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Innovation is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth.
It is generally assumed to be gender neutral when, in fact, the
gendered construction of innovation has been traditionally
masculine. This Handbook explores the nexus between innovation and
gender by providing a wide range of studies from different
analytical and methodological perspectives and from various
regional and industry contexts and draws implications for a
gender-inclusive innovation policy. The multi-disciplinary group of
contributors discuss topics such as gender and innovation in new
and small businesses, and growth businesses; addressing innovation
in different organizational contexts ranging from public sector
health care to mining and forestry; researching gender in
innovation policy and in design and materiality. This Handbook will
be useful to researchers looking to understand parallels between
research on gender and innovation on one hand, and research on
gender and entrepreneurship or management on the other. It will
also be invaluable to students looking for an overview of research
in both areas. Contributors include: R. Aidis, G.A. Alsos, N.
Amble, E. Andersson, L. Andersson, P. Axelsen, K.-E. Berglund, T.
Bijedic, E. Boerjesson, S. Brink, K. Ehrnberger, K. Ettl, E.
Fernandes, L. Foss, C. Henry, U. Hytti, S. Ilstedt, A. Isaksson, M.
Johansson, A. Kovalainen, S. Kriwoluzky, T. Kvidal-Rovik, R. Leite,
M. Lindberg, B. Ljunggren, E. Ljunggren, S. Martins, S. Poutanen,
S.R. Sardeshmukh, R.M. Smith, L.K. Snerthammer, M. Tillmar, F.
Welter
In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is
conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara
Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the
prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female
reproductive body. With close reference to a number of classic
horror films including the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho,
Creed analyses the seven `faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic
mother, monstrous womb, vampire, witch, possessed body, monstrous
mother and castrator. Her argument that man fears woman as
castrator, rather than as castrated, questions not only Freudian
theories of sexual difference but existing theories of
spectatorship and fetishism, providing a provocative re-reading of
classical and contemporary film and theoretical texts.
How can we ignite faith in the next generation? We are all in a
relay race called life. The Baton is Truth that leads to faith in
Jesus Christ. Each generation receives the Baton from the previous
generation, who runs the race to the best of their ability and is
then responsible for passing it smoothly and securely to the next
generation. As parents, grandparents, and mentors, we must be
intentional as we seek to ignite faith in the next generation by
receiving, running with, and relaying the Truth that leads to
personal faith in Jesus Christ. Join Anne Graham Lotz and
Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright for this five-session study as they
demonstrate a family Bible study discussion, plus four ways to
ignite faith in the next generation, centered around your Witness,
Worship, Walk, and Work. Intentionally following Jesus in these
aspects of your daily life will make you more effective as you seek
to ignite faith in the next generation. This study guide includes:
Individual access to five streaming video talks from Anne and
Rachel-Ruth Weekly individual Bible studies Group discussion
questions A Facilitator's Guide Answers to frequently-asked
questions Sessions and video run times: Bible Study Workshop
(46:00) Our Witness (25:00) Our Worship (24:00) Our Walk (30:00)
Our Work (29:00) This study guide has everything you need for a
full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself-with
discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's
guide. An individual access code to stream all video sessions
online. (You don't need to buy a DVD!) Streaming video access code
included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2027. Code
may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not
be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet
connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by
law. Additional offer details inside.
*** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize*** In 1903 a Brahmin woman
sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British
gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar
plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed
no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her
great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to
solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also
left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues
traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also
excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female
coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or
outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their
epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin
either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with
sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When
they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the
machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned.
Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in
equal measure.It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between
Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and
their overlords.
Love should draw us together, not tear us apart. Is it unloving or
selfish to set a boundary? And what does the Bible instruct us to
do when a relationship is no longer safe or sustainable? Lysa
TerKeurst has asked these hard questions in the midst of her own
relational struggles. But after thousands of hours of counseling
intensives and theological research, Lysa has discovered that good
boundaries pave the road for the truest version of love to emerge
within the relationships that make up so much of who we are and
what we want the most. Building upon and further unpacking the
scriptural concepts in Good Boundaries and Goodbyes, this
six-session video Bible study (streaming code included) with Lysa
will equip you to: Determine the appropriate amount of personal and
emotional access someone has to you. Stop being misled and
emotionally paralyzed by wrongly interpreted or weaponized
Scriptures. Overcome the frustrating cycle of ineffective
boundary-setting with biblical principles and practical strategies
to help you communicate, keep, and implement healthier patterns. Be
equipped to say goodbye when a relationship has shifted from
difficult to destructive by studying three types of goodbyes found
in God's Word. Receive therapeutic and theological wisdom you can
trust directly from Lysa's Christian counselor, Jim Cress, and
Proverbs 31 Ministries' Director of Theology, Dr. Joel Muddamalle.
This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study
experience, including: The study guide itself-with a comprehensive
structure for group discussion time, video notes, and a leader's
guide. An individual access code to stream all six video sessions
online. And the physical DVD. Sessions and video run times:
Boundaries Aren't Just a Good Idea, They're a God Idea (22:00) A
Relationship Can Only Be as Healthy as the People in It (28:00)
Maybe We've Been Looking at Walls All Wrong (20:30) Old Patterns,
New Practices (21:30) People in the Bible Who Had to Say Hard
Goodbyes (30:30) You're Going to Make It (26:00) Streaming video
access code included. Access code subject to expiration after
12/31/2027. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this
package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this
package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited,
taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.
Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the
fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling
the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the
first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained
her physically. But that's not training for flames. That's not live
fire. California's fire season gets hotter, longer, and more
extreme every year - fire season is now year-round. Of the
thousands of firefighters who battle California's blazes every
year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are
inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those
firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing
Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York
Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women
who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to
captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp
commanders. The result is a rare, illuminating look at how the fire
camps actually operate - a story that encompasses California's
underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and
historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories,
relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and
physical intensity of firefighting. Lowe's reporting is a
groundbreaking investigation of the prison system, and an intimate
portrayal of the women of California's Correctional Camps who put
their lives on the line, while imprisoned, to save a state in
peril.
For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and
sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they'd ever
experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a
perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India
offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social
mores. The word 'memsahib' conjures up visions of silly
aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the
club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in
Britain's largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to
the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden,
accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across
dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording
their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was
disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for
colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to
'society'. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women
suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to
the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of
colonial women's lives across British India. Their honesty and
bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on
this historical world.
This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as
a "queer share," addressing the urgent need to redistribute
resources in a university world characterized by stark material
disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class
inequities. From across a range of precarious and relatively secure
positions, authors consider the changing politics of queer theory
and the shifting practices of queers who, in moving from the
margins toward the academic mainstream, differently negotiate
resources, recognition, and returns. Contributors engage queer
redistributions in all tiers of the class-stratified academy and
across the UK, the US, Australia, Armenia, Canada, and Spain. They
both indict academic hierarchy as a form of colonial
knowledge-making and explore class contradictions via
first-generation epistemologies, feminist care work in the
pandemic, Black working-class visibility, non-peer institutional
collaborations, and student labor. The volume reflects a commitment
to interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical approaches and
methodologies across anthropology, Black studies, cultural studies,
education, feminist and women's studies, geography, Latinx studies,
performance studies, postcolonial studies, public health,
transgender studies, sociology, student affairs, and queer studies.
This book is for readers seeking to better understand the broad
class-based knowledge project that has become a defining feature of
the field of queer studies.
Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the
routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent
partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors -
who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of
motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child,
Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary
approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which
expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life
writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships
that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women
who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women
who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach in
life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview,
re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage,
this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in
motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing
studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction
writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.
An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the
nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature
Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former
frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated
Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob
Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had
to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so
was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an
opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that
her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly
entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents
tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and
loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and
even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page
takes readers from Danica's lonely, closeted, and at times
operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a
party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more
than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about
how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be
in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone
else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for
politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not
just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for
office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as
Danica does.
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over
centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we
feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as
doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients,
women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Medicine's
history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women's
resistance, strength and incredible courage. In this
ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the
perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of
women's bodies, illness and pain. From the 'wandering womb' of
ancient Greece to today's shifting understanding of hormones,
menstruation and menopause, Unwell Women is the revolutionary story
of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical
misogyny. Drawing on Elinor's own experience as an unwell woman,
this is a powerful and timely expose of the medical world and
woman's place within it.
Too often our friendships with other women can be marked by drama,
competition, betrayal, and unforgiveness. As women, we can cause
one another deep pain, creating wounds in need of healing. But we
were made for connection and healthy friendships with other women
to cheer each other on and fulfill our God-breathed
purpose--together. Through vulnerable personal stories laden with
joy, heartache, mistakes, and lessons learned, Andi invites you on
a journey of navigating the complications that can come in
friendships with other women. With practical and biblical
applications throughout, this book will empower you to do the work
by first facing yourself and untangling the mess, then seeking
reconciliation for genuine connection, and building authentic
friendships, even when it's been painful or complicated in the
past.
"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a
nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards
Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of
the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil
War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so
well-known--even notorious--in her own lifetime. Theresa Kaminski
shares a different way of looking at the Civil War, through the
eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to
that of any man. She takes readers into the political cauldron of
the nation's capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if
notorious figure. Mary Walker's relentless pursuit of gender and
racial equality is key to understanding her commitment to a Union
victory in the Civil War. Her role in the women's suffrage movement
became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal,
only to have the medal reinstated posthumously in 1977.
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