlooked. Here, the authentic voices of 52 East German women who lived under state socialism and under the current reunified capitalist system are presented and examined in an effort to underscore the complexity of the transition on the most personal level. East German women, the author asserts, have had to shift their identities, expectations, and actions from accommodating one type of patriarchy to another, experiencing less gender equality in their everyday lives under capitalism than under state socialism. The author concludes that the women of East Germany, and possibly other post-communist states in general, are worse off, having regressed to fit into a more primitive form of patriarchy. At the end of the Cold War, East German women's private lives and emotional capacities took on vital public significance, as ruling elites expected women to make significant contributions to the political and economic stability of the reunited country. To accomplish this stability, the social roles and spaces of East German women had to be redefined to fit into the West German model. Through the voices of these women, the author shows that they fared better in some respects under the old socialist system and that they were now subjected to new, and much more traditional, gender roles even as they were expected to work and advance within the more patriarchal system. By presenting and analyzing the thoughts and perceptions of these women, the author illustrates how they have resisted, to various degrees, complying with the demands made by the newly established institutions, which require them to relinquish the crucial part of their identity that was shaped by socialist norms and values.
Author | : Maxine Glaz |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780800624200 |
Greater knowledge of women's experience, this book argues, will enable all caregivers-whether female or male-to provide better pastoral care when the gender-specific presuppositions of that care are examined. Nine women collaborate to explore how women's life experience both necessitates and models a new, systematic pastoral care. It is the first book to address the broad range of women's pastoral care needs.
Author | : Dr Farideh Heyat Nfa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136871705 |
First book length treatment of Muslim Soviet Women Cross disciplinary - gender and women's studies, anthropology, Central Asia and Caucasus Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate level Offers a new dimension for specialists on gender relations in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, where previous work has mostly had a Russian perspective For Middle East specialists, provides insights into a region closed to researchers and its non-soviet neighbours for much of the 20th century
Author | : Barbara Cecil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781935952602 |
Google references 94,000,000 hits dealing with Women in Life Transitions.” What if the throes of change provide access to one's innate calling? Author Barbara Cecil's experience with thousands of women says that this is so, and that these women want help to align themselves with an inner truth. Coming Into Your Own: A Woman's Guide Through Life Transitions helps organize the chaos inherent in change. It gives readers a path that is rightly their own. Personal stories from women around the world give hope. Coming Into Your Own describes the inherent field of possibility” that lives just under the storylines of our lives. This invisible field contains the potential that is uniquely our own. The book also outlines specific, universal phases of transition in what Cecil has named the "Wheel of Change." She calls these phases Dwelling Places” because we must dwell in each one for as long as it takes to fulfill the promise of that stage. Identifying where we are on this map is greatly relieving. Once we know where we are, we understand how to make contact with the underlying field of possibility that will, in turn, inform our choices and give meaning to our lives.
Author | : Valentine M. Moghadam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Countries covered in the empirical case studies are Russia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech and Slovak republics, the former East Germany, Hungary, and Bulgaria.
Author | : Farideh Heyat |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Azerbaijan |
ISBN | : 9780700716623 |
This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan.
Author | : David Shapiro |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226750576 |
After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is now the second-largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. And as the city has grown-from around 300,000 people in the mid-1950s to more than five million today-it has experienced seismic social, economic, and demographic changes. In this book, David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe trace the impact of these changes on the lives of women, and their findings add dramatically to the field's limited knowledge of African demographic trends. They find that fertility has declined significantly in Kinshasa since the 1970s, and that women's increasing access to secondary education has played a key role in this decline. Better access to education has also given women greater access to employment opportunities. And by examining the impact of such factors as economic well-being and household demographic composition on the schooling of children, Shapiro and Tambashe reveal how one generation's fertility affects the next generation's education. This book will be a valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex and ongoing social, demographic, economic, and developmental changes in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.
Author | : Sylvia A. Chipp |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The changing roles and status of women in Asia are examined cross-culturally in this book, in an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining a geographical and a topical organization, the volume gives a cross section of developments among Asian women: in aspirations, in economic and political involvement, and in family and community activity. Based on field research, the contributions to this volume bring together the perspectives of political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The varied cultural and ideological contexts of Asian countries--including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholic Christianity, and the thought of Mao Tse-tung are considered comparatively. Among the nations discussed are mainland China, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Methodological challenges and opportunities are addressed: for instance, distinguishing between real and merely apparent change, avoiding fixation on female "stars" whose upper-class cosmopolitanism is quite atypical, and reading between the lines of official handouts. Each chapter of the book suggests topics for further research and sources for further reading. The necessity of women's full participation in national development has been recognized in UN-sponsored conferences in Bangkok (1957), Manila (1966), and Mexico City (1975). A growing number of college and university courses deal with the information and issues presented in this book.