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Social change for women and children [electronic resource] / edited by Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal.

Contributor(s): Demos, Vasilikie P | Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-Material type: Text

TextSeries: Advances in gender research ; v. 4.Publication details: Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000Description: 1 online resource (xix, 359 p.) : illISBN: 9781849500326 (electronic bk.) :; 1849500320 (electronic bk.) :Subject(s): Social change -- United States | Women -- United States -- Social conditions | Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions | Children -- Social conditions | Women -- United States | Women -- Latin America | Child | Social Change -- United States | Gender studies, gender groups | Social research & statistics | Social Science -- Gender StudiesAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Social change for women and children.DDC classification: 303.4 LOC classification: HM831 | .S63 2000Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Introduction: social change for women and children / Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal -- For god and community: the Unitarian female ministers' tradition and Chicago sociology, 1892-1918 / Mary Jo Deegan, Linda J. Rynbrandt -- Gender inequality in employment and retirement income: effects of marriage, industrial sector, and self-employment / Richard Hogan, Carolyn C. Perrucci, Janet M. Wilmoth -- Regulating knowledge: a critical institutional ethnography of the Indiana Manpower Placement and Comprehensive Training program (IMPACT) / C. Ditmar Coffield -- Women and democratization: lessons from Latin America / Elizabeth Cagan -- Gender and the demand for primary education in Cameroon / Martin E. Amin, George E. Fonkeng -- Creating possibilities: how young immigrant Latinas envision their futures / Jeanne D. Weiler -- Gender and youth mentoring / Katherine L. Hughes -- Gender differences in aggressive and violent behavior among African-American preadolescents: a comparison of the effects of social and psychological factors / Lois Pierce, Nancy Shields -- Girls and women growing together: integrating resources to develop the girls' circle programs / Norrine L. Ostrowski, Anna M. Silus, Beth Hossfeld, Giovanna Taormina -- Gender-related content of animated cartoons, 1930 to the present / Hugh Klein, Kenneth S. Shiffman, Denise A. Welka -- Children and gender: the case of feminist kids / Jessica Holden Sherwood, Barbara J. Risman.

Summary: The contributors to this volume consider policy implications of gender research with an emphasis on its relevance for children - particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings in the United States.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The contributors to this volume consider policy implications of gender research with an emphasis on its relevance for children - particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings in the United States.

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