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This introductory text covers various aspects of human rights, including international human rights law, the role of the UN system, the Indian constitution and the human rights movement in India, gender justice and human rights, as well as environmental law, and consumer law. It includes a glossary and suggestions for further reading. ... Read more

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This book discusses the emergence of white-collar work for women and the motivations for organisation and political attitudes of German women clerks and white-collar workers before the First World War. In addition, the book explores issues concerning women's work and labour-market situations, women's class positions and their political mobilisation. The introductory chapters examine the situations of clerks and the home and family circumstances of women clerks. Dr Adams goes on to discuss the nature and limits of 'feminism' in Wilhelmine society, the early years of female clerks' associations, and the interrelationship of women's work and home roles, behaviours and attitudes. Finally, two case studies examine in depth the conflicts of class and gender. Before the First World War, Dr Adams concludes, women defined themselves by gender and by class; they sought fulfilment in the public and the private sphere; but they found it impossible to be both 'woman' and 'worker'. ... Read more

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Combines theoretical debates with a wide range of original empirical research, introducing new material on gender identity and the performance of masculinity and feminity in rural areas, contributing to the development of existing theory in this area. ... Read more

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Explores some of the crucial psychological, behavioural, cultural, exual and political factors which may contribute to the gender specificity of eating disorders. ... Read more

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Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of women's bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology.

The book also examines women as producers of science and technology, both as professional scientists and as unskilled workers. It concludes by looking at women as consumers of technology and science - domestic technology and computers - and at their relationship with Nature. Inventing Women raises the question of whether feminism can produce not only a critique of science and technology, but a new feminist science and technology, and the systems and artefacts that go with it.

This volume includes contributions which represent some of the best feminist scholarship in their fields. It can be used as a textbook and it will appeal to a wide audience in feminism and women's studies, sociology, education, science and technology, and medicine and health. ... Read more

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Karsten provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of gender-related issues and their impact on management. She combines theoretical and practical information about topics such as women's workplace roles, power and tokenism, sexual harassment, diversity management, networking, and stress and time management. Karsten incorporates experiences unique to women of color and information on sex-role stereotypes and socialization processes that have affected both females and males. ... Read more

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Communicates the findings of a recent Council of Europe seminar on equal opportunities in primary schools, where teachers from 14 European countries considered the range of equal opportunities projects and initiatives within their national education systems. ... Read more

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This major introductory textbook in social policy breaks new ground in arguing for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice. ... Read more

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Using empirical evidence drawn from interviews, this book contrasts the different life courses of three generations of women, along with their experiences of, and attitudes toward, a range of gender issues and to the organized womens movement. Drawing on Karl Mannheim's argument that an individual's location in historical social structures acts upon their outlook or world views, it is shown that women of different ages do not share the same gendered life courses due to differing cohort memberships and this leads them to interpret, define and give meaning to gender issues and to feminism in varied and contrasting ways. In focusing on age, the book explores an important social division and dimension of "difference" between issues and feminism, it examines the neglected area of responses both to changes in the gendered life course and to key a instigator of those changes. ... Read more

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Within one generation the lives and living conditions of people in Southern Africa have undergone rapid transformation through urbanisation. Gender Research on Urbanisation, Planning, Housing and Everyday Life (GRUPHEL) is a research programme to understand and analyse the role played by gender in relation to processes of urbanisation, planning, housing and everyday life. There is a large body of gender research in Africa but contributions that relate to the GRUPHEL theme are still few. The papers which are contained in this volume use the gender concept to emphasise the social construction of difference as opposed to the biological difference. The GRUPHEL studies have all been situated in the special socio- economic, and political context of Southern Africa in the mid- nineties, and based on empirical material. Many of the papers illustrate how vulnerable groups in the urban areas strive to cope with and challenge changing traditional gender roles in periods of economic decline and social crisis. The papers also illustrate the shortcomings of the state in organising the societies so that the most basic needs are met for all social groups. ... Read more