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11. Women, Employment and Organizations

    By Judith Glover, Gill Kirton

    This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint...

    Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
12. Reinventing Gender

    Women in Eastern Germany Since Unification

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Hildegard Maria Nickel

    Since the unification of the DDR and the GDR, women living in the former East Germany have lost many of the advantages that came with a planned economy. This collection of essays examines the reinvented meaning of gender and the experience of East German women since unification....

    Published November 14th 2002 by Routledge
13. Women's Health In Mainland Southeast Asia

    Edited by Andrea Whittaker

    A thought-provoking look at women’s health in developing nations! This book shows how war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval have all affected the choices Southeast Asian women make about their health and health care. When you read these first-person accounts...

    Published September 29th 2002 by Routledge
14. Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960

    Edited by David Doughan, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon

    Series: Woburn Education Series

    This dictionary is the first attempt to identify systematically the large heterogeneous group of women's organisations that grew up from the early 19th century up to the beginning of the modern women's movement, from women abolitionists and Chartists through Social workers, nurses, suffragists and...

    Published March 30th 2001 by Routledge
15. Midlife Lesbian Relationships

    Friends, Lovers, Children, and Parents

    By Marcy R Adelman

    What awaits lesbians at middle age?Midlife Lesbian Relationships explores the rich world of lesbian relationships at midlife, from dating through the loss of parents, and describes the central relationship between who we are as adults and our connections with friends, lovers, parents, and...

    Published August 17th 2000 by Routledge
16. Gender Inequalities in Southern Europe

    Woman, Work and Welfare in the 1990s

    Edited by Maria Jose Gonzalez, Teresa Jurado, Manuela Naldini

    Presenting studies of the situation on gender inequalities and associated pattern of work and welfare in all southern European countries, this work focuses on the interaction of the three major societal institutions - the State, the family and the labour market....

    Published February 27th 2000 by Routledge
17. Feminism, Identity and Difference

    Edited by Susan J. Hekman

    This study focuses on a set of issues at the forefront of feminist thought in the late 1990s: identity, difference and their implications for feminist politics. As feminism moves into an era in which differences among women, the multiple identities of woman and identity politics are all at the...

    Published September 29th 1999 by Routledge
18. Women and Social Class

    International Feminist Perspectives

    Edited by Pat Mahony, Christine Zmroczek

    This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis,...

    Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge
19. Women and AIDS

    Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

    By Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Linda K Fuller, Nancy Roth

    For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or...

    Published December 1st 1997 by Routledge
20. Menopause, Me and You

    The Sound of Women Pausing

    By Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Ann M Voda

    Menopause, Me and You will help you put menopause in proper perspective--as a normal and natural developmental process in the lives of women, not as a disorder or state that causes disease. This informative book gives you self-monitoring tools for collecting information and monitoring changes in...

    Published June 17th 1997 by Routledge