Women's Lives
by Ferraro; Kathleen J.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-04-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Women's Livesexamines the full range and diversity of women's lives. Composed of 61 readings, this reader is divided into 11 sections: Perspectives on Women's Lives Girlhood & Adolescence Economica and Work Women and the Body Violence Sexuality Mothering and the Family Resistance & Social Change Women, Culture, & Creativity Migration & Globalization Spirituality & Religion
Author Biography
Kathleen J. Ferraro is a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She has been teaching about women’s lives since 1982, and is the former Director of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University. Her scholarship and activism have focused on intimate partner violence, particularly the relationship between women’s victimization and criminality. Her recent articles appear in Social Problems, Hypatia, Critical Sociology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Violence Against Women, and numerous anthologies. Her book, Neither Angels nor Demons: Women, Crime, and Victimization was published by Northeastern University Press in 2006, and was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.
Table of Contents
| ldquo;Thinking About Women: A Quarter Centuryrsquo;s View,rdquo | |
| ldquo;Learning from the Outsider Within The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought,"" | |
| ldquo;Great Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Basis of the Global Subordination of Women,""nbsp; Cynthia Fuchs Epstein | |
| ldquo;When I Was Growing Up,rdquo;nbsp; Nellie Wong | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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