State Feminism, Women's Movements, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy (Women in Politics in Democratic States)

Drawing from the paintings of the world over well known students from the study community on Gender, Politics and the nation (RNGS), this examine bargains in-depth research of the connection among country feminism, women's hobbies and public coverage and locations them inside of a comparative theoretical framework.

Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies)

Via its concentrate on the African immigrant relatives, attractive the Diaspora: Migration and African households carves its personal area of interest at the migration discourse. It brings jointly the studies of African immigrant households as outlined by way of a variety of transnational forces. As an interdisciplinary textual content, attractive makes a convenient reference for students and researchers in associations of upper studying, in addition to for group provider prone engaged on range concerns.

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Few historians have contributed extra to our figuring out of the historical past of ladies, and women's impression on historical past, than Alice Kessler-Harris. writer of the vintage Out to paintings, she is likely one of the country's best students of gender, the economic climate, and public coverage. during this quantity, Kessler-Harris pierces the outside of arguments and laws to understand the preconceptions that experience formed the event of girls: a "gendered mind's eye" that has outlined what women and men alike consider as reasonable and fascinating.

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

This quantity analyses poverty and welfare reform inside of a context of low-wage paintings and the contours of the labour industry that welfare recipients are getting into. It goals to carry labour into the dialogue of welfare reform and creates a bridge among the domain names of labour and welfare.