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Author: Tanja Müller
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9047407075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book captures the intriguing stories of different generations of women within the Eritrean nation building process. Theoretical analyses of political and social change are combined with extensive field research to provide a comprehensive picture of modernisation processes in Eritrea.
Author: Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521196655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author: Tanja R. Müller
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Published: 2003
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Ryan
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0307828557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.
Author: Katharine Glover
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1843836815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.
Author: Jessica O'Leary
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Published: 2020-07-31
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ISBN-13: 9781641892421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the diplomatic role of women in early modern European dynastic networks through the study of Aragonese marriage alliances in late fifteenth-century Italy and Hungary. It challenges the frequent erasure of dynastic wives from diplomatic and political narratives to show how elite women were diplomatically active agents for two dynasties. Chapters analyze the lives of Eleonora (1450-1493) and Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508), daughters of King Ferrante of Naples (1423-1494), and how they negotiated their natal and marital relationships to achieve diplomatic outcomes. While Ferrante expected his daughters to follow paternal imperatives and to remain engaged in collective dynastic strategy, the extent of his kinswomen's continued participation in familial projects was dependent on the nature of their marital relationships. The book traces the access to these relationships that enabled courtly women to re-enter the diplomatic space after marriage, not as objects, but as agents, with their own strategies, politics, and schemes.
Author: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-19
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0429753128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1981, this book is composed of papers that describe and analyse women’s careers in government, business, and the professions. It examines women’s access to and participation in elite careers in the US, and in selected countries of western and eastern Europe – Britain, France, West Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Yugoslavia – as well as in international organizations. This book was an outgrowth of a conference on ‘Women in decision-making elites in cross-national perspective,’ held at King’s College, Cambridge University, in July 1976. The countries represented were chosen because, although they were at similar stages of economic development, they exhibited differences in political structure, ideology, and tradition.
Author: Yvonne Gardner
Publisher: Tucker Publishing House, LLC
Published: 2022-04-02
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwaken the elite woman in you! The Making of an Elite Woman is a collection of short stories of women who overcame hardships, pain, and loss to arise in power. These stories are meant to inspire women that they can overcome any situation that comes their way. It is also written to encourage women to know that there is always someone willing to help them get back on their feet. The book contains inspiring stories by women who have made it. It's about how these women turned tragedy into triumph and pain into purpose. Each story has its own lesson for the readers. Empowered by Carol A. Dorsey Co-authors: Tanya Bankston, Yvonne Gardner, Felishia Ming-Bryant, Angie Lawson, Tracy Hickenbottom, Felicia Moses, Casita Adams, Neicy Johnson, Shonte Sisk, Tamika Williams, Quin Jones, Prussia Clayton, and Tara Tucker
Author: Fabio Giomi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9633863686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: • How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. • How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. • And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.
Author: Mino Vianello
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-10-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781412902670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do gender inequalities translate at the top of politics and business? Is the gender gap eliminated for the most influential players in industrial democratic society? Drawing on a sample from no less than 27 countries, a convincing and highly original picture is constructed that informs readers of career paths, values, social networks and gender battles for women elites. This informed and compelling analysis examines the demographic characteristics, family circumstances and career paths of a group of elite women. The book is noteworthy for being one of the first empirically based studies of women elites.
