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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies
The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict
setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak
infrastructure, and inadequate health services. With a focus on a
remote rural agrarian community in northern Uganda, Global Health
and the Village brings the complex local and transnational factors
governing women's access to safe maternity care into view. In
examining local cultural, social, economic, and health system
factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum also analyzes the
encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local
realities. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are
framed in international health interventions, Rudrum reveals that
the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are
based often result in the negative consequences in local
healthcare.
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even
a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica
encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and
ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires
nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their
entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred
Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban
Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the
lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the
city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official"
Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day
situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point,
delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home
to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing
and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together
contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race
to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and
cultural center.
Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has
increased significantly in most Western countries: in France,
Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnes Varda in
gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay
and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature
film. This new volume in the Thinking Cinema series draws on
feminist theorists and critics from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer
readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these
films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the
films convey women's lives and identities.Mainstream entertainment
cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women,
objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency,and avoiding the
most important questions about how cinema can 'do justice' to
female subjectivity: Kate Ince suggests that the films of
independent women directors are progressively redressing the
balance, and thereby reinvigorating both the narratives and the
formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist
philosophers to cast a new veil over such films as Sex Is Comedy,
Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank; and includes a
timeline ofdevelopments in women's film-making and feminist film
theory from 1970 to 2011.
Candid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that
shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on
the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New
York. The top three floors housed the Triangle Waist Company, a
factory where approximately 500 workers, mostly young immigrant
women and girls, labored to produce fashionable cotton blouses,
known as "waists." The fire killed 146 workers in a mere 15 minutes
but pierced the perpetual conscience of citizens everywhere. The
Asch Building had been considered a modern fireproof structure, but
inadequate fire safety regulations left the workers inside
unprotected. The tragedy of the fire, and the resulting movements
for change, were pivotal in shaping workers' rights and unions. A
powerful collection of diverse voices, Talking to the Girls:
Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire brings together
stories from writers, artists, activists, scholars, and family
members of the Triangle workers. Nineteen contributors from across
the globe speak of a singular event with remarkable impact. One
hundred and eleven years after the tragic incident, Talking to the
Girls articulates a story of contemporary global relevance and
stands as an act of collective testimony: a written memorial to the
Triangle victims.
Gender and diversity is a crucial area that requires more attention
in multiple academic settings. As more women progress into
leadership positions in academia, it becomes necessary to develop
solutions geared specifically toward success for females in such
environments. Challenges Facing Female Department Chairs in
Contemporary Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
is a key source on the latest challenges and opportunities for
women heading academic departments in university settings,
exploring the support available to female department chairs, and
first-hand experiences and lessons learned in field. Featuring
extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and
topics, such as gender challenges, management techniques, and
professional development, this book is a critical source for
academics, practitioners, and researchers.
Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North
Carolina's Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered
in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes,
romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi's
biography over time, blurring the line between reality and fiction.
The authors of this book, whose family has lived in the Deep River
area since the 18th century, are descendants of many of the people
who knew Naomi Wise or were involved in her murder investigation.
This is the story of a young woman betrayed and how her death gave
way to the folk traditions by which she is remembered today. The
book sheds light on the plight of impoverished women in early
America and details the fascinating inner workings of the Piedmont
North Carolina Quaker community that cared for Naomi in her final
years and kept her memory alive.
For many women in their 20's and 30's, the greatest professional
hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work
life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find
themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more
workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still
subject to a "parenting penalty" and high-profile conflicts between
parenting and the workplace are all over the news: from the
controversy over companies covering the costs of egg-freezing to
the debate over parental leave and childcare inspired by Marissa
Mayer's policies at Yahoo. Here's the Plan offers an inventive and
inspiring roadmap for working mothers steering their careers
through the parenting years. Author Allyson Downey,founder of
weeSpring, the Yelp for baby products," and mother of two young
children,advises readers on all practical aspects of
ladder-climbing while parenting, such as negotiating leave, flex
time, and promotions. In the style of #GIRLBOSS or Nice Girls Don't
Get the Corner Office, Here's the Plan is the definitive guide for
ambitious mothers, written by one working mother to another.
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