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Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders
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ISBN: 1282679031 9786612679032 0226257185 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."

Unpaid work and the economy : a gender analysis of the standards of living
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ISBN: 0415296943 0415407060 1134433557 1280175184 0203987284 1134433549 Year: 2003 Volume: 46 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy.The unified vision offered by this group of leading contributors ensures this book is a work of excellent quality. There is every chance it will become a seminal study on unpaid work and as


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The gender effect : capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development
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ISBN: 0520961625 9780520961623 9780520286382 0520286383 9780520286399 0520286391 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. University of California Press

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How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Using the Girl Effect, the philanthropic brand of Nike, Inc., as a central case study, the book examines how these corporations seek to address the problems of gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and women without transforming the structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to expand their legitimacy, authority, and reach while sidestepping contradictions in their business practices that often exacerbate conditions of vulnerability for girls and women. With a keen eye towards justice, author Kathryn Moeller concludes that these corporatized development practices de-politicize girls' and women's demands for fair labor practices and a just global economy.

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Poor girls --- Young women --- Corporate image --- Corporations --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Company image --- Corporate identity --- Industrial design coordination --- Women --- Young adults --- Girls --- Poor children --- Services for --- Management. --- Charitable contributions --- Public relations --- Economic conditions --- Girl Effect (Organization) --- Nike (Firm) --- NIKE, Inc. --- NIKE --- Nike World Headquarters --- Management --- E-books --- Sociology of the developing countries --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Developing countries --- India --- Africa --- United States --- Brazil --- United States of America --- business and economics. --- contemporary politics. --- economics. --- ending poverty. --- fair labor practices for women. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered poverty. --- girl effect nike. --- girl effect. --- global economy. --- global south. --- historical rise of girl effect. --- new capitalist frontiers. --- nike in global south. --- nike. --- poor women in global south. --- social justice. --- social science. --- third world women. --- women in business. --- women in the global south. --- womens issues. --- womens labor issues. --- womens studies. --- Feminism --- Capitalism --- Education --- Development policy --- Poverty --- Companies --- Policy --- Book --- Non-governmental organizations --- Adolescence --- Economy --- Empowerment

Improving women's health services in the Russian Federation : results of a pilot project
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ISBN: 0821341979 9786610004010 1280004010 0585183147 9781280004018 9780585183145 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Russia --- Maternal health services --- Women's health services --- Pregnant women --- Maternal Health Services. --- Quality of Health Care. --- Health Status. --- Women's Health. --- Women's Health Services. --- Expectant mothers --- Gravida --- Mothers --- Pregnancy --- Women --- Health Services, Woman's --- Services, Woman's Health --- Services, Women's Health --- Woman's Health Services --- Health Services, Women's --- Health Service, Woman's --- Health Service, Women's --- Health Services, Woman --- Health Services, Womans --- Health Services, Women --- Service, Woman's Health --- Service, Women's Health --- Services, Woman Health --- Services, Womans Health --- Services, Women Health --- Services, Womens Health --- Woman Health Services --- Woman's Health Service --- Women Health Services --- Women's Health Service --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- General Health --- General Health Level --- General Health Status --- Level of Health --- Overall Health --- Overall Health Status --- General Health Levels --- Health Level --- Health Level, General --- Health Levels --- Health Status, General --- Health Status, Overall --- Health, General --- Health, Overall --- Level, General Health --- Levels, General Health --- Status, General Health --- Status, Health --- Status, Overall Health --- Pharmacy Audit --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Pharmacy Audits --- Health Services, Maternal --- Services, Maternal Health --- Health Service, Maternal --- Maternal Health Service --- Maternal Health --- Maternal Welfare --- Health services for women --- Medical care --- Health services, Maternal --- Maternal and child health services --- Maternal and infant health services --- Maternal health care --- Maternity care --- Mother and child health services --- Perinatal care --- Safe motherhood programs --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive health services --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Statistics --- Health and hygiene --- Services for --- Russia. --- Russian Federation (Europe) --- Russian SFSR --- Russian S.F.S.R.

Onions are my husband : survival and accumulation by West African market women.
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ISBN: 0226107795 0226107809 9786612538711 0226107760 1282538713 9780226107769 9780226107790 9780226107806 9781282538719 6612538716 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics. Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens", Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.


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Big pharma, women, and the labour of love
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ISBN: 1442694106 9781442694101 9781442642478 1442642475 9781442611375 1442611375 1442694114 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto

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Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?

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Pharmaceutical industry --- Women --- Sexual disorders --- Sex disorders --- Sexual diseases --- Sex (Biology) --- Psychosexual disorders --- Female sexuality --- Drug industry --- Drug trade --- Medicine industry --- Medicines industry --- Prescription medicine industry --- Chemical industry --- Social aspects. --- Sexual behavior. --- Drug use. --- Treatment. --- Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological --- Drug Industry --- Sexual Behavior --- Sociological Factors --- Women's Health --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- Social Attributes --- Social Characteristics --- Social Traits --- Sociological Characteristics --- Sociological Phenomena --- Attribute, Social --- Attributes, Social --- Characteristic, Sociological --- Characteristics, Social --- Characteristics, Sociological --- Factor, Sociological --- Factors, Sociological --- Phenomena, Sociological --- Social Attribute --- Social Trait --- Sociological Characteristic --- Sociological Factor --- Trait, Social --- Traits, Social --- Industries, Pharmaceutic --- Industry, Drug --- Industry, Pharmaceutic --- Industry, Pharmaceutical --- Pharmaceutical Industry --- Drug Industries --- Industries, Drug --- Industries, Pharmaceutical --- Pharmaceutic Industries --- Pharmaceutic Industry --- Pharmaceutical Industries --- Girls --- Woman --- Women's Groups --- Girl --- Women Groups --- Women's Group --- Social aspects --- Sexual behavior --- Drug use --- Treatment --- drug therapy --- drug effects --- E-books --- asexuality. --- big pharma. --- female sexual dysfunction. --- heteronormativity. --- medicalization. --- queering heterosex. --- sexual pain. --- sexual pharmaceuticals. --- Industrie pharmaceutique --- Femmes --- Troubles sexuels --- Aspect social --- Sexualité --- Usage des drogues --- Traitement

Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France
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ISBN: 0520225295 0520925653 9786612356353 1282356356 1597347353 9780520925656 9781597347358 9780520225299 9781282356351 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) University of California Press

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In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as the French reputation for good taste. The female bourgeois consumer was a particularly charged figure because she represented consumption run amok. Critics feared that the marketplace compromised her morality and aesthetic discernment, with dire repercussions for domestic life and public order. Marianne in the Market traces debates about the woman consumer to examine the complex encounter between the market and the republic in nineteenth-century France. It explores how agents of capitalism-advertisers, department store managers, fashion journalists, self-styled taste experts-addressed fears of consumerism through the forging of an aesthetics of the marketplace: a "marketplace modernism." In so doing, they constructed an image of the bourgeois woman as the solution to the problem of unrestrained, individualized, and irrational consumption. Commercial professionals used taste to civilize the market and to produce consumers who would preserve the French aesthetic patrimony. Tasteful consumption legitimized women's presence in the urban public and reconciled their roles as consumers with their domestic and civic responsibilities. A fascinating case study, Marianne in the Market builds on a wide range of sources such as the feminine press, decorating handbooks, exposition reports, advertising materials, novels, and etiquette books. Lisa Tiersten draws on these materials to make the compelling argument that market professionals used the allure of aesthetically informed consumerism to promote new models of the female consumer and the market in keeping with Republican ideals.

Improving women's health in Pakistan
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ISBN: 0821342274 9786610004140 1280004142 058526094X 9781280004148 9780585260945 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Pakistan --- Health --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Sociology --- Population Characteristics --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Women's Health --- Social Conditions --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gender Specific Public Health --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Living Conditions --- Condition, Living --- Condition, Social --- Conditions, Living --- Conditions, Social --- Living Condition --- Social Condition --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- General Social Development and Population --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Health. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- Sociology. --- Population Characteristics. --- Social Sciences. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Women's Health. --- Social Conditions.

Still a man's world
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ISBN: 0520087860 0520087879 0520915224 0585129517 9780520915220 9780585129518 9780520087866 9780520087873 Year: 1995 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley, California

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Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams uncovers how men in four occupations--nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship, and social work--think about themselves and experience their work. Contrary to popular imagery, men in traditionally female occupations do not define themselves differently from men in more traditional occupations. Williams finds that most embrace conventional, masculine values. Her findings about how these men fare in their jobs are also counterintuitive. Rather than being surpassed by the larger number of women around them, these men experience the "glass escalator effect," rising in disproportionate numbers to administrative jobs at the top of their professions. Williams finds that a complex interplay between gendered expectations embedded in organizations, and the socially determined ideas workers bring to their jobs, contribute to mens' advantages in these occupations. Using a feminist psychoanalytic perspective, Williams calls for more men not only to cross over to women's occupations, but also to develop alternative masculinities that find common ground with traditionally female norms of cooperation and caring. Until the workplace is sexually integrated and masculine and feminine norms equally valued, it will unfortunately remain "still a man's world.".

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Sex discrimination against men --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Sex role in the work environment --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Discrimination a l'égard des hommes --- Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi --- Rôle selon le sexe dans le milieu de travail --- Stéréotypes --- Sex discrimination against men. --- Sex discrimination in employment. --- Sex role in the work environment. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology). --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Discrimination a l'égard des hommes --- Rôle selon le sexe dans le milieu de travail --- Stéréotypes --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Discrimination against men --- Men, Discrimination against --- E-books --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Sexual division of labor --- Women --- Sex discrimination --- Industrial sociology --- Sexual harassment --- Work environment --- Employment --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Stereotyping (Printing) --- Stereotyping --- Relief printing --- Electrotyping --- administration. --- administrative jobs. --- economic relations. --- elementary school education. --- elementary school teaching. --- employment. --- feminism. --- feminist perspective. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered expectations. --- gendered jobs. --- glass escalator effect. --- industrial relations. --- labor. --- librarians. --- librarianship. --- masculine values. --- masculinity studies. --- masculinity. --- men and masculinity book series. --- men. --- nurses. --- nursing. --- predominantly female jobs. --- social work. --- womens work. --- work. --- workplace.

Midlife and older women
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ISBN: 1435630912 9781435630918 9766401837 9789766401832 Year: 2006 Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica University of the West Indies Press

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Family Relations --- Middle Aged --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Aged --- Women --- Women's Health --- Life Change Events --- Family --- Population Characteristics --- Life Style --- Persons --- Health --- Adult --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Age Groups --- Psychology, Social --- Social Sciences --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Social Psychology --- Psychologies, Social --- Social Psychologies --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- General Social Development and Population --- Adults --- Normalcy --- Normality --- Normalities --- Person --- Life Style Induced Illness --- Lifestyle --- Life Styles --- Lifestyles --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- Extended Family --- Family Life Cycle --- Family Research --- Filiation --- Kinship Networks --- Relatives --- Family Life Cycles --- Family Members --- Family, Reconstituted --- Stepfamily --- Extended Families --- Families --- Families, Extended --- Families, Reconstituted --- Family Member --- Family, Extended --- Kinship Network --- Life Cycle, Family --- Life Cycles, Family --- Network, Kinship --- Networks, Kinship --- Reconstituted Families --- Reconstituted Family --- Research, Family --- Stepfamilies --- Analysis, Event History --- Event History Analysis --- Life Experiences --- Analyses, Event History --- Event History Analyses --- Event, Life Change --- Events, Life Change --- Experience, Life --- Experiences, Life --- Life Change Event --- Life Experience --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- Girls --- Woman --- Women's Groups --- Girl --- Women Groups --- Women's Group --- Elderly --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Middle Age --- Family Dynamics --- Family Relationships --- Family Relationship --- Dynamic, Family --- Dynamics, Family --- Family Dynamic --- Family Relation --- Relation, Family --- Relations, Family --- Relationship, Family --- Relationships, Family --- Quality of Life --- Social Environment --- Grandparents --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- Adverse Childhood Experience --- Childhood Experience, Adverse --- Childhood Experiences, Adverse --- Stress, Psychological --- Geriatrics --- Longevity --- Economics --- Middle-aged women --- Older women --- Employment --- Health and hygiene --- E-books --- Psychology, Perceptual --- Perceptual Psychology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Aged women --- Older people --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Behavior And Behavior Mechanism --- Lifestyle Factors --- Factor, Lifestyle --- Lifestyle Factor --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Life change events. --- Older people. --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Health of women --- Health education of women --- Events, Life change --- Experiences, Stressful life --- Life events, Stressful --- Life experiences, Stressful --- Stressful events --- Stressful life events --- Developmental psychology --- Experience --- Stress (Psychology) --- Health and hygiene. --- Hygiene --- Diseases

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