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Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2017

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-23
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.

Women and Girls Rising
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Women and Girls Rising

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improvements in the status of women and girls – however worthy and important in their own right – also drive the prosperity, stability, and security of families, communities, and nations. Yet despite many indicators of progress, women and girls everywhere – including countries of the developed world – continue to confront barriers to their full and equal participation in social, economic, and political life. Capturing voices and experiences from around the world, this work documents the modern history of the global women’s movement - its many accomplishments and setbacks. Drawing together prominent pioneers and contemporary policymakers,...

An Open Secret
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

An Open Secret

An Open Secret traces the history of women's experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women's personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.

The Health Of Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

The Health Of Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect women’s health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe. The contributors assess the reduced quality of life for women and the often unacknowledged contributions of women and girls as the backbone of production in both developing and developed countries. Synthesizing perspectives of policymakers and practitioners, researchers and scholars, The Health of Women urges major new initiatives to understand and improve women’s health, taking into account biological elements such as the life cycle of women as well as cultural constraints and socioeconomic realities.

Black-and-White Thinking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Black-and-White Thinking

A groundbreaking and timely book about how evolutionary biology can explain our black-and-white brains, and a lesson in how we can escape the pitfalls of binary thinking. Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. Though the world was arguably simpler back then, it was in many ways much more dangerous. Not coincidentally, the binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats and respond to changes in the sensory environment—a drop in temperature, the crack of a branch—was essential to our survival as a species. Since then, the world has evolved—but we, for the most part, haven’t. Confronted with a panopl...

Running the Obstacle Course to Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Running the Obstacle Course to Sexual and Reproductive Health

These four multi-disciplinary studies focus on sexual and reproductive health advocacy and programs in Latin America. Based on original research and the author's 25 years of experience working in the region, the text illuminates the political, cultural, and organizational dynamics that pose an obstacle course to sexual and reproductive health—dynamics that veterans of the culture wars in many other regions of the world will recognize. One groundbreaking study of advocacy in Colombia and Chile for the legalization of abortion and divorce discusses the double discourse system that keeps repressive laws in place and punishes public opposition to political norms that are based on religious doc...

Visions of a New Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Visions of a New Earth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Brings together world religion scholars and creative international economists to address the current eco-crisis.

Conceiving Sexuality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Conceiving Sexuality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 1995. After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture. The continued development of feminist theory, the emergence of gay and lesbian studies, and the impact of the international AIDS pandemic have combined to focus new attention on the ways in which gender and sexuality are shaped in different social and cultural settings, and on the complex interactions betwen sexuality and health in the late twentieth century. Edited by two of the leading figures in contemporary sex research, ConceivingSexuality brings together the contributions of writers ...

Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions

  • Categories: Law

Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as the...