Social change for women and children

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research ; v. 4.
• Θέματα: Social change > United States.; Women > United States > Social conditions.; Women > Latin America > Social conditions.; Children > Social conditions.; Women > United States.; Women > Latin America.; Child.; Social Change > United States.; Gender studies, gender groups.; Social research & statistics.; Social Science > Gender Studies.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.