Social change for women and children

Social change for women and children

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000.
Series:Advances in gender research ; v. 4.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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