This global survey starts from the assumption that the significant
transformations in women's lives deserve to be fully documented and
interpreted. Janet Mancini Billson and Carlyn Fluehr-Lobban tackle
the complexities of social change by using data from countries in
every world region to illustrate the most critical challenges that
women faced during the last century - challenges that are also
likely to shape the 21st century. Global knowledge and feminism
dovetailed in the 20th century, fed by international air travel,
telecommunications, the internet, and a growing awareness that
solving female oppression would improve the lot of all humankind.
The authors therefore adopt a strong international, comparative,
cross-cultural, and feminist framework that uncovers the
fundamental processes that promote, sustain, or degrade the female
condition. At the heart of Female Well-Being are case studies
written by country teams of scholars, educators, and policy
analysts, in Canada, The United States, Colombia, Iceland, the
United Kingdom, Croatia, Japan, Bangladesh, Thailand, South Africa,
and Sudan. Female well-being is measured by analysing trends in
infant mortality, maternal mortality, literacy, life expectancy,
education, work, income, family structure, and political power.
These trends are contextualised in the light of the century's major
events, legislative initiatives, social policies, and leadership,
to illustrate the processes that enhance, sustain, or detract from
the female condition. This book will be a critical resource for
academics, development experts and policy analysts.
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