Perspectives on Gender

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1. Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

   By Lynn Prince Cooke

   Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-99442-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil

   By Millie Thayer

   This ethnographic study 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. The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-96213-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives

   Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim

   This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current 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. The introductory essay to each region explains...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-95270-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States

   By Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

   Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the natural,"...

   2006 | 978-0-415-94663-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

   By Melissa Wright

   Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third...

   2006 | 978-0-415-95145-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   When Sex Became Gender

   By Shira Tarrant

   When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a...

   2006 | 978-0-415-95347-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System

   By Jennifer A. Reich

   In Fixing Families, Jennifer Reich takes us inside Child Protective Services for an in-depth look at the entire organization. Following families from the beginning of a case to its discharge, Reich shows how parents negotiate with the state for custody of their children, and how being held...

   2005 | 978-0-415-94727-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America

   By Margaret Nelson

   Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory...

   2005 | 978-0-415-94778-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Rape Work: Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context

   By Patricia Yancey Martin

   Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still find themselves the victims of what has been called a "second rape" by doctors, lawyers, judges, police, and administrators that process them. This...

   2005 | 978-0-415-92775-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity

    Edited by Elizabeth Bernstein, Laurie Schaffner

    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,...

    2004 | 978-0-415-94869-2 | Paperback (Routledge)