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Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic -- The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic -- Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women's Political Status in the Age of Jackson -- "Co-Laborers in the Cause": Women in the Ante-bellum Nativist Movement -- "Moral Suasion Is Moral Balderdash": Women, Politics, and Social Activism in the 1850s -- Harlots or Heroines? -- Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth- Century South -- The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920 -- Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 -- Fighting for a Future -- Women and the Socialist Party -- Other Socialists: Native-Born Immigrant Women in the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917 -- Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests -- Defining Socialist Womanhood: the Women's Page of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1919 -- Socialism and Women in the United States, 1900-1917.

"Women and Leadership explores the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in America's leadership roles. Drawing on comprehensive research and a survey of prominent women leaders, the book describes the reasons for gender inequity in leadership and identifies compelling solutions. It is essential reading for anyone interested in leveling the playing field for women"--

1. An Overview: What We Know About Incarcerated Women and Girls -- 2. Pop Culture and Perception -- 3. Female Perpetrators: Risks, Needs, and Pathways to Offending -- 4. Criminal Justice Processing and Procedure, Generally and for Justice-Involved Women -- 5. The Female Prison Experience -- 6. Justice-Involved Girls: Women, Health and Pregnancy, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Concerns -- 7. Sexuality and Gender: Locked In, and Out -- 8. Intersectional Pathways: The Role Victimization Plays in Women's Offending and in Prisons -- 9. Educational and Vocational Programming in Women's Prisons: History, Gender Disaparities, and Promising Progress -- 10. Women Working in Male Prisons and Jails -- 11. Concluding Remarks.

"Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life"--P. [4] of cover

Reviews Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Sue Gutteridge, The Imprisonment of Women. New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1986; and Nicole Hahn Rafter, Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. (PAS)

This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the evolving challenges women face in attaining--and thriving in--leadership positions. Contributors add new voices to emerging and familiar topics, including leadership styles and traits, growth and learning experiences within career paths, mentoring and entrepreneurial aspects of leadership, and workplace and societal resistance to women in roles of power. Representative first-person accounts shed significant light on real-world double standards and double binds (including the unique obstacles faced by minority women), why the glass ceiling still exists, and steps still needed to dismantle it. Coverage also addresses related legal issues, such as the ongoing fight against pay inequities and conflicts between the DeVos rules and Title IX regulations in the schools. Included among the topics: · · Turn ah-ha moments into pivotal learning. · The important role of women in social entrepreneurship. · Focus group becomes support group: women in educational leadership. · Issues confronting women leaders in academia: the quest for equality. · Leadership means using the courts to demand equal enforcement of and protection for women's constitutional and civil rights. · Organizations concerned with women and leadership. Whether one's interest is local or global, scholars and students in courses on leadership, career development, and women's studies will find Women and Leadership inspiring and stimulating in myriad domains, from research and business to politics and policy.

Although women go to work in increasing numbers in the US (55% of women aged 18-64), they are still paid less than men, earning about 60% of what men earn in similar jobs. Women also have more limited occupational choices & less mobility than men, & tend to be concentrated in clerical work, sales, & service occupations (eg, waitresses, hairdressers). Status jobs involve professional commitment, & according to cultural mores, women must be committed to the family first. Women are typically found in work in which they can be easily replaced; on-the-job training for women is not comparable to that given men. Sex-typing of professions affects a field's prestige, & "feminine" professions invite discrimination. F academics compete favorably with men in prestige & salary in scientific & mathematical disciplines, but not so favorably in the humanities, where their numbers are greater. D. Dunseath.

This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that women in physics careers face. Looking at all of these topics with one eye on the progress that the field has made in the past few years, and another on those things that we have yet to address, the book surveys the most current research as it tries to identify strategies and topics that have significant impact on issues that women have in the field