Social change for women and children

The contributors to this volume consider policy implications of gender research with an emphasis on its relevance for children - particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings i...

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Other Authors Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000.
SeriesAdvances in gender research ; v. 4.
Subjects
Social change > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Women > Latin America > Social conditions.
Children > Social conditions.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849500326
1849500320
9780762305339
0762305339
ISSN1529-2126 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2126(1999)4
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 359 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: social change for women and children / Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
  • For god and community: the Unitarian female ministers' tradition and Chicago sociology, 1892-1918 / Mary Jo Deegan, Linda J. Rynbrandt
  • Gender inequality in employment and retirement income: effects of marriage, industrial sector, and self-employment / Richard Hogan, Carolyn C. Perrucci, Janet M. Wilmoth
  • Regulating knowledge: a critical institutional ethnography of the Indiana Manpower Placement and Comprehensive Training program (IMPACT) / C. Ditmar Coffield
  • Women and democratization: lessons from Latin America / Elizabeth Cagan
  • Gender and the demand for primary education in Cameroon / Martin E. Amin, George E. Fonkeng
  • Creating possibilities: how young immigrant Latinas envision their futures / Jeanne D. Weiler
  • Gender and youth mentoring / Katherine L. Hughes
  • Gender differences in aggressive and violent behavior among African-American preadolescents: a comparison of the effects of social and psychological factors / Lois Pierce, Nancy Shields
  • Girls and women growing together: integrating resources to develop the girls' circle programs / Norrine L. Ostrowski, Anna M. Silus, Beth Hossfeld, Giovanna Taormina
  • Gender-related content of animated cartoons, 1930 to the present / Hugh Klein, Kenneth S. Shiffman, Denise A. Welka
  • Children and gender: the case of feminist kids / Jessica Holden Sherwood, Barbara J. Risman.

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