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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
This book informs readers and expands their understanding about
specific challenges, issues, strategies, and solutions that are
associated with women academics during mid-career and later. The
book includes a variety of emerging evidence-based professional
practice and narrative personal accounts as written by
administrators, faculty, staff, and/or students - anyone keenly
aware of the challenges faced by women in the academy. This book is
ideal for instructors, administrators, professional staff, and
graduate students. Perhaps most importantly, the current
publication is both critical and timely given that there is a
paucity of literature on the challenges and opportunities for
mid-career women in higher education.
Fertile Visions conceptualises the uterus as a narrative space so
that the female reproductive body can be understood beyond the
constraints of a gendered analysis. Unravelling pregnancy from
notions of maternity and mothering demands that we think
differently about narratives of reproduction. This is crucial in
the current global political climate wherein the gender-specificity
of pregnancy contributes to how bodies that reproduce are
marginalised, controlled, and criminalised. Anne Carruthers
demonstrates fascinating and insightful close analyses of films
such as Juno, Birth, Ixcanul and Arrival as examples of the uterus
as a narrative space. Fertile Visions engages with research on the
foetal ultrasound scan as well as phenomenologies, affect and
spectatorship in film studies to offer a new way to look, think and
analyse pregnancy and the pregnant body in cinema from the
Americas.
There has been an increase in women entrepreneurs participating in
the growth of local, regional, national, and global economies.
While these women showcase crucial skills for strategic leadership
and strategy that can advance companies, they face cultural,
educational, social, and political barriers that impede their
development and participation within the global economy. Women
Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy
is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on
understanding the value of women entrepreneurs and the strategies
they can use on the economy and examines gender impact on strategic
management and entrepreneurship. While highlighting topics such as
emotional intelligence, global economy, and strategic leadership,
this book is ideally designed for managers, entrepreneurs,
policymakers, academicians, and students.
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